IBS and My Experiences
IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be a challenge to live with because many doctors still do not recognize it as a bona fide illness or condition. This leaves IBS sufferers feeling lonely and hopeless. Having experienced this first hand, I can relate to that feeling very well. When I asked my gastroenterologist what was wrong with me, he replied that he didn’t know. To give you the happy ending at the beginning, I have been leading a perfectly normal life for over two years now after I put a few dietary and behavioral changes into effect. It is my intent to share the things I learned, both through the experience of trial and error, and through information I gleaned from the internet.
Let me give you some background. Back when I was in my twenties I had an ulcer. This was treated successfully but when I started having IBS symptoms I attributed them to ulcers. When no ulcers were found I was confused. My symptoms were mild but often annoying and uncomfortable. I didn’t realize that I must have had IBS until years later when I had an “attack” and couldn’t eat even a teaspoon of food without getting uncomfortably bloated. I was starving but full. It was horrible. I even went to the ER because the pressure on my diaphragm was very uncomfortable and I had no idea what was going on. The attack seemed to get better on it’s own in a few days and I was fine until we went on vacation a few months later. Then I was constipated for days followed by diarrhea for a day. This went on for a month and then it clicked. I remembered someone telling me about their IBS troubles. I ravenously devoured everything I could find on the internet about it, realized those were my symptoms and then set to work fixing things.
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IBS or irritable bowel syndrome has often been brushed off by doctors as a figment of a sufferer’s imagination, yet if you do suffer from IBS this is obviously not the case. Because there are no medically measurable obvious symptoms of IBS, it can’t …
its pretty uncanny to land on this page from stumbleuponi was just thinking about this exact thing last night. glad to see someone took the time to write about it. hope u have a good weekend!