Why is my stomach so sensitive all of a sudden
Oversensitivity in the Stomach?
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I was reading before the show about a
person that their G on track just
dominated their life they felt like they
were bloating out and increased
abdominal girth and they were passing
gas and they were belching and they were
cramping and they were afraid to go out
and be with people afraid to go to work
afraid even anything yeah what's going
on yeah that's a that's a problem that's
either because of two things it's either
because one they have a real condition
that's making all those symptoms
terrible or they have just a over
sensitivity to things we call that
visceral hypersensitivity where they're
just more sensitive than others for
example if I were to take a normal
person and I would have put a tube in
their nose all the way into their bowels
and let's say I got a quart of room air
and I just pushed it down the tube a
normal person would say oh I'm a little
bloated and they'd go in a corner they
pass it out they'd feel better but if I
take someone with irritable bowel
syndrome tube in the nose quarter room
air and push the tube and pushed it into
their bowels that IBS patient would say
oh oh it burns it stings it doesn't feel
well something's really wrong with this
both of those patients had the exact
amount of gas it's just that the ones
with IBS are more sensitive not this
nerve sensitive but these nerves being
sensitive so does this have anything to
do with this defeat they get anxiety if
they've got stress if they can't handle
society well does that come you know
sometimes it comes out in headaches yeah
- so I'll imagine you can come out in
the gut also for the most part we feel
that people who have the irritable bowel
syndrome have a very normal this nerve
it's these nerves that aren't but this
nerve is responding to this nerve to say
wait a minute something doesn't feel
right they talk about how patients with
IBS
feel everything in their belly whereas
normal people without IBS are able to
shut off those feelings just like you
and I don't feel the shoe on our foot
every minute of every second of every
day if you want to think about it you
could feel a foot but in reality you
don't feel that every moment but IBS
patients can't shut that off and just
they just feel it all the time and
overtime that feeling makes them scared
or nervous or just anxious about things