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I'm not sure what you mean exactly; something else physical or something psychological. As for anything else physical, I've posed the same questions to my doctor and GI but neither one of them went anywhere with it so I left it alone. As for anything psychological, we all know that's a tricky one because we all seem to end up dealing with psychological (anxiety) issues after dealing with IBS for an extended amount of time. The first question people/doctor's ask is what's your stress level. Well, I always say I think it's average...no better or worse than most people. And my GI's answer was that this might just be my body's way of dealing with stress. I think back to when I first started having problems and I was quite young from about 10 to 12 years old. Then it went away as fast as it came and I was fine throughout my teens and early 20's and then boom, seemingly overnight, there it was again. It's been about 10 years now. I never had any life altering event that could be the cause of this.

If you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them...thanks.

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IBS-D. Or so a doctor says.

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