Why IBS
#81061 - 06/19/04 11:54 AM
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bigblue
Reged: 05/30/04
Posts: 95
Loc: New Jersey...USA
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Does anyone have any idea why are bodies are now messed up? All my life I was fine till 3 years ago. Just wondering what went wrong. I was 35 when this all started. What about everyone else?
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Re: Why IBS
#81063 - 06/19/04 12:08 PM
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atomic rose
Reged: 06/01/04
Posts: 7013
Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
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I first started showing symptoms of this when I was 12, although it didn't get really bad till I was in my 20s. Even now, it comes and goes, and a cumulative combination of stress and eating poorly for a few years is usually to blame for the really bad spells. I blame heredity for some of mine, though. My father has the same problems I do.
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There are all kinds of theories -- but no one knows. If they did, we'd have a "fix" for it. One day they'll come across a gene or virus or something -- but I'll be 8 feet under by then!
Meanwhile, we just have to learn how to work around it. And these Boards are the BEST way to do that. I found that the books help -- of course I'm talking about HEATHER's books! -- but talking with others who have the same problem and are looking for the same fix, trying different options and finding out what works and what doesn't -- is the best and fastest way to get through that "trial-and-error" phase.
I've been stable for months, thanks to these Boards. You can too. And I look at IBS as a blessing -- that's right, a blessing -- because it forces me to eat right, keeps me from pigging out on cookies and candy, pies and cakes, and of course my beloved coffee. [Sigh.] I'm not kidding; I eat all the right stuff now, I don't cheat, and I'm doing pretty damn good! I have no complaints -- and for all of this I have my IBS to thank.
Do you buy that?
Bev
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