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There is definately a link between the two, I dont think that you can have IBS without having a somewhat strained or strange relationship with food. My boyfriend lovely as he is has never really understood why I wont eat certain things or why I wont even try new things incase they're not safe and set off an attack, but a couple of weeks ago I think he finally understood! He had a bad stomach bug and I said to him imagine that after you've got this bug out your system that the D doesn't stop, that it happens everyday with no rhyme or reason, you cant stop it, you worry about going anywhere and you go to the Doctor who tells you there's nothing wrong with you , therefore nothing they can do about it! I said to him imagine all this and then tell me that you wouldn't have a weird relationship with food. You'll be pleased to know he agreed!!
I totally understand what you said little bear about the bloating making you feel fat and wanna lose weight, I get that feeling on bad days too but have to remind myself that if anything I'm slightly underweight and even if I lost 14lbs it wouldnt take away my bloated belly I'd just look ill and like I'd swallowed a beach ball!!!
I know my eating problems ( not gonna give myself a label) stem from my IBS, my doctor sent me to an eating disorders clinic who told me what I already knew, that I dont infact have a eating disorder such as anorexia etc.. its a fear resulting from my IBS. They wrote back to my doctor and he actually apologised to me last year after 10yrs of trying to get help from him, saying that all this time he thought I was anorexic. I was so angry I could have punched him, if he had actually bothered to listen to me I feel my eating problems/IBS wouldn't be so bad now.
I'm now on a low dose anti-depressant trying to work it out myself with a lot of help and advice from all of you
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