Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: My Year in 2007 Review (Long)

Wendy you sound so much like me it's not funny! My problem too is mostly anxiety related. I have stayed home from work countless times and ended up being fine. When I was a teenager and still undiagnosed, I stayed home from school a minimum of once a week and miraculously my symptoms would suddenly go away. I was scared to death I would have an attack on the bus or in class. University wasn't so bad because you could go to the bathroom without asking the teacher for permission - haha. My anxiety has gotten better - to a point - now I only get anxious if I am going somewhere I've never been, and/or will have to socialize with people I don't really know. And when I have to go somewhere I know I can't easily get to a bathroom - I've sent my husband grocery shopping without me before because I had an "accident" on my way out of a grocery store once (I WISH all grocery stores had public washrooms - most don't!). I've reached the point where if I feel the tiniest flutter in my stomach, I don't want to go anywhere. I even get anxious if my own bathroom is occupied by someone else - what if I have to go while they're still in there???

Before I started EFI, I could often eat the most horrible things without a hint of any problem - pizza, fast food burgers, fries, milkshakes, giant salads, you name it. But things like Greek food or Chinese would give me problems about 1 in 3 times. Sometimes there was just no rhyme or reason to it at all.

I'd been doing great this past week and a half or so, but I don't know if it's the diet - or the fact that I've been off work for the holidays. I go back to work tomorrow, and this morning I had D.

BUT, I start my period tomorrow too, so it could just be IBS-made-worse-by-PMS kicking in, OR the fact that I had a few unsafe cookies last night. It's enough to make a person go NUTS!!!

I didn't mean to turn this into a big rant

but just wanted to let you know you aren't alone!

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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!

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