Early morning stomach cramps (NOT PREGNANT)

I've had these symptoms off and on for over twenty years.  All the docs are stumped.  Some of the posts here have other problems going on, and IBS is such a cop out diagnosis.  It means your gut is irritated - but the WHY and a CURE should still be found!

I have all the same symptoms , and the pain is only when i wake up between 6:30 7:00 am and im always going to bed around 11-12 @ night.
To me the symptoms remind me of a hang over. But for me also during the day when im out with my family dinning and shopping , i get the pain after eating when im shopping around but a bit more serve i get really dizzy and i lose me breath and after i get to a rest room. i feel 100% But if im out with girls or my sisters this doesn't happen. I really think this is all brought on my stress.

Hello. I have had a similar problem for as long as I can remember, until recently I discovered what is wrong. Please read and try this and tell me if it works for any of you. I would get the same thing as some of you. 

I have the same problem.

Wow! There are people out there like me!

I have had this problem my entire life. I am 25. Two years ago, I figure out by myself that I have a salicylate sensitivity, and thought that would have been what the cause was, since stomach cramping and diarrhea are how my body reacts to salicylates. But even now, two years after cutting salicylates out of my diet, I am still having these stomach cramps every single morning. I saw a GI last year who told me I have IBS. But that is NOT a disease in and of itself. It is a symptom, always there is something that causes IBS, and often doctors diagnose it and stop searching for an answer. 

I have recently been waking up at four in the morning and having a urgent need for the loo but when I do get on it I get horrible diarrhea and stomach cramps that are really painful  I am a teenage male so it could have something to do with a teen aged hormone imbalance but I have seen women and grown adults in this conversation. Unlike most people here I wake up at let's say four oclock in the morning most nights and have to go to the loo were I have very slimy diarrhea and stomach cramps, but when I force myself back to sleep and wake up at let's say 7-8-9 am it's fine. I was wondering when this started happening to all of you were you in your early teens or what?

Oh my goodness!! I just started having this within the last 12 months and I have bipolar disorder and bad anxiety as well!! So weird!!

Hey im a girl here now. My mom is tellin me about pubrity. Well, this morning (around 9 somewhere am), I had a lower somach cramp usally this tells that i might have my first period soon and that my mom will have it soon too. But, I usally have it later in the day and I had it yesterday too 3 times. I think my body is telling me that my I might have my period soon. I also think it might be hormones. Now this bothers me and im NOT gonna ask my mama!!!!

Hi! I'm 41 after my surgery (removal of uterus ovary cervix) after 2months post op,. I experienced abdominal cramps every morning for 6 months now. But it will only last for 3-8 seconds. It's good if I don't experience it for 1-2 days in a week. I did some experiment if I ate too much or not it's the same. But when it's hot/warm 80 percent chances I don't experience abdominal cramps.

I am experiencing the same thing but i am staying at a beach house and it is always cold but when i go to my bed under the warm covers it feels better again..

I don't know what most of you are talking about and am going through new methods of research so here's MY unique dilemma....
I wake up approximately either 3:50, 4:30 5:30 or 7 in the morning on the dot with stomach aches. Stomach cramps spasms whatever you want to call it they send me to the toilet. I'm not always runny actually my bowels have been moving pretty good usually it's just the nausea. The stomach pains. I haven't eaten in two days and have been feeling too heavy I've been dealing with this for almost four or five years now consistently every SINGLE morning guys there's absolutely no break. Those times in the morning are when I wake up in pain and anxiety and get stomach spasms clear into the afternoon, it's almost 4:30 and I haven't left my bed but to take two baths, sometimes more are needed just for soothing my stomach but when I get out I'm empty again and just exhausted. I can't even go to family events for more than a couple hours I can't grocery shop or mall crawl or even go to movies. I can't work and it stresses me out and I've gone through every possible thing gastroendoritis or cyclical vomiting syndrome or gluten issues it's all just not helping I don't know what is wrong with me and would be so grateful for help. This is something I've sat laying next to the toilet heater wishing I could die to end and wouldn't wish on my worst enemy seriously the person that ticks me off most in this world and has done so much wrong to me I would never wish this condition on them

Could be irritable bowel sydrome?

I too have this problem...(My doctor suggested I take Dictel, and IBS medication,) what IBS medication did he give you and what is Dictel is this prescribed medication?