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and new in regards to what this is all about.

"Are doctors focusing on fixing the wrong thing when a patient shows signs of having irritable bowel syndrome?

http://www.thewgalchannel.com/health/3739601/detail.html

although this is short and could have gone more indepth.

An impoartant part of the above information is in every human there is the fight or flight responce and the relaxation responce. Some people have a very hard time with the relaxation responce and are more anxiety prone and in fight or flight more then others.

But these are basic physiological responces to stressors in all humans, they just effect the problem of IBS more and the neurotransmitters and hormaones and peptides, that are part of having IBS and the brain gut communication that every human has, but is dysregulating in IBS.

Not all of this is changing your thoughts, I just have not gotten to other parts of this yet either, some of this is meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, CBT and HT and other methods that illict the relaxation responce as opposed to the fight or flight responce which triggers the stress responce.

Knothappy, I to went to a psycologist, she was not helpful either, because she was just into talk therapy, did not understand IBS, although she suffered from migraines herself and told me to go back to the gi doc after moonths f seeing her, but with all doctors, there are different kinds and different specaities, she was the wrong one, that is what happened to you above, they did not teach you how to really truely relax along with working on changing your thoughts, its a combination of things, that specialist in IBS use and there is also some doctors who "getit" and some that don't, so like other doctors, you have to find the right one, a. for you and B. that "gets it" to help with IBS.

These things can also be done with medications, its not an exclusive one or the other, some people might even need meds at first, to help get more relaxed.

In IBS it is the combination of things that have also been shown to help, treating the gut and the brain.

The above is also not becusae IBS is "all in the head" it is not, it is a very real physical problem.

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My website on IBS is www.ibshealth.com

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