Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( IBS ) PART 1
Another new article about how I was able to completely cure myself of IBS for one full month: www.ibs-life.com My new IBS article about how guided meditations have helped to cure my IBS-related anxiety: www.ibs-life.com Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( IBS ) PART 1 (Part 1 of 2) Discussing what it’s like to live and travel with IBS ( Irritable Bowel Syndrome ), and an explaination of how I deal with some of the problems it causes in everyday life situations. My new website is dedicated to people who are living with IBS every day. It is currently being bolted-together, and will provide resources and lots of self-help freebies including an email magazine. Please give me another few weeks to get everything in place! (this was written 28th Oct 2008) Rick
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25 Comments
Jul 31, 2010 9:28 pm |
@rickvanman ill try that
Jul 31, 2010 10:01 pm |
@rickvanman I will Thanks!
Jul 31, 2010 10:55 pm |
@EarthWarZone probably from something you ate the previous day. Keep a food diary so you have a record of everything you have eaten, then, one item at a time, stop eating things on the list if you are bad the next day. hopefully you’ll be able to figure out what triggers the problems.
Jul 31, 2010 11:06 pm |
@rickvanman I stopped drinking milk but It still happens and I only get diarrhea in the mornings so I’m not sure If I get diarrhea from last nights food or the morning ones. btw I’m eating vegetables now but I still get diarrhea.
Jul 31, 2010 11:40 pm |
@EarthWarZone Not sure, does it happen if you don’t drink milk?
Jul 31, 2010 11:46 pm |
@FilmerStatus Take steps to track down your triggers. For many people, including me, it’s dairy products like milk. Cut them out completely from your diet for a while and see if things improve.
Aug 1, 2010 12:43 am |
I have IBS. im fifteen. my dad had it. and now i have it. it sucks. my stomach kills all the time. im affraid to go out. whenever i go to shows and concerts i have to be constently aware. and im nervous this will continue for the rest of my life
Aug 1, 2010 1:07 am |
I’m not sure if I got IBS but every morning when I eat or drink milk I have to go to the bathroom. And I usually have that burning sensation when Im done. Is that a sign of IBS?
Aug 1, 2010 1:51 am |
try barely max. works for me..
Aug 1, 2010 2:35 am |
Since you’ve cured your IBS, do you still eat the foods that you’ve avoided before?
Aug 1, 2010 2:51 am |
@IFeelYourRain Cutting out Milk was the best decision I made. Being Lactose Intolerant has almost the same effect as IBS. Take out all Milk products, Spicy food, Caffeine, Greasy Food and you will feel a lot better. Try having yogourt twice a day or taking Probiotic Capsules. My God… you have no idea how much probitics help…
IBS will never go away. But your Diet is at least 50% of the problem. The rest is physcholigcal or just plain old random and unpredictable. Good luck!
Aug 1, 2010 3:30 am |
@MrDesperateArtist not sure.
Aug 1, 2010 4:19 am |
is that IBS if your system cannot easily adjust to type of water you’ve drink??
Aug 1, 2010 4:41 am |
I keep my symptoms to zero with sodium bromide. Its usually sold in pool and spa shops but it works.I take 1 tsp in water and in about 15 minutes the muscles start relaxing. They used to sell it as bromo-seltzer but they stopped using it in the 70′s because it can be toxic if you take too much.
Aug 1, 2010 5:27 am |
@IFeelYourRain Sorry to hear what you’re going through. Here’s a tip I recently discovered – cut out milk from your diet. I recently did this and my physical IBS problems almost completely went away.
Aug 1, 2010 5:47 am |
I have IBS. It is pretty embarassing.
Whenever I tell people that I have it, they think that I just “poo alot”…
That’s not even close… you know?
I missed half of the days in high school.
I can’t go anywhere out of the house unless I get ready all day, so I Can only go somewhere close at night.
I can’t work. I am 18 years old. My parents are mad at me for not having a job, but I don’t know what else to do. I’ve tried dieting and everything. Nothing works.
Aug 1, 2010 6:26 am |
@Schmidt54 @scalymanfish2 Hi great to hear you have a good doc – they seem quite rare these days!
Sure thing – feel free to link the video
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Aug 1, 2010 7:11 am |
I have ibs too, and it affects my life more than I like. Luckily I found a doc who really cares and helps me, so my life is sort of normal sometimes. I can totally relate to your story about the safe zones. Fo me, the pain is worse than the bathroom need, which is not an advantage at all.
Can I link your video to a German ibs forum (the guys helped me A LOT!)?
Aug 1, 2010 7:22 am |
I’m not keen on taking medication but these have helped to ease my anxiety big time. I would definitely recommend colofac or buscopan (talk to your GP about these). I know it’s maybe not ideal taking medication but for the mental side of things it gets you back in control of the situation and stops the IBS from controlling you. OK I’m finished now!
Aug 1, 2010 8:03 am |
Since being on these I’ve felt like a new person! I too had the same as you… anxiety about leaving the house and going places in case I needed the loo, feeling very uncomfortable if I was going to a new place and having to explain myself if I needed to dash off in the middle of something. But since taking the colofac (this is an anti spasmotic drug which regulates the movement of intestines back to how they’re meant to be) I no longer feel as anxious.
Aug 1, 2010 8:39 am |
cont – I think that this was the cause of the IBS now).
A year later my symptoms started… stomach cramps and needing to rush to the loo four or five times a day and on good days I’d still have random bouts of diarrhoea. I cut out gluten for about 3 months and it eased it to some extent. I’ve recently started to take colofac (meberverine hydrochloride) which my GP prescribed as the random toilet issues started to come back and I have exams now so I needed a quick fix.
Aug 1, 2010 9:30 am |
Hi Rick, Just seen you’re video. I think years ago I would have found talking about my toilet habits to a complete stranger very weird indeed but now I’m used to it! lol! Basically, I’ve recently been told I probably have IBS after a year of toilet troubles. I had a bad bout of food poisoning about 2 years ago (I needed the loo desperately but had to hang on for about 40 mins before I could go as I was on a toiletless boat in the middle of the sea.
Aug 1, 2010 9:47 am |
Hm .. unfortunately, not all of us can afford a van. I’m 19, I’ve got it, and I can’t even fathom how I’d be able to get a job, let alone keep one down. It’s really ruined my life before it’s even begun.
Aug 1, 2010 10:27 am |
all true- every journey should be planned..i love to travel and go out with friends but had to decline most of the time coz im worried about my condition. Sometimes I ask God what did I do to have this condition but I know He will always be tehre to help. This disease seems to control my life. Im afraid to fly on planes for fear of having IBS attacks, i fear goin on meetings, presentations as im thinking I would have attacks..
Aug 1, 2010 11:13 am |
I’m 14 and I’ve had it since 5th grade cut they put me on a prescription laxitive thing and it helps alot and I do monthly cleanses
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