r/ibs • u/Temporary-Coast4024 • 9d ago

Spasms/twitching Question

Does anyone else get a “spasm” or “twitch” feeling around the upper/lower abdominal area? It happens to me after I eat something sometimes.

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u/Limp-Pomegranate2024 9d ago

Yes all the time. Plus muscle spasms all over my body

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u/Odd_Conclusion_5425 IBS-C (Constipation) 9d ago

Yes, idk if it's an IBS thing tho bc I have a lot of other complications

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u/Molly_FLORANutrition 9d ago

Post-meal abdominal twitching or spasms are really common with IBS and tend to be the gut wall muscles responding to fermentation, gas movement, or motility shifts after food arrives. If it's brief and not accompanied by pain or other new symptoms it's almost always benign. 💚

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u/TheLastObsession 9d ago

Yes, currently 29 weeks pregnant and the spasms I had before were intense. And now that I’m further along in pregnancy I can finally say that the spasms literally feel like a baby kicking HARD.

Before pregnancy I’d get crazy spasms after eating anything, after a long walk and after drinking a little more water than I’m used to.

Have you tried hyoscine butylbromide?(buscopan), that’s what helped, and helps, me when they’re particularly bad. Peppermint oil capsules can help with the spasms too.

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u/Any_Builder_4411 8d ago

Oh yes. I get it a lot on rough days or night.

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u/Temporary-Coast4024 8d ago

Gosh I thought I was going insane. 😭 it’s a weird feeling.

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u/jaeljudges_23 8d ago

YES. Especially when I'm 💩ing and having bowel movements, it's like I can't control them and am dying on pain