What is stable for IBS-A people? It is permanent normalcy of bowel movements, sort of suspended in the middle between the 2 extremes of constipation and diarrhea? Have people here really attained that? Yes, I have read boasts by a couple people across the internet saying they achieved stability, then they usually hawk some alternative medicine pill (that on study only contains fennel and ginger) or expensive juice only found in Australia.
What is stability for IBS-A?
I am working hard on re-creating my relationship to IBS, because the way it works now is that if I have a firm bowel movement, I am happy. This means I am healthy. If I don't, then I am tense and unhappy and this means I am sick.
But those criteria only are relevant for non-IBS people, who certainly would feel sick if they had "D" for a few days, but for an IBS-A person it is part of the different phases of the moon, right?
One lady said she felt she was stable, yet confessed she just spent an entire month with "D". That don't seem stable to me! Is it an individual thing? Is stability possible with IBS-A? I loath the "D" because it still signifies that I am sick, but does it? I am trying to teach myself that I am well, just going thru that particular phase again.
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What is "stable" for IBS-A people?
