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Oh GaGa! I feel your pain! I had the worst IBS attack last Thursday. I had been pretty stable and not had anything go wrong probably since October. But it's that moment it hits that panic races back in. I needed a mantra, but instead counted...that always seems to distract me. As the intense pain comes (I call them my contractions..lol) I count and tell myself it's always over by 100...which it never makes it to. Count count count! That's the only way to get through.
But at the end of the day, I just realized it certainly wasn'y anything I ate...could have been stress, could have been anything. If I try to figure out what it was, it only causes me more worry, ya know? If I say it was the stress of driving out of town, then every time I drive out of town I'll make myself sick worrying about getting sick! lol. it sounds funny but it really is true for me. So, I just erase the day and am thankful I had MONTHS in between this attack and the last!
Hope you're better by now!
Aly

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