Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Hi, it's Not-Sore-Anymore...PLEASE READ MY REPLY! I'm a lot like you!

This was posted on the fitness board but it appears to be frozen on me. I'll reply here.

All you wrote is in red here.

My main symptom is VERY VERY SLOW gut motility.

Yep, that used to be me, before the diet etc. big time. Usual poop was every few days, one poop, often marbles.

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.

Oh my God! I finally don't feel like a weirdo!!! Yes, when I'm on vaca, there's either NOTHING, or depending on the water, I can't get OFF the pot. And bookstores and music stores, that's me! I NEVER understood that! Maybe it's some sort of animalistic anxiety thing in there that gives me the poops. Never fails. So strange, hey? But only EVER in a bookstore, music store, or art stores. Maybe it's the high walls???

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.

During pregnancy, I had NORMAL soft poops 3 times a day. I had a few serious pain and D attacks diagnosed as the flu that sent me off to the hospital.

MY IBS was milder and unknown, till my DD turned 2(she's 2.5 now). I got way worse, enough to seek diagnososis finally. I was very C for a week at a time, then it'd break with an excruciating bout of D for 2 days every week or so.
Now, I have some C and hardly ANY D, but have stabilized big time due to Heather's diet and recommendations. YAY! I still have pain bouts but they're short lived, I know how to avoid them, and I can control it all now.

I do appear to have very little peristalsis in the end of the large intestine, and often, poop DOES get stuck in my rectum and I feel like I PUT something up there. I have to sometimes push it out from the outside.Yuch!

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.

I kind of wish we were alike there. I was my pre-preg. weight a few days after giving birth,cool, but I gained AFTER, up to 15-20 extra pounds, and some are sticking around pretty seriously. Let us know how that colonoscopy goes, OK?

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?

I hope this makes you feel a bit less weird. I know it did for me!! I would definitely get the big weight loss checked out, OK?

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Shannon, IBS A, happily stable! (well, mostly)

Edited by Sore_No_More (06/24/05 09:16 PM)

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