This sounds exactly like me, what was your diagnosis actually called and if i might ask, how much olive oil to try at first? also did you ever find a cure and what was it. thankyou. 

p.s. i cant tell you how much finding your post has helped me not feel alone. 

Hi

I'm so sorry, I've just seen this now

I've not been at my PC as I've had the virus so I'm all over the place at the moment

I'd try a teaspoon at first

But in desperation I have taken tablespoons full more than once

Even eating a large bag of popcorn and drinking as much oil as I could. 

It seemed to pop things back into shape for a time and I had no pressure build up for months

I'd advise everyone now to take photos of any lumps and so on.

As the NHS will just say IBS 

I get pain in the side and pain in my back shoulder blade when I blow up

One thing I've found that triggers it is if I lift or push anything, even reaching up to pull a window

Then a day or so later I blow up

The fix for me is a real colonoscopy, if done right and with care it can put it all back in to shape.

But sadly I'm having to wait (the last time I had one I knew within hrs all was back to normal)

I've had IBS and can set it off at will just by eating chocolate, but this is not the same

For me IBS is more like a belly ache.

One thing I've found to stop any IBS, if anyone sometimes gets it from food, say like chocolate is to try 1/2 a sachet of fiber gel before food.

Fiber gel seems to mix well with food and stops it aggravating you insides

I'd call it a normalizer over a laxative or something that bills up and slows things down

so for me fiber gel and olive oil have helped me so much

Sometimes helping in days other times over a week

A question for you, does your insides feel hard sometimes with back pain or pain in either side at about elbow hight?

Take care, life can be hell when you suffer pain

Karl

Ps sorry I'm still recovering from covid so I'm all over the place and this Amazon fire tablet doesn't help, they made it good at shopping, not so good at the rest

Hi

I'm so sorry, I've just seen this now

I've not been at my PC as I've had the virus so I'm all over the place at the moment

I'd try a teaspoon at first

But in desperation I have taken tablespoons full more than once

Even eating a large bag of popcorn and drinking as much oil as I could. 

It seemed to pop things back into shape for a time and I had no pressure build up for months

I'd advise everyone now to take photos of any lumps and so on.

As the NHS will just say IBS 

I get pain in the side and pain in my back shoulder blade when I blow up

One thing I've found that triggers it is if I lift or push anything, even reaching up to pull a window

Then a day or so later I blow up

The fix for me is a real colonoscopy, if done right and with care it can put it all back in to shape.

But sadly I'm having to wait (the last time I had one I knew within hrs all was back to normal)

I've had IBS and can set it off at will just by eating chocolate, but this is not the same

For me IBS is more like a belly ache.

One thing I've found to stop any IBS, if anyone sometimes gets it from food, say like chocolate is to try 1/2 a sachet of fiber gel before food.

Fiber gel seems to mix well with food and stops it aggravating you insides

I'd call it a normalizer over a laxative or something that bills up and slows things down

so for me fiber gel and olive oil have helped me so much

Sometimes helping in days other times over a week

A question for you, does your insides feel hard sometimes with back pain or pain in either side at about elbow hight?

Take care, life can be hell when you suffer pain

Karl

Ps sorry I'm still recovering from covid so I'm all over the place and this Amazon fire tablet doesn't help, they made it good at shopping, not so good at the rest