Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Kind of freaked out! What is wrong with me?

My profession is definitely a high stress one - I'm a systems analyst and IT (Information Technology) is very demanding and competetive. Stress levels and demands vary of course from company to company and I think I've worked the gambit. I don't feel that I can blame my symptoms on stress b/c while working at the most stressful company to date I had NO symptoms (I also had a lot of personal stressors at the time). My current location is probably middle of the road in terms of stress and my symptoms over the past 10 months have been by far the most extreme ever (I've had IBS for 20 years). My personal life is extremely low stress as compared to past years... I'm a single mom raised 3 kids on my own for 18 years (with zero help from their dad), put myself through college twice while working and raising kids, graduated 2nd in my class in computer science (If that's not stress I don't know what is). My kids are all raised now and living on their own so my life is actually more relaxed than it's ever been.

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Jeanette IBS-D, then switched to IBS-A, now stable with Udo's Choice Super Bifido Plus Probiotic

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