Happiest childhood in the world, great parents and family, loved school and did well, got hit with my first attack playing in a neighbor's backyard on a gorgeous summer day. Just - bam! - out of the blue, and I blacked out cold from the pain. I was nine years old, and that was the beginning of my IBS. There was absolutely nothing that can be pinned as a physical or mental trigger that would have started this whole thing. I was also nowhere near puberty, so it wasn't anything hormonal.
I do think after hearing from so many other people with IBS that I'm the exception, not the rule, so Lana Marie may be onto something. There are lots of theories about IBS that explain a good subset of folks with the disorder. The problem is that there are always lots of exceptions to the theories.
- H
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