How did you get IBS? POLL
#260071 - 04/25/06 04:44 PM
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This probably isn't the right board but I'm just doing a little research and I was curious as to how people first got their IBS. The categories are:
A)Antibiotics or drugs
B)Stress related
C)Food Poisoning
D)Other
Please post if you're IBS-A, IBS-B, IBS-C as well. Thanks!
I believe mine first started out as stress related and I'm IBS-C.
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Jon - (IBS C)
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My best guess is stress related.
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Kim
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D)Other- eating disorder
I'm IBS-C but lately been D!
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IBS-C
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A) - many bouts with antibiotics, and way too much Advil, Midol, and other anonymous pain medication
B) - stress makes attacks worse, but I don't think it caused IBS entirely
and D) - unknown? possibly something that I haven't found yet?
IBS-D but stable since February..
Kat
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Kat
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I had D and stomach problems as a child. For instance I would get D and/or I would vomit every morning before school or some social event (unless of course you told me school was canceled for the day, then suddenly I was fine.) So I would assume it is stress or anxiety related. I am now IBS-C. I guess it just switched when I started to calm down and control my anxiety a little ...I can't win.
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IBS-D
I think mine was stressed related. It developed around the time that my parents started drinking heavy and getting abusive. And my mother never wanted to let me go use the bathroom when we were out. She always yelled at me and told me I had to hold it.
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Possibly stress started it slowly but my IBS-D didn't get full blown until back in 1980 I was given a med to clean out my colon for a test and from that week on the D never cleared up. And of course that meant the panic attacks and agoraphobia came on the heels of constant worry about D in public. What a vicious cycle this disease can be. It makes me fill up with tears to think that until I found this website I knew I was doomed to a miserable life. And some days it did not seem worth living if I had to live that way. For me Heather's diet was my key out of prison.
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Franny
IBS/D
Celiac
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I've had it all my life in some form or another.. definitely got worse in my teens and again in my 20's and then my 30's- I'm an A
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Dietetics Student (anticipating RD exam in Aug 2010)
IBS - A
Dairy Allergic
Fructose and MSG intollerant
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my GI said it was because I didn't go to the bathroom while in high school, so it plugged me up. he explained it like, think of your bowels as a friend, when your friend calls you pick up the phone, (go to the bathroom), right? Well, when your friend calls and you stop picking up the phone, your friend stops calling! So, that's why I have IBS?
I'm a IBS-C
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Kiwi
IBS-C
Edited by Kiwii (04/26/06 06:48 AM)
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Pain meds, migraine prevention meds and stress!
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