Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: POLL: Describe your IBS Symptoms

1. Type of IBS, D, C or Both?
I am mainly C, but alternate with D. The pain with the D is the worst!

2. How many times do you go to the bathroom a day?
For the first time in my life, I go 1 or 2x when I wake up and then I'm done.

This has only been since I started the fiber supplements. Before that, I has pebbles (and gas

) all day for several days, then pain, then D.

3. How often do you get an attack?
I have improved tremendously since I started Heather's diet. I used to have symptoms everyday, and then actual attacks every two weeks or so. They would last for 2 or 3 weeks. It sucked!

3. What other symptoms do you have?
Again, symptoms have all but disappeared, but it used to be nausea, pain, pressure, bloating, urgency. Now it's just urgency and some gas.

4. When did you first got IBS, what was the trigger?
I have always been constipated, and have always been sensitive to greasy foods, but the trouble really started 2 years ago after a bad reaction to buffet food in Las Vegas (while on a romantic 10th anniversary trip- so much for the romance, huh?!?!)

5. What foods can't you tolerate?
fatty foods, artificial sweeteners (diet soda gives me the runs!), gassy veggies, soy milk

6. What are you currently taking for IBS?
Citrucel in the am, benefiber in the pm (for some reason, citrucel agrees with me in the morning but makes me gassy/bloated at night), acidophilus, Prozac. The fiber supps have been the number 1 most effective tool so far.

7. Were you officially diagnosed? What test did your doctor run?
I've had a CT done, also had my gall bladder checked. My doc told me I have IBS after asking tons of questions and
reviewing the test resuls.

8. Does your IBS depress you?
Yes! BUT IT'S GETTING BETTER, thanks to fiber supps, eating (mainly) safe foods, and the Prozac. I used to be practically housebound, but now I can leave with very little worry or anxiety. My life has improved SO MUCH since I started Heather's diet. I still worry some about "unknown" foods and gas problems (when I get nervous I get gas!)

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