Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: bump

Thanks to everyone for your helpful input. Kem, I feel that you are most onto the issue here - the very act of peristalis is the trigger for me. I have no spasm before going, and lots afterwards - it stings and burns. I have tried all the things everyone mentions (melatonin, bentyl, hypno CDs, yoga, meditation) and I never found much sucess with any of it but I think it's a matter of trying it all again, maybe in different or increased amounts. Certainly stress makes it worse - I recently took a 3-month sick leave from work because of the IBS and I certainly felt much better when I was off work. I am thinking of trying to get on long-term disability because I feel awful and would like to have more time and energy to do more yoga and meditation and walking and other helpful stuff, not schlepping back and forth on the subway and sitting at a desk all day.
Syl, I have never known whether to describe myself as C or D or A. I never have the urgency to go (unless I eat a lot of fatty foods or alcohol - both of which I avoid), so I set a time for myself to go, when I sense gas moving around in there a bit, ususually after lunch. And it's a lengthy process. I have to cross my legs, do twists with my torso, or put my feet up on a stool and press my knees into my abdomen in order to go. And it's always incomplete evacuation and messy at the end. And then I strain a little to try to finish it up. Sorry, lots of TMI there. It never really finishes well, but it's not hard or dry. If I didn't "make the time", I simply wouldn't go, so I see that as C.

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IBS-C, lots of spasm and trapped gas.

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