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that's an "attack" to me... add: sweating, chills, shaking, dizziness, wanting to vomit, stabbing pain in the lower right and left abdomen (in addition to the cramping) and the feeling that you would rather die than experience the next 15 minutes.

the problem was, for awhile there last year, that was happening to me on a daily basis (multiple times a day), for many weeks at a time. naturally, that wore me out and then being tired makes me have D, then i got more tired.... as you can see, a situation that feeds itself.... that's what i mean when i say i had an attack for 2 months last January. it was technically a series of attacks multiple times daily from 2 days before Christmas to late February. to me, that's "one attack." crud- i couldn't eat, sleep, or leave the house! i can call it whatever i want!

prior to that, i had diarrhea every day for about a year, maybe longer. sometimes i had attacks, other times just "the regular diarrhea." and by "the regular" i mean upwards of 12 trips to the bathroom in a day, 8 or 9 of them before noon!

PS: the upside... my last "attack" was so long ago i can't remember (may have been "the date from hell") and i have fairly normal BMs on a nice normal schedule (only once a day! GASP!) and no pain for weeks now. no bloaties, either!

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I get the nausea but the pain is higher up. Luckily no chills or shaking for me, but let's not leave out straining and moaning in pain . It's sooooooo brutal. Pre-IBS diet, this would happen (for YEARS) maybe once or twice a week, sometimes not at all. (Although two attacks in one day -- which I attribute to an entire day of pizza, chicken fingers, french fries, and pop at the NCAA basketball tournament -- is what made me go for it with the IBS diet.)

As I've stated previously, bloating after I eat is a given that I can (must) live with and my BMs are never "normal" but luckily I don't have them constantly -- in fact, I have BMs only every 2-3 days. I am pretty bummed out though because I have now been on the diet for a month and I had an attack Saturday a.m. Boo!!!! I almost threw in the towel on the diet yesterday in favor of a revised version (no more fried or extremely fatty foods but bring everything else back). I am holding the course for now, but when my symptoms are not being dramatically reduced, it is tough to live like this for only small improvement. Grrrrrr....


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