will my IBS just keep getting worse?
10/28/10 05:38 PM
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renee21
Reged: 06/02/05
Posts: 486
Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I've had IBS for around 13 years, and though I've developped better ways of managing my symptoms over the years, the symptoms themselves have gotten worse. It feels like the IBS has "spread" - I used to feel symptoms (cramping, gas) only in my lower right gut, at the ileocecal valve. Then it spread to the entire ascending colon. Then, last year, it spread to my entire colon. The whole length of it is just burning and tight. It feels like someone is giving my colon what we as kids used to call an Indian Arm Burn (pardon the cultural insensitivity of that term, but it's the best description of the feeling). People talking about using heat to ease cramping, but for me, that makes it worse - it's already burning and hot.
So I am scared. I am scared it's just going to keep getting worse. Every year seems to be worse than the year before. I have not much of a social life, and I haven't had a real romantic relationship in many years. Except for work, I am mostly alone. I am 34 and I feel I'm never going to have a normal life - never going to get married, have kids, build a real career, travel, etc.
I know everyone's IBS is different, but is it common for symptoms to worsen over the years? I think I was told or read somewhere that symptoms gradually abate in old age. Is that true? I am extremely fearful of what my future holds. The last 13 years have beeen pretty bad and have robbed me of so much, so I am terrified of what the 13 (or 50) hold in store.
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IBS-C, lots of spasm and trapped gas.
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