IBS Tales

Over the weekend I developed a new and very exciting symptom which I feel I should record for posterity. The new symptom has confirmed my belief that IBS is a vibrant, energetic, ever-changing masterpiece of a disorder – not for me one of those stick-in-the-mud illnesses that gives you the same pain all the time, [...]

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Intestines have been a bit dodgy for the last couple of days. I don’t know why, but then I never know why, so nothing changes.
For some reason I just feel exhausted today. Tired of having to put up with this stuff for 16 years, tired of having to cope, but mostly just tired of wanting [...]

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So, I managed to cope with my friend’s big wedding extravaganza – hurrah and hurray. It was actually an almost ridiculously perfect occasion, perfect summer’s day, everyone looked beautiful or handsome as required and the reception was in a quite insanely lovely private school with acres of green lawn.
And then of course there was me [...]

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A fellow IBS sufferer has sent me a great quote about some people’s attitudes to IBS. She says:
“When people say ‘Have you tried drinking more water?’ or ‘Maybe you just need to learn to relax’ in that patronising and quite dismissive way, I feel like saying, look, I don’t say to you, ‘Have you tried [...]

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In the comments section of my last blog entry there was a discussion about what percentage of IBS sufferers could trace their symptoms back to stress, what percentage to gastroenteritis, what percentage to surgery, and so on. A member of the IBS Self-Help Group has kindly found a study which gives some figures for this [...]

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