Of course I have myself all freakied out, even though this is nothing new. My stools have been wierd, my tummy doing flips for years, since I was a teenager. I will be 32 this year.
Anyway- I just started going to therapy for GAD at the beginning of March. Have not started meds yet, but I am at the point where it is being considered and will probably happen soon.
Over the past few weeks, I have noted that my bowel movements have become soft and come out in small pieces. There were days were it was just total diarrhea, 5-10 times a day. Other days, just 3-4 BMs in the morning (soft and small pieces) and nothing else until nighttime. This week on and off abdominal pain that is often just above my belly button, but does not discriminate- it can happen to the left or right as well. Sometimes I feel it in my chest a bit. Not a bad pain at all, it is "just there." And then my neck and back muscles get all tight and tension filled. Over the past couple of days, the abdominal pain has DECREASED alot. Mainly the neck and back tension now. I am not constitpated, but I do not need to go as often and when I do it takes its time coming out. Comes out in logs that are sometimes thin, others times closer to normal diameter. In between there might be a softer, stringy one. And oh, I also seem to have freqeunt urination along with this. And double-oh, not to be too graphic, but I find blood on the toilet paper and I KNOW where it is coming from. Since I am wiping so much I am making little tiny tears or cuts. I can feel them. I can touch them with the TP and see exactly what is happening, but yet I STILL WORRY about that. Insane!! CRAAAAAAAZZZZZZYY!!!
Anyway, do others experience this? And do you see it coincide with your anxiety?? Like yesterday and today - I wake up feeling good. I am like, "okay, gonna be a good day today," but then the smallest thing (a little twinge of pain, or not even pain, just anything) gets my mind moving and before you know it things get sore, bowels in an uproar, and I am on here googling every digestive problem in the book. Even using those freaking symptom checkers online.
I just want to know if you guys have experienced the same- and if it has everything to do with my anxiety- and if it sounds a whole lot like IBS???? I await some replies!
