I've had IBS for about 20 years... I've gone through many periods of "normal", when I wasn't watching my diet, most of which lasted around 1-2 years. I've never noticed any correlation to any other life happenings, though - sometimes I've been in my home state but sometimes not, sometimes I've been very stressed out and sometimes not, etc. These "good spells" were usually followed by at least a year of solid IBS flare.
Now that I'm on the diet, and sticking with it, I'll be interested to see if my "good spells" and "bad spells" alternate like they always used to. So far, I've been "good" for 2 years, with no signs of a relapse, so I'm hopeful - my "bad spells" got progressively worse each time, so I'm MORE than happy to give up the dairy/coffee/etc so-called normal in exchange for not being as sick as I was a few years ago!
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