I've been reading everyone's reply and feel enlightened. I guess bec. I have almost always been C. This is very interesting. Most of the time I wish I was D bec. I am so miserable. In my case I am as needy of a bathroom all the time as some say w/D.I have to stay home all morning or until I finish going to the bathroom.It's like it takes me an hr. to relax in that area each day enough to go.Then I only go a little,so I try to distract myself by doing something mundane. I have to keep going just a little all morning. Doing any exercise or running an errand will stop the system for the rest of the day. Then I just feel like my stomach is stretched and hard and sore all day and prob. until the next day or whenever I can get straightened out. If for some reason I have to leave the house early I spend all day attending to my stomach and rushing to find a bathroom whenever I have the slightest twing that might be a call to "go".It's also a day full of gas and trying to avoid being around anyone when that hits.It just feels awful to be clogged up.Nothing fits and I don't want to do anything.I hate this,so I try real hard to avoid it. I know a lot of it is tied to anxiety which I need to work on. I just returned from visiting my daughter for 2 weeks and it was so hard to avoid a major problem w/my tummy. I often feel like a prisoner to my bowels,guess everyone else here does too. Thanks for all the replies and th question. Suzy