Anyone here suffer from IBS ?

You get used to it. I've had mine ever since I had my appendix out around 10 years ago.

Find out what your triggers are (keep a food diary) then avoid these if you're about to go out.

Mine are:
Certain pizza's (domino's & perfect pizza seem to set me off, the Asda fresh ones and the Dr Ottkers(sp) don't affect me)
Anything with Jalapeno's or Chilli's
Tuna & Cucumber sandwiches from Pret (but not from anywhere else(!))

I don't avoid these completely, but I don't eat them during the week when I know I have to be up early for the train. I do tend to avoid domino/PP pizza's altogether now anyway.

Pizza's tend to trigger it within a few hours, Jalapeno's & Chilli's guarantee a rush to the toilet in the mornings (usually just before I have to goto work!)


Best bet is to go to the doctors, they'll assume it's IBS but mine did run some blood tests to determine if H.Pylori was present.

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I've never had it diagnosed but I have all the symptoms you describe. The doctor said I was just suffering from anxiety/stress. But I know where you're coming from. If I know I've got to go somewhere and it would be difficult to get to the bog, I take a couple of Immodium. Usually helps.

There are things I was told to do by the quack but I'm a bit of a lazy sod and haven't put them into practice yet.

Firstly, change diet so you cut out fatty/sugary/spicy foods and eat plenty fruit/veg/fibre. I can't give up chips and curry here. :(
Secondly, lots of physical exercise. I do zilch.
Thirdly, lots of relaxation/mental exercises. Again, I tend to watch TV or play PS3 instead.

So in a way, it's my fault for not trying enough.

Going to work is a helluva task in itself. Getting up in the morning I have to go 2/3 times to the bog and then usually again when I get to work. To me that is just the anxiety kicking in because when I'm at home for the day, one trip to the lav is all I have - unless I've eaten something like pizza and then I get the squitters.

Luckily, I only live 10 minutes away on my bike and am not tied to my desk. I can pretty much come and go as I please. In a way, I'm dreading going to uni in the autumn being in a crowded lecture theatre and stuff but I will have to cope with it or else my life is just going to go down the pan and I will be stuck in a dead-end temp job for ever. Between now and then, I'm determined to get to the gym and work on stress busting and easing all the tension out of my body.

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ic1male said:
I've never had it diagnosed but I have all the symptoms you describe. The doctor said I was just suffering from anxiety/stress. But I know where you're coming from. If I know I've got to go somewhere and it would be difficult to get to the bog, I take a couple of Immodium. Usually helps.

There are things I was told to do by the quack but I'm a bit of a lazy sod and haven't put them into practice yet.

Firstly, change diet so you cut out fatty/sugary/spicy foods and eat plenty fruit/veg/fibre. I can't give up chips and curry here. :(
Secondly, lots of physical exercise. I do zilch.
Thirdly, lots of relaxation/mental exercises. Again, I tend to watch TV or play PS3 instead.

So in a way, it's my fault for not trying enough.

Going to work is a helluva task in itself. Getting up in the morning I have to go 2/3 times to the bog and then usually again when I get to work. To me that is just the anxiety kicking in because when I'm at home for the day, one trip to the lav is all I have - unless I've eaten something like pizza and then I get the squitters.

Luckily, I only live 10 minutes away on my bike and am not tied to my desk. I can pretty much come and go as I please. In a way, I'm dreading going to uni in the autumn being in a crowded lecture theatre and stuff but I will have to cope with it or else my life is just going to go down the pan and I will be stuck in a dead-end temp job for ever. Between now and then, I'm determined to get to the gym and work on stress busting and easing all the tension out of my body.

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RE: the leacture thing...I had this a few weeks ago. We had to play this stupid business game and stay in our groups - it was all very official etc. Anyway our group supervisor came over and started questioning us all - by this time my bowel felt like it was going to pop and I started sweating like nothing on earth...

I haven't been diagnosed but it seems to happen (the problems) when I'm stressed etc.
 
Apparently pregnancy is a fairly good for alleviating / curing IBS. ;)

IBS as I'm sure many of the sufferers here are aware, is difficult to treat because the symptoms and triggers are different for each individual sufferer.

I've read somewhere in the past that IBS is just a generic term for a multitude of digestive related illnesses and the medical professional has not been capable as yet of identifying and classifying them all so they just get used under this one general name.
 
jezsoup said:
When you go to the doctors with suspected IBs what do they use for diagnosis?
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You generally end up getting out patients appointments every 3 months or so, you see a consultant they chat to you about it, ask you how things are going, prescribe you one thing or another, you have scans, blood tests (iirc) colonoscopies, endoscopies, enemas etc

They really are looking to see if its anything more severe like Crohns, cancer or another bad bowel condition (I can never remember the other one but it sounded not nice)

It takes over a year for them (well in my area) to diagnose these things.
 
I've been living with IBS unmedicated for 10 years, I used to suffer badly to the extent I lost a lot of time at work. With medical confirmation my employer was understanding. In my case physical body stress, in my case I can't stand overly warm temps, certain fats will lead to me baing confined to the smallest room in the house within 60 minutes and not coming out for a long time. Over the years i've got to the stage where after one mouthfull I know if I can eat something or not, i've also learned that certain takeaways (and more crucially the oil they use) are off limits. Peppermint based products are a fantastic natural way of cutting down the effects of an attack (even chewing gum seems to ease things when I feel things starting). The advantage is you always smell minty fresh ;) Gradually with age it seems to have improved.
 
I have had IBS for about 7 years or so now, since I left school and started university. It is mostly stress-related for me, needing to dash to the toilet before interviews, exams, big meetings etc. More recently, I was diagnosed with anxiety (which I've probably had all along), and I take fluoxitene for that, which has the positive side effect of calming down my IBS. I know that bread makes me all bloated, but I love sandwiches, so I could never give it up.

If you have problems with needing to dash to the toilet, ask your doctor for codeine phosphate. It's a painkiller that also stops your bowels from moving. It works within 30 minutes of taking the tablet. The downside is it can make you a bit drowsy.
 
Thanks for all the advice in here guys,


I realy do appreciate it :)


Its good to know that there are people here who i can talk to about the way i feel, sometimes it feels like your the only one :o
 
I had ulcerative colitis, had 3 operations, a bag (ileostomy) and am now reversed and have been doing reasonably well for a couple of years.

Wouldnt wish IBD on anyone, its a real life stopper.
 
My sister has Ulcerative Colitis, she has been lucky so far managing to keep it under control. She was very ill at one time with it, but it's very rare for her to have any symptoms these days.
 
At one point when I went to hospital they thought I might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, however after an endoscopy they found it was only lactose intolerance. This is sometimes quite bad though because I seem to, admittedly this is irregularly, get an enourmous pain in my stomach (or general area), I was in hospital with it for a few days once, and nearly in hospital a second time (they thought it was appendicitis).

I'm glad I don't have Irritable Bowel Syndrome, it sounds pretty bad. All I have to do is make sure that I don't eat things with milk in really.

Does anyone else who gets this type of stomach pain get pains in one side of their face, and shoulder also? I get this from lactose intolerance, and I am told it is due to the nerves. I think that is the worst part really though.

Angus Higgins
 
T16 said:
I had ulcerative colitis, had 3 operations, a bag (ileostomy) and am now reversed and have been doing reasonably well for a couple of years.

Wouldnt wish IBD on anyone, its a real life stopper.
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Similair to me except I had 2 operations and same here, doing reasonably well, just having a severe bout of pouchitis but the antibiotics are starting to kick in.
Just thinking what it would be like to have a OcUK IBD meet up, can you imagine everyone in the pub drinking and then one by one people legging it to the toilets :D
 
I get awful IBS when I'm very stressed at work.

I've found that eating a very healthy diet, cutting down on drinking, eating pro-biotic yogurt daily and following a good excersise regime has made all the difference.

Ant :cool:
 
my mrs suffers from it and hers is mainly down to the crap she eats sometimes.

too much fatty meat, and too much diary produts and nuts. if she has too much of these types of foods then she can be in pain for up to 3 or 4 days which is a right ball ache for me as i get no sleep of a night time.

but the funniest thing is we have found 2 things that can help the first is bbq food ie bbq meat that helps the flow so to speak.

the second is when i first met her she was a lady you no and wouldnt fart but for some reason whether its since being round me(who farts like a trooper) he has kept up with the jones's and farts like a trooper now and touch wood she hasnt had a bad case for a while now.

"SLAP" she has just seen what i have put.

also she has informed me her ex husband was an A*** and stress made it bad for her aswell so more brownie points for me.
 
if Crohn's Disease can be included, what about piles? :(

as embarassing as it is i feel that to have it openly and to talk about it is the best way to overcome it, it does have some sick symptons which thankfully i dont get but most days i have to rush home to go to the toilet as i dont feel comfortable going in a public place in case the worst happens. :(

TaKeN said:
Its good to know that there are people here who i can talk to about the way i feel, sometimes it feels like your the only one :o
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i definately know that feeling, took me 2 weeks to tell my own parents about it as i was just so embarassed, but after reading that people can die from my condition if left untreated, i thought it absolutely necessary to do something about it a.s.a.p

strangely even joking with friends about it has helped me a bit because they know how much pain i can be in sometimes and they help me to forget about it
 
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chipperhead said:
Similair to me except I had 2 operations and same here, doing reasonably well, just having a severe bout of pouchitis but the antibiotics are starting to kick in.
Just thinking what it would be like to have a OcUK IBD meet up, can you imagine everyone in the pub drinking and then one by one people legging it to the toilets :D
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My pouchitis tends to come back.

I take probiotics, and usually once every 2 weeks or so pop a couple of cipro's if things start to loosen up. Cipros great, at least we know the illness is purely bacterial when its antibiotics that help. Even though it might be bacteria that break through to the wrong side of the mucosa, its still good that nothing like steroids are needed.

Im a gym nut, but find with the pouch its damn hard to put the pounds on!!

Envy of all my female work collegues as I scoff my face at lunch and most of the day!
 
I've got it mildly, so i basically feel constipated a lot, and fart a fair bit. Fortunately its not as bad as quite a few people - doesnt affect my life too much
 
i suffer from IBS as well. Mainly I just have a very harsh pain in my stomach whenever i'm stressed out or depressed but I haven't had the feeling in a couple of weeks now which means im alright atm
 
As Krono indirectly said earlier in the post, i am a sufferer, i stuggled with it from when i was 12 and they only decided to do something about it when they did a operation to take out appendix and left it there as it was fine, this triggered the investigations, this was just before my 19 birthday.

I get no warning at all, but there are things/ cards you can get that if you suddenly need to go you can show it to any shop and they should show you to the staff toilets (never got one myself, i intend to at some point).

As for it recking your life, it will only do that if you let it, i felt like that for a while. i was told to get a grip i have tried so many different medicines some make me spacey some sick or gain weight. But i look at it from a positive angle at least it has been diagnosed, my school years were hell as i didnt know what was wrong with me and i didnt talk about it.

Try to stay positive as for some people this is just a way of life (i know thats prob not much help now :) )
 
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