Night Eating Syndrome to IBS?

[sammcl]

I have been suffering with a number of symptoms over the last 15 months, all of which I will explain in here.

From around March 2009, I had been waking up every few days in the middle of the night, gorging on food and then going back to bed. Anything I could find. After about the 10th time I started getting extreme pains the next day. Although my Doctors was saying this was Gastroenteritis, thus being put on medication for this. I managed to curb this at the start of the year and after a vast amount of research i feel I had night eating syndrome.

Since around Feb I have been having an permanent bloating and pain in my stomach only, everytime I go to the doctors they say I have IBS and don't even want to give me further tests. I have however since obtained an ultrasound which did not discover anything.

I guess my question is, should I really be having this pain everyday? It is ruining my life and I need to get someone to take me seriously! Any help or advice?

[deb649]

Yep.  It seems that at night all the starvation we do from not feeling like eating catches up to us so the body tries to figure out a way to make up the lost nutrients.  At least that's how I think of it.  Try small snacking throughout the day to keep a level of food in stomach.  No big meals.  5 x a day small meals, ya know?  Helps with the pain/nauseous, and helps lose weight too.  I especially crave breads and sweets at night, so I know my blood sugar is low from the irregular eating.  I have also found exercise really does help.  Resistance training has decreased my pain bouts.  Nothing big, just 6-13 one set reps for 20 minutes 3 times a week.  

[loz576]

this sounds exactly like me?