IBS Targets the Anxious and Driven

Another article...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6297971.stm

 

Thanks I printed this out and I will read it this evening. I wanted to mention, my GI doctor's progress notes are untrue with somethings he wrote. Also, he even mentioned that he was not able to get me to focus due to me telling him about the Internet findings I have read. He doesn't think the interenet is a good source. I don't believe everything I find, but I do like to research.

I agree! I do know we all have to realize we aren't all the same. I know I could really get myself worked into a panic attack if I thought I had what everyone else has. I like the suggestions to the natural medications and also just being able to vent and know I am not alone.

I generally take what I read on the internet and apply logic to it. Does it make sense? Are the conclusions realistic? Can I see any errors in their conclusions? And more importantly, does this jive with something else I've already read. The more often I read about something reported in different places (especially in different studies), the more likely I am to believe it. I believe in arming myself with knowledge before I even approach a doctor because, due to past experience, I don't trust doctors very much. I also grew up in a house where both parents worked in the medical field, so I am used to being informed, not kept in the dark like regular people. You'd be amazed at how much more information my doctors would give my mother because they knew her and knew she was a nurse, than they would give your average person whom they thought too dumb to get it (in some cases they are right, but in many cases they are wrong and they don't try to tell the difference).

In that BBC, article, there's the person ONEDAY needs to see: Peter Whorwell, professor of medicine and gastroenterology in the School of Medicine and director of the South Manchester Functional Bowel Service, agreed that IBS is often not taken seriously enough.

Get yourself to Manchester and see that guy! Write him a sob-story e-mail about how you keep getting crappy doctors who won't treat your PCOS, won't even let you see a gyno, and who won't take your excruitating pain and bloody bowel movements seriously. I bet he'll help and arrange for you to see him (or one of his collegues) directly!

A lot of people get constipated with age. Anybody that deals with older people knows that (and your doctor should have known it too). I think it's like the article said--anxiety makes a bowel problem worse, it doesn't cause it. The people who were anxious and stressed never had IBS until they got the bacterial infection, then their anxiety seems to made it harder to get over. And, of course, people who weren't anxious got IBS after the bug too (even if at a lesser rate of occurence).

So true - my anxiety really makes my bowel go into overdrive!!!!!!