Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Not an insignificant thing!

Be proud of yourself! Eating Disorders are very very rough to overcome and then when you get the IBS pain despite "being good" it doesn't feel like the reward we think we deserve by overcoming the ED demons! Ironic, but when I decided to stop the ED and eat healthy is when I suffered the most with the pain of IBS. Not quit the outcome I expected!

I thought that once I had overcame the anorexia/bulimia I would be carefree to eat whatever I wanted. Freedom from restrictions and calorie counting and obsessing. It's now a new obsessing and restrictive eating, but much healthier. And the pain is chronic and I still am symptomatic. Not what we deserve after a long life of being enslaved by our eating disorder. But I would not go back to that ever again, despite the difficulties I am having now. In the beginning it was rough. But I learned that it was not worth the physical and emotional toll.

You can overcome this. I will pray for you. I've been there. It is a dark place. You are no longer alone.

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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!

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