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my IBS/C sprouted from indirect disordered eating, which happened when i went thru severe depression and a cutting problem. to avoid having C [after all the DRs tested me and gave me no help] i got into laxative abuse in a way to purge my body. at first it was to purge the C. but later on it became more about purging food so i could be thin. since i had IBS @ 16-17, i was always bloated and hid away in baggy clothes b/c i thought i was fat. but when i was laxative-thin, i got to wear all the cute fun clothes that i never wouldve dreamed of wearing when i was bloated and C. the laxatives caused my IBS to get worse, but then it got better, and then it got worse again. i notice that the waves i go thru in my ibs, are the same kind of waves i go thru with food--partially b/c of my ibs, but partially b/c i still want to have my thin-highschool body i never really got to have. ill say though, that when i was in europe last summer [croatia] i had no IBS problems at all! in fact, i lost 10 pounds. it put me dangerously low and since returning, ive been coping with the regain of it and the worse turn my ibs took. when i dont have ibs problems, i dont really have eating issues either. i only get self-conscious when i get bloated b/c i think im fat, and thats when i get obsessive about food. it sounds sick when i say it straight-forward but its true. i think IBS can be caused by eating problems. but i also think IBS can indirectly cause eating problems too. when i post my daily foods and eat sparingly to avoid attacks, i even start to feel a little anorexic. i even think i come off that way to people aside from my close circle--i know im not though but its terribly hard explaining it to non-sufferers. does that help some with your Q? hope so *HUGS*
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VEGAN ASHLEY~IBS/C
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There is definately a link between the two, I dont think that you can have IBS without having a somewhat strained or strange relationship with food. My boyfriend lovely as he is has never really understood why I wont eat certain things or why I wont even try new things incase they're not safe and set off an attack, but a couple of weeks ago I think he finally understood! He had a bad stomach bug and I said to him imagine that after you've got this bug out your system that the D doesn't stop, that it happens everyday with no rhyme or reason, you cant stop it, you worry about going anywhere and you go to the Doctor who tells you there's nothing wrong with you , therefore nothing they can do about it! I said to him imagine all this and then tell me that you wouldn't have a weird relationship with food. You'll be pleased to know he agreed!!
I totally understand what you said little bear about the bloating making you feel fat and wanna lose weight, I get that feeling on bad days too but have to remind myself that if anything I'm slightly underweight and even if I lost 14lbs it wouldnt take away my bloated belly I'd just look ill and like I'd swallowed a beach ball!!!
I know my eating problems ( not gonna give myself a label) stem from my IBS, my doctor sent me to an eating disorders clinic who told me what I already knew, that I dont infact have a eating disorder such as anorexia etc.. its a fear resulting from my IBS. They wrote back to my doctor and he actually apologised to me last year after 10yrs of trying to get help from him, saying that all this time he thought I was anorexic. I was so angry I could have punched him, if he had actually bothered to listen to me I feel my eating problems/IBS wouldn't be so bad now.
I'm now on a low dose anti-depressant trying to work it out myself with a lot of help and advice from all of you
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