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Serenity Disposables are nice small panties. They are hard to find. I went to a medial supply house to find them first but then found them at a pharmacy near my house.
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I seem to be an IBS A and not always prepared for the D part! I fell and hurt my ankle really bad a couple of years ago and was on crutches for almost 3 months, ever have explosive D while needing to use crutches????   Not a good combo and many accidents ensued!
Congrats on keeping it together and avoiding the meltdown. High way driving gets me worked up as well!
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{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}
What a mature, introspective in-control description of your ordeal! I'm very impressed. You handled your attack perfectly! I know exactly what it's like to be short of meds when you have an attack, and I must say, my tummy dropped a little when I read that part of your post!! 
After reading the replies to your post, I'm reminded of several attacks I had as a kid. I remember hiding my soiled panties 3 times before I was 10 years old... Once when I was 7 at an outdoor picnic area by a lake I threw them in the woods! Once in my father's car when I was 8 1/2 (he busted me later... and I was mortified. Don't know why I thot I wouldn't get busted for that!!  ).
And once when I was almost 10 years old, in a caravan on my 4th grade overnight fishing trip (my *male* teacher found and produced my panties in class as a lost item!!-- I never fessed up to it, and in the end I don't think anyone suspected they were mine. I remember one thing tho: he had some class-- he actually washed them before he took them into school that day, and never revealed the condition he'd found them in!) To this day, I am in horror of getting stranded with D in the outdoors!! Not an unfounded fear!!
I guess it's not weird, looking back, that I don't remember the attacks themselves, as our minds have the tendency to erase the pain. BUT, I definitely remember cleaning myself up and "hiding the evidence" from adults. I guess the attacks wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have to deal with other people!!!!?!
I know the drama a painful and inconvenient attack can wreak on the soul!! {{{{More hugs}}}} to you, and a WAY TO GO for living through it! Hopefully that will satisfy your quota for public attacks for the next few months!!  Take care!
~nelly~ So glad we can share aabout this stuff! Name one other person who'd understand!!!
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Susie,
I am sorry that you have had such a rough experience. I have had the same thing happen to me several times and it is a very upsetting.
When I have to go on long drives I find that helps me if I think of all the places I could stop if I had to go to the bathroom. Also knowing exactly how long it is going to take me to get there helps. Somehow planning in my mind the places I can stop if I need to makes me feel that I have more control. I think just knowing that there are places I can stop if I have to makes me feel a little calmer about traveling.
I always worry about going to people's houses that only have one bathroom too.
Lots of hugs to you.
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AWWWWW!  I'm so sorry this happened to you. I think we've all been there, though. I've had it happen twice at work. And you're right about the wonderful support we have here. I had a very strange attack yesterday, no C or D, just extreme pain. The whole time all I could think about was getting home & checking the message boards for similar experiences. This site is such an amazing place & so are the people on it! Including you & your strength!
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Hugs to you Susie2!! Wtih reading this I feel the same way. I may not post as much any more but do read as many posts as I can when I can. It is great that you are there for your daughter even though you are going through your own issues. I too had similar events (accidents)as I believe most of us on here do. But we do what we can when we can. So again sending hugs to you for being there and hugs for your daughter to get better. take care Sue p.s. I carry immodium,gas-x, extra undies and light day pads, and extra snacks every where I go, I smiled when I read that part.
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I'm sitting here sipping peppermint tea while my tummy continues to cramp. Today was going to be my day. Hair, a few errands, get some chores done. Yesterday was at my daughter's. Going again tomorrow. Every other day now. 94 miles round trip. AM had a hair appointment for the works, cut, color, highlights. Nice, huh. Then I stopped at Costco. Bought too much as usual. I was going on to Target but I was starved and needed lunch. It was 2:30. Came home, went potty and there it was. I think I have lost all sensation in my rectum. Not the colon though! Too much sensation there. Another pair of panties in the trash. I don't dare take imodium. I will be blocked for days and the whole vicious cycle with start again. My mood is getting less positive.
I decided I will go see the colorectal surgeon. I can't go on like this with the poor sphincters and rectal prolapse (not a real back one, but still). One GI said manage it medically. One general surgeon said ditto. One GI said see the colorectal guy at USC (University of Southern California - Go Trojans, Go). Hmm, real guy school. Neither GI will actually do a proper referral. I have to make the appointment, get the records, etc. Plus I will probably have to get one of these GIs to do another colonoscopy as it has been almost 2 years. I wonder if my insurance will pay so soon after the last one. But, I can't do anything until my daughter is better. She is doing so well. Yesterday we went on a rather long walk. Too long to my way of thinking, but her doc says it's okay.
I did go back out to get disposable panties. First I went to the surgical supply and bought what they had. Then I decided to go to Rite Aid as it was only on the other side of the street. They had the Serentiy panties, which are much nicer. They run large. I bought medium and I usually were a size 7 panty. I also bought cheap panties at Costco. More baby wipes. And I bought too much food. I don't know why I do that. Well, I can bring half the fruit to my daughter. They have these big packages of boneless, skinless chicken breasts and two are individually packaged in freezer ready plastic. I also bought a couple of books, but when I'll get to read them I don't know. Something to look forward to.
You guys are the greatest. You know what it is like. Plus so many of us also have anxiety and depression also. I am so tired, but so geared up. If I take something, I won't want to cook dinner and I bought fish (tilapia). Sometimes I wish I could just pick up already cooked food, but I know I'll get sick. I get so tired of cooking. And we don't eat out much. Just isn't worth it. Plus decent restaurants are rather pricey.
Well, I think I've finished ranting. Thanks all for being here.
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Great. Glad you found them. You are correct on size. I wear a size 5 panty and the mediums are too big and the smalls are almost impossible to find--when I find them I buy them out.
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