Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: does anyone else have bad days right out of the blue?

This was my first visit to the psych who said there were 2 problems - 1. accepting my disability and 2. dealing with the anxiety and problems medicating myself causes. I have been thinking about what she said ever since. I have never thought of IBS as a disability and I'm not going to start now. I am also not going to accept it. I am going to do everything I can to get better and assume that I will be well some day. As Nelly has posted, I will accept any medication that helps me to be and feel normal. As for the anxiety advice, racking it up so that I eventually stand in front of a class and am prepared to have an accident so the anxiety can be dealt with, in my opinion, is nuts. I think what she was trying to do is to get me thinking about how bad can it be so I can see my fears are over the top. I still think this situation would be about as bad as it gets and something to be anxious about but perhaps I am not rational about this any more. I am anxious enough as it is. What I have been thinking about is that maybe my thinking on this is not normal. It's like the issue many of us have of not knowing anymore what it is like to have a normal digestive system and whether it is normal to have 3 bms in the morning and then to go 2 or 3 days without going at all. I have forgotten. I will try taking an extra half an immodium and I think I am going to try taking one immodium and one lomotil every day even if I haven't been for a couple of days. I just hope it doesn't block me up completely. Thank you all for replying. It means a lot having people to discuss this with who really understand.

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