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I have been single for the last 3 years since ending a very serious relationship and about 5 months ago got in a new relationship. We are now very serious about each other but we live an hour and a half apart so I only see him on the weekends. My IBS has been pretty good but I have noticed that after he leaves on Sunday my stomache take about 3 days to go back to normal. I am IBS C with gas, so the whole weekend we spend together I am constipated and can barely pass the gas I need to. I was wondering if it was just me or if the IBS was what caused that! It's not a very good cycle because by the time I see him on Friday I'm pretty good again and then it gets all screwed up by us being intimate. But I definitely don't want to stop that part of our relationship! He is very understanding but I am also going through chemo for breast cancer so I don't want to throw too much on him at once. He is very sympathetic about everything going on and he does know about my IBS just not the part that intimacy can be uncomfortable for me because of it.

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Melinda
IBS-A but leans toward C mostly

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