Ok so this might be quite long.....

I am currently aborad and am not feeling 100% Before I left to come here I went to my doctors with back pain and stomach pains. He did several blood tests and a urine test and everything came back normal. He told me if I still had the back pains he would send me to a physiotherapist when I get home. He made me do some excericese and the pain was worse in certain positions.

All my symptoms went away until my second week here in Portugal and then I strarted to have back pain again and mild tummy pains. I have convinced myself that it is kidney trouble and I don't really know why, my blood pressure is normal. When I come away I normally get stressed and upset very easily becasue I am away from m wonderful partner...so maybe my stress is just causing my syptoms? Also I was in france for 7 motnhs and had similar problems there and then when I went home they all went away until the week before I was coming away again.

Also I didn't have any other symptoms until I read a list of symptoms on the internet....so perhaps I am just imaganing or being psychsommatic! I am also swinging between being constipated and having dirroreah, which is a sign of irratable bowel syndrome, as can be back pain and stomach cramps.....IBS is also made worse by stress...which i clearly am.

I am 21, femall...always been healthy.....no history of kidney problems in family. I will be going home in 2 weeks...so i can easily see a doctor then if i need to.

Would a KIDNEY problem have shown up on my urine and blood tests? Am I just being a paranoid hypochondriac? Could I have IBS?