Male or Female?

I'm sure we've all heard that IBS is most common in women.... I would like to see the ratio here at HW.  Please participate and give us your gender.  (Hopefully the results will pop up - I have never done a poll here.)

7Lil,

I would keep in mind that there might be a possibility that women are more likely to respond to this type of poll. Just a thought!

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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - Thomas Fuller
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Symptoms began in 1996. Diagnosed April 2005 w/ Crohn's.
Current treatment: Remicade, Entocort, Azasan, Prevacid
30 yrs old & married to a supportive husband, 13 yr old stepson.

so, are men less likely to get IBS, or less likely to want to talk about their poop?


<--boy

If the menstral cycle affects women's digestion, then IBS may have some links to hormones or hormonal fluctuation which are more prevelant in women than in men.

I would think that talking about pooh would be right up mens alleys (pun intended of course, LOL)...although it's probably all together different when they discuss in regards to health matters, funny creatures men are...most of them won't go to the doc even if they're on their deathbed, yet they catch a little cold and it's like the whole world is comming to an end...and they say us chicks are impossible to figure out, huh!

:) all in good fun boys, take no offense, besides, you know it's true :)