Abdominal pain versus lower/rectal pain - help i'm confused!
#249309 - 02/28/06 07:00 PM
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Aubs
Reged: 02/28/06
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my doctor has just diagnosed me with ibs after a long period of tests and ruling things out so I do feel confident that she did not miss anything. however, after looking at this site and reading comments on the board i am confused about my diagnosis! while i suffer from all of the other symptoms of ibs mentioned here, i rarely have crippling abdominal pain. my pain has been almost entirely in my lower back in what feels to be my rectum/that general area. if i have my pain here and not in my abdomen does this mean that perhaps the doctor was wrong and i do not in fact have ibs? do other people with ibs experience pain here? 
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Hi, and welcome to the boards.
IBS is different for different people, there is not any set rules of where or how pain should be. IBS is a catch all phrase/diagnosis the medical community uses when they don't know what's wrong with you, but they've ruled out other illnesses like Chrons, etc.
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When I have a really bad reaction to some food I can get the abdominal cramping and pain, but when I came to this website almost all of my discomfort was lower/rectal pain. Everyone is different around here but you are not alone in this location of pain. When I stray into "trigger land" I pay with that rectal pain first. Good luck on the diet and sure hope you see the success I have when I carefully follow Heather's advice.
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Hi Aubs, If your pain in the lower back is on the left side,
then that is a result of stool and gas pressure from your
sigmoid colon. A vast majority of IBS-C's get that. Your
rectum is not near the lower back, it's just above the anal
sphincter, and rectal pain is a literal pain in the ass, not
your back. -Bob
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