IBS- please help

I am a male aged 48 years with stomach health problems.

1. Describe your main suffering?

I take about 2 hours to clear my bowels in the morning. Feel like some small stool is still stuck in anus. Do not get the feeling that evacuation is complete.
Sometimes I have to go during the day and only gas and mucous come out.

I have got a colonoscopy done and doctor says intestine and colon are very irritable (inflamed).

If there is a stress event I get severe pain on the left side of my navel.

By nature I feel anxious always.


2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body?

I have a slightly enlarged prostrate.
I have neck pain from sitting on computer.
I feel weak in the morning and have difficulty getting up.
Catch cold and infection easily if I come in contact with person who is not well.

Generally feel weak and tired.


3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
I feel anxious. I avoid morning meetings and limit social contacts.

I have short term memory loss.

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?

I feel constipated and depressed.

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease?

It started after an emotional event which caused stress and severe pain in left side of abdomen.

6. Which time of the day you are worst?

In the morning I have to strain to clear my bowels. During the day if I feel bowels are not clear then have slight heaviness on left side of abdomen.

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?

Milk, seeds and aerated drinks make situation worse.
I have fruits like banana and custard apple(shareefa) and yoghurt to ease my bowel movement.


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?

I suffer from high anxiety. About my work and my future.
If I have a stress event then I have severe pain on left side of abdomen.


9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?

I sweat a lot in hot weather. In winter I feel very cold.

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc.

I am of anxious nature. Get nervous about review meetings and my deliverable's.

I get offended easily and have sensitive nature.
I get irritated easily.
I generally like to stay alone and have limited social circle.
Any noise like people gargling or slurping is unbearable.

I have low self esteem.

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
Normal

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times?
Yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?

Yes. Very sensitive to smell and noise.

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless weeping, talking to one self etc

My nose feels stuffy with dried nasal mucous so I keep picking my nose.

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?

I am single and live with my parents. I feel detached from people.

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?

I am scared of old age and having to live alone without any one to care for me.

12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?

I crave for cakes, fruit juice, fried items, meat and fish.





13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive?

Normal

14. How if your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive?

Less

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?

Milk, fried items, pickles, aerated drinks,Vada, Patty and outside food is not tolerated by body.

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs?

Sweat more in the armpits.

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type?

I have unformed stools, never able to empty in one sitting..have spend two hours in the morning still I don't feel empty. I feel I have trapped gas. Sometimes I have to go during the day and only mucous come out.


18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping?

I do not sleep well. I turn and sleep more on the right side.

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?

No

20. How do you think you are different from others, if at all?

I seem to be detached from people, friends and family.
Get anxious, tired very easily and catch infection more often. Take a long time to recover.

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?

I have had normaxcin for IBS and it has given me cold and bad throat.

22. What major diseases are running in your family?

Father has high blood pressure and mother has low blood pressure.

23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance

I am 5’7 about 62 kg..thin build