I had it really bad in my early 20's - really bad - like needing to go to the toilet no less than 12 times a day.
I found that the thing that helped the most - the IBS Inner Health that you get. That helped keep it under control - and also since having babies mine has gotten heaps better. I think having the OB play with my bowel shocked it back to normal or something
My naturopath and I believe that I have a mild form of it. She has been giving me some digestion tonics to help out. I find if I minimise my wheat intake and overall carb intake thing radically improve. Foods often promoted for good bowel habits such as All bran and Sultana bran are just plain evil for me. I am much better off with oats based cereals, good old porridge works wonders and if I can't be bothered cooking it then I have Carman's fruit free muesli.
I have it too and its mainly stress/anxiety related, although i do have certain 'trigger' foods which i try to avoid. I always carry around with me tablets to take if i have an episode and need to. I make sure that i eat really healthy and also take inner health plus tablets from the chemist to keep by bowels in check. I have found that when i was pg i didnt have 1 episode nor have i since. Sometimes i still get the anxiety feeling but its definately not like anything before being pg. My Ob mentioned that alot of ladies find it gets better with pregnancy.
My triggers are coke, pepsi and the likes, tomatoes, grapes and other fruit/vegies with edible skin. SOme days I am fine, other days I am awful. I am yet to find out if it is certain foods together which trigger me off... oh, some days I can't tolerate milk either. My IBS usually lessens during pregnancy which is great.
stress is a HUGE trigger - i can feel perfectly fine and something happen now to distress me and within 20 minutes i'm in trouble. DH has made a habit of letting me know where he's at with work and stuff cos if i try calling and can't get him for more than half an hour (generally overnight when i know he should be driving) i'm in terrible pain and needing to go.
i also find any fatty foods trigger an attack - and in particular, macca's nuggets!
i've found a low GI diet has helped a lot - i guess it's the eating of the whole foods rather than the processed crap. if i eat white bread instead of multigrain, i'm in trouble.
i kept a food diet for a while and found things like KFC or anything cooked in oil would trigger it - until KFC came out with their breast fillet pieces - so now i can still have a treat now and again! i am able to almost completely control it now with diet, and being pg, i haven't had a lot of the issues some have with constipation cos when i get uncomfy, i do the norty thing and have something bad to get stuff moving!
ooh, the other thing that triggered REALLY bad episodes was the Pregnyl shots with the IUI/IVF! i got the most horrific attacks - i'm guessing that i may have had a weird reaction to the progesterone level changing cos i'd get a flare everytime AF arrived, and then when pg, i had nasties for about four or five weeks... weird....
Silly me forgot about stress. I remember back when I was working fulltime and if things got stressful I was on the toilet most of the morning. Whilst life has its stresses now, I find it to not be as bad when I was working.
Up an Go is also terrible for me as a food, if you can call it that.
i've had it since i was a little kid, it runs in my family, anything can trigger mine really, if i hven't eaten a lot of veges in a day, i am severely constipated. i have actually been in hospital with it 3 times, each time, i hadn't been to the loo in over 2 weeks. basically, i have to drink heaps of water and lots of veges, but i too haven't found it as bad since the kids. that said, i didn't go for 2 weeks after matilda was born, and got the worst case of piles when i finally went, thanks to a bourbon and ciggie!
I think i have it, i kept waking up at like 1-2am with the WORST cramps and (warning TMI) the runs i went to an after hours medical centre and they said it may be that. I've tried to narrow it down and i think its just too much junk or something but i havent had it for a little while now...fingers crossed it stays away. My chiro adjustments may be contributing to it staying away too, apparently that can help
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