Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: IBS after gut insult

Hi Linda - love your new pic!

From the research I've seen, IBS seems to happen right away after an insult to the gut. Sometimes the symptoms are originally from the trauma itself (food poisoning, rough colonoscopy, etc.) but then the insult resolves - infection is resolved, surgery recovered from, etc. - but the symptoms continue, because they're now due to the enteric nervous system continuing to behave dysfunctionally.

Were you touchy in between the colonoscopy and the onset of real trouble two months later? Did anything else happen around the two month point, that maybe exacerbated a hypersensitivity that was coming into play already from the colonoscopy?

I'm guessing here, and I haven't heard from anyone who had something just like this happen. But I certainly would not discount the possibility.

XXOO
Heather

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