Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Exercise works your gut muscles just like your arm/leg muscles...

and it is a GI stimulant. For some IBS folks, exercise, especially if it's vigorous and jolting (like running), can bring on diarrhea if they're prone to that. And if they have pain with diarrhea, then the exercise can trigger that too. Yoga is usually a big exception to this.

As for non-vigorous movement, like just plain walking, triggering stand-alone pain and not diarrhea...well, that doesn't sound like IBS to me. It almost sounds like some type of isolated muscle issue, but I'm grasping at straws here.

Did you injure yourself at all in a way that could explain something like this? A back injury, or trunk injury, or something that could even radiate to your abdomen and cause a sharp muscle pain? Is the pain EVER connected to the diarrhea? If it's just this stand-alone symptom, and even gentle movement triggers it, it just doesn't quite fit the IBS bill. It may not even be something with your GI tract at all, but something like a pinched nerve or muscle/ligament injury that you're constantly aggravating because things are out of whack. And you might have this problem in addition to IBS, which is causing the GI symptoms like diarrhea.

Is this even a remote possibility? Oh - and did they rule out celiac?

- H

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