Thanks.
I can see that there's such a spectrum of responses to this that it's got to be a lot of (probably painful!) trial and error for each individual.
The reason I asked this is because I see my daughter getting an earlier and earlier sense that something's not right BEFORE the physical symptoms start. She gets a weird sense that she can't really describe very well - it seems like the aura of migraine or even of epilepsy that some people describe prior to an attack. Oddly, I think this is helping her lately. I mean to say, originally she either just felt increasing pain or would suddenly be hit with 'the big one.' When attacks decreased a bit, she began noticing this 'feeling' which prefaced a bad attack (by 5-20 min, I'd guess). Because of that she naturally became more aware of her 'signs' (as she was petrified of them!) and we started trying to react ASAP in various ways, attempting to see if anything helps. The thing that seems to help the most has been immediately swigging Imodium and then using a relaxation technique; lately, NO attack has been following that . . . wow.
I wish we could try the pep caps in these circumstances (maybe that would work, too) but she isn't able to swallow even tiny pills!
Does anyone recognize a scenario like I described above? (or tried to describe - it's hard to put into words) I don't know how usual/unusual it might be.
[Maybe I should mention that my daughter has stuck to the diet and done the hypno program, among other therapies, in the time since her worst symptoms surfaced, so perhaps any/all of those may have contributed to her increasing awareness or something. ?]
grateful, but still trying for more improvement,
kem (daughter w/ibs-d)
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Thanks to all who replied . . .
