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Last month, I had a vaginal sonogram. When the doctor moved her little wand to my left side, I felt pain. It made me tense my insides up the way I do during sex when I feel the same pain. I was "ouching" throughout that portion of the exam and the doctor turned the monitor around so that I can see what she was seeing. Sonogram images are usually black and grey and what she showed me next to my left ovary was a huge portion of white. She said that it was all gas stuck in there and that my body will naturally release it but since it's due to IBS, it'll just form again.

My question is, how do you ladies deal with intimacy and avoid the severe IBS cramps that come after being intimate? I haven't been intimate since June and it's because I feel that it's not worth the pain I feel afterward, that and the sporadic nausea that may come from it as well.

The sonogram proved that there was nothing wrong with my insides--no fibroids etc.

Thanks and sorry for the TMI.

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Wendy IBS A thru Z
Taking it one day at a time...

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