I've been having stomach problems for about a year now and they are as follows:
1. Frequent stomach pain, sometimes even upon waking that would be rated a 10 out of the 1/10 scale. This pain comes unexpectedly and a BM doesn't follow it. I've recently postulated that it could be severe gas, but gas isn't an evident cause, to me.
2. Everyday, I have a normal bowel movement once, but then have one or two that follow a few hours later that are gassy and watery/oily, there is not alot of substance to the latter. I know that pencil thin fecal matter is a sign of something serious, but I've never had pencil thin fecal matter, just the regular BM and then oily/gassy ones that follow.
3. I oftentimes think I have GERD, simply because I have horrible acid reflux, sometimes I vomit from that...but I didn't think any kind of acid reflux would irritate my intestines/colon the way they have been bothered.
4. My pain sometimes comes in spasms in my stomach, it radiates from where my testicles are up to my abdomen. This has bothered me because the thought of prostate cancer is extremely unnerving...but I don't see how these other symptoms would fit in. I've traveled quite a bit over the course of the past few years, to Central America/Europe/Jamaica...so, perhaps it's some kind of bug I've picked up...but it's really just become evident over the course of the past 12 months.
I don't have health insurance, I really don't have that much money right now at this point in time to get it...I was just wondering if this could be IBS, I do have severe social anxiety, but my stomach acts up even when I'm not anxious.
I don't know what to do, I just want an idea of what I'm dealing with here and the seriousness of it. Also, I was wondering if there happens to be any kind of over the counter medication that would alleviate my symptoms...zantac, for some reason, makes me extremely nauseated.