My OH suffers from digestive and bowel problems back in the day they called a spastic colon, I have lost count of the numerous investigations he has, including CT scan and ultrasound.
After numerous camera up the bottom procedures (and down the throat) not forgetting the bowel cancer kit, where you have to take the sample yourself and send them off, they have found nothing! but still he is plagued which his problems and sometimes very bad pain.
You should see cabinet of stuff he has been prescribed, quite honestly I don't there is much else they can give him to relieve his problems.
He was first diagnosed with a "spastic colon" when he was 18, its called IBS now but that is an umbrella name for it because Doctors don't really know what cause some people to have these problems, when every thing else is ruled out.
He is surprised when I make him suck a few Defaltines because sometimes it works ( only sometimes though), gas and bloating can be every painful and can even cause palpitations, still at a loss on how to help him with the constipation side and as our pharmacist said he has been given everything for good clear out but still nothing. I have hinted at Colonic irrigation but he won't hear of it
there is something called "Fleet" that they give him before the colonoscopy's that does the job, I tell him that he must be the only person who is not by bothered sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy procedures.
Stress doesn't help at all, they do say that the gut is the second brain, they share similar cells.
Wish I had the answer.
