IBS caused by anxiety disorders and depression due to a knee surgery

by Yazmin
(San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Before the knee lession due to a fall, I was a active woman whom used to training in the gym 3 times a week and took spinning classes also I worked as a Makeup Artist. I was an active woman who suffered of major depression from about 20 years and had the condition under control. I am been married about 10 years. In January I slipped and fall in the floor. I went to a orthopedist and she explained to me that the fall caused a subluxation of the knee cap to the right. She recommended to do an andoscopy to accomodate the knee cap in its place. My surgery was in March and went suceesfull, but the recovery was very painful and slow and I feel anxious again because this situation affected my work, I had to quit the spinning classes and use a cane to walk taking breaks. I became depressed and extreme anxiety and my psychiatrist sent me to a partial hospitalization to adjust my medicines and to manage the anxiety. Then this summer I began to feel very violent abdominal cramps, diarrhea and contipation, and I had to go to a GI doctor. He did a colonoscopy study, and labs of my stools, and diagnosed my symptons as Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I am trying to control the symptoms but during my mentrual period, the symptons get worse, and I am feeling extreme exhaustion, diziness, chest pressure and joint sensitivity, I do not know if chronic fatigue is related to IBS. Sometimes I feel sad because this changed my life. But I have faith and try to live one day at a time.(Sorry with my English, I am from Puerto Rico from Spaniard ascendants and my first language is Spanish).