Sounds like you have really been through h*** and back and we all know and feel your pain. I too have wondered where this "IBS" nightmare came from and why, at age 61, did it decide to knock me down for the count. I am as perplexed by some of the same questions you have and wonder if we will ever get our answers. I feel we are entitled, don't you? Ever since my colonoscopy, I don't have a lot of feeling when I have a BM, and that bothers me. It's almost like your problem with your urinating only mine is my rectum, like it's numb up inside and consequently I can't tell the quantity of the BM and am always amazed at that. Something just doesn't feel right about that.
Another thing we seem to have in common, more or less, is that I have always been kind of sickly, in some way or another since I was a little girl. It started with migraines when I was ten, once weekly and for as long as I was going thru high school. Once I had my daughter, they had let up some, I was 25 then, (1971) and then I started passing out at the drop of a hat. I went to a neurologist and he put me in the hospital and discovered I had epilepsy which I have had ever since. I take medications daily to keep my seizures under control but it took over 30+ yrs. to get my seizures under control. And then I developed IBS. So it seems my body has to maintain some sort of a "stress outlet" in some form or another and when one problem gets solved, my body looks for another way to find that outlet. I know this sounds completely absurd, but I was thinking about all of this one day and it made complete sense to me. My mother was told by my pediatrician when I was very young, right before the migraines started, that I had a "nervous stomach". I think this IBS nightmare was bound to happen to me. And it sounds like you may be in that category too, Bendee. I wish you the very best and hope you feel better soon. Anxiety is terrible to live with. Hang in there and know I'm plugging away too! I will not let this beat me and you shouldn't either. Let me know what I can do to help.
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Gloria
IBS-C, lactose intolerant
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