Trauma to the GI Tract
#373667 - 02/13/18 02:43 PM
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In today's article, Gallbladder Removal, Bile Malabsorption & IBS, it says "For some people IBS follows an insult to the gut - dysentery, food poisoning, intestinal flu, abdominal surgery, even pregnancy. Long after physical recovery from the trauma to the GI tract, the nerves within the gut retain a "memory" of the insult and remain hyper-sensitive and prone to over- or under-reaction." Could a colonoscopy do the same thing? I was diagnosed with IBS after my last colonoscopy.
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Yep - a roughly or poorly performed colonoscopy absolutely qualifies as an insult to the gut, and I've talked to folks who developed IBS as a direct result of this.
You should always be totally unconscious during a colonoscopy.
XXOO
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