Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

first things first....the whole point of this forum is so you can enjoy talking openly and freely about the real story with ibs...not the one with flowers that we have to give at dinner parties i.e the difference between telling your parents in law that you have a 'sensitive tummy'...when what you really want to say is 'if i eat your cabbage and broccoli dish covered in cream, not only will i get cramps so bad i want to kill myself, brown water will explode from my bum with undigested particles OR i won't be able to poo for weeks and when it comes out i will feel like i am a rabbit doing rabbit plops...i may be lucky enough to be so nauseaous i have to live with my head between my knees!'. Ok, so sorry if I went on...but BE comfortable!!
I wrote a post about ibs and sex a few weeks ago. I got married four months ago and my ibs has been terrible lately because I caught a tummy bug two weeks before my wedding and it ruined me! anyway, i was feeling so bad and I just had NO interest in sex whatsoever. None. and it just wasn't me. Its normal. When that area of your body is so close to the hole that causes so much trauma, you aren't feeling too open to being sexual. Plus, feeling bloated, nauseaous, whatever.....makes you feel very unsexy in everyway. and physically, sex can actually be painful when the bowels are bad.
But we all have good moments...those are the moments to jump on your partner and make the most of it.
My problem was, that even in the good moments I had no sex drive (I have always had a good one)...and I was also getting a lot of vaginal infections...I went off the pill 3 weeks ago (been on it for five years) and my sex drive has soared. So it was very hormonally related.
So thats me....is your partner understanding?

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