I am desperate now. Lately my IBS is really affecting me. My stomach is now distended and I am gaining weight like crazy. I am not eating any differently and exercising does not help. The weight gain is sudden. Does anyone else get these symptoms and do you have any tips. I have heard that colon cleanses help. Well mainly colonics. What do you think?

Some added symptoms that I forgot to mention is nausea and I keep getting headaches and recurring yeast infections. Also, I feel tired all the time. Please help...its really starting to get to me

Tummytum,
Hi, are you going to a doctor for the IBS? This is something that you should ask your doctor about. They will know what tests to do and how to treat your symptoms. I hope you can relax and calm yourself until you can get an appt. Take care and Hope you feel better soon.

Tummytum
I agree with cac, got to a gastro doc, make sure of the diagnosis,, seriously.. You dont need to try and diagnos yourself.. They need to rule out any other kind of problems.. I thought i had ibs to, and finally after losing 20 pds i couldnt afford to lose, my husband made me go to gastro doc.. Come to find out i had microscopic colitis... so please have this checked,, take care Nelly

Hi Tummytum,

The symptoms that you are experiencing sound like you have a CANDIDA problem. I was suffering with IBS for many many years I had gone to my medical doctors, and two gastro. doctors they all told me the same thing. The gastro doctors could not find anything except IBS and they told me I had to live with this problem. I was like you sick and tired of the body symptoms so I went to a nutritional doctor and that is where I found my answer to my problems.

I had a severe CANDIDA problem and my bad bacteria was way of of balance. You have to take a bowel test to check for candida (overgrowth of yeast) to really find out if you have it. Then the doctor will put you on a schedule to kill the candida and get your good bacteria back up. You also have to go and stay on a candida diet so you keep it under control.

But I would first go to a gastro doctor and see what they tell you. If they find nothing and say your problem is IBS then find a nutritional doctor, take the bowel test and then you will be on the road to recovery.

Dona Dry