Question: Over the past two years I have had a injured back. recently i have gone through a lot of change and stress. I do have really bad anxiety. Over the past few weeks my job has changed a lot and it has been very stressful. I have weeks of constipation and then I may have a few days of diarrhea or loose bowels. I have some discomfort in my upper right abdominal and down to my belly button area on right side. I have a small puffy area about 3 inches to the right of my belly button that is tender if pressed. My job requires constant heavy lifting and thats how i injured my back. I feel almost like i have a small hernia in that spot. After getting upset and stressed i have more pain in the abdominals and back area. I had bloodwork done recently and it was all fine. I had been told i have some costicochondritis in my right ribs from a doctor.
Ativan works great and lortab does for my back and such.

I noticed that lifting heavy makes the spot feel worst or leaning back kinda stretching my lower abs

Does IBS become worst with stress?

i also have some indigestion is this also common>

Thanks doc, I feel much better today. I had a movement that had some green mucus in it and after that I have felt a lot of relief the rest of the day after a number of days of discomfort. Even the spot where I thought maybe a hernia could be feels better. I will close this review now.