Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Help! Anyone else out there like me?

I just want to know if anyone out there experiences my particular symptoms. I was diagnosed IBS years ago. My main symptom is VERY VERY SLOW gut motility. It's amazing how much I eat and how little comes back out! I've always been this way. I had a colonoscopy 7 years ago and they found that my colon is twice as long as it should be "due to chronic constipation" over the years. I only go every now and then and I can never go when I'm on vacation (weird, I know). And whenever I go to a book store, if I'm not thinking about it, I need to go. It's some sort of strange mind-gut association that is beyond me.

Anyway, I had a baby 18 months ago, my first one. Since then my gut has seemed to gradually slow down even more. Worse than it's ever been. I now never feel like I've completely eliminated my bowels, ever. And I weigh at least 10 lbs less now than I did before I was pregnant. I don't know if the pregnancy changed my metabolism or what but I only weigh around 112 lbs and I'm 5'7". I don't know what's going on. So I'm going in for another colonoscopy (fun) next Monday. And I'm kind of freaking out that there's something else going on and I'm really scared.

So is there anyone else out there with similar symptoms? Anyone else out there who has a story to tell with how pregnancy may have affected their IBS?

P.S. My GI doctor put me on Rx Miralax temporarily and I'm also taking Acacia. Neither of which does much if anything.

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