At its worst how bad was your IBS-D?
#285168 - 10/04/06 08:34 AM
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hms05
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I'm just trying to gauge how "bad" my IBS is. I suspect it's mild but have no idea. I feel like these days I have one attack and feel like it's the end of the world!
I just need some perspective on where I stand...thanks!!
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One day this summer, I counted 28 trips to the potty, all with screaming cramps and explosive D.  Most days, I'm down to 4-5 explosions but sometimes, its still 15 or so. And to think, I used to be so C i took miralax dily for years!
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When it's bad, it's bad. I can't eat - even SF goes right through me - I have a minimum of 3 to 4 attacks (mad dashes to the bathroom, cramping, explosive D, sweats, chillds, nausea, etc) after each time I would eat. My attacks could last 10 to 15 minutes or several hours. And this lasted for days and days on end. In Feb / March I was nearly hospitalized because I couldn't keep any food with me - I was down eating to English Muffins and saltines. I was still working, but I was told by my gp to stop going to the gym and the pool because there just wasn't enough energy in me left to give and it was almost hurting me to work out. I should have been off work for 6 to 8 weeks to recouperate, but the type of job I have is difficult to be away from and even when I am (like now because of foot surgery) I take home the laptop and work from home.
What are you doing to help your IBS? Diet? Hypno? Etc????
Best of luck!!
Cassandra
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Cassandra
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up! 
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Long before I stabilized and before I connected any part of my diet with my D, I had explosive and very painful attacks every single day.
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Unmedicated, I had between 9 and 20 episodes of explosive D a day. About every day, since I was 8. I'm 35 now.
Before I found out how to control my IBS through diet and managing external stressors, then finally through medication, to stop the painful attacks I would just not eat. I spent a number of years just not eating as a result. Sounds horrible, but it's the only way I knew how to get through it and in the end, it was how I was able to graduate from school. 
Thankfully, I manage my IBS MUCH better now!  I have the tools to deal with the day to day life of an IBS-er and my attacks are a handful a month now rather than a handful a day! I'm at the point where I don't fear having to go pee (because every time I did in the past, I'd run the risk of having a full-on 100 mph evacuation).
I'll never get the 2 years back when I was bedridden, or when I had no social life and missed out on a lot of stuff a child/teenager/twenty-something/young professional could have had... But my life is pretty great now, and I can enjoy the things that make me me, instead of spending my time isolated by the fear, pain and anxiety that comes with IBS!!
Man, that was a lot of baggage there. Hope I at least touched on your question.
~nelly~
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