This is fascinating to me because I was just about to say that I was on the combined pill for years and suffered terribly, but having come off and onto the mini pill my issues have almost all resolved...never in all my years of begging doctors to help me has anyone ever suggested it could be the combined pill which is pretty horrifying reallySo I found mine is triggered by hormones so the best way mine is controlled is the mini pill but i take a double dose.
It’s interesting you say this...I had an ibs flare up for months last year, partly because I has stress going on and health anxiety, I was going 5 times a day and it was loose BUT I had my implant taken out in August and as soon as that happened it stopped!So I found mine is triggered by hormones so the best way mine is controlled is the mini pill but i take a double dose. I used to be on the depo injection but the week before due I had flare up and week after I was still bad. Now I barely have any problems. This is probably the longest I've gone (8 months) without any real flare ups. I tried every diet, medication etc around. Had endoscopy, colonoscopy, surgery etc and nothing. I'm coeliac so don't have gluten anyway, but even on low fodmap food I was still ill but now I can eat a normal diet and be fine. Might be worth those who have tried everything and still struggling looking into.
So I found mine is triggered by hormones so the best way mine is controlled is the mini pill but i take a double dose. I used to be on the depo injection but the week before due I had flare up and week after I was still bad. Now I barely have any problems. This is probably the longest I've gone (8 months) without any real flare ups. I tried every diet, medication etc around. Had endoscopy, colonoscopy, surgery etc and nothing. I'm coeliac so don't have gluten anyway, but even on low fodmap food I was still ill but now I can eat a normal diet and be fine. Might be worth those who have tried everything and still struggling looking into.
Thats the type i get. I sometimes look pregnant with it, and its really noticeable because im slim. It can be very uncomfortable. It can also make you anxious because you know when you are not going to be able to go. If colpermin doesnt work i use fybogel but only on rare occasions if its been 3 days or so. It can also make you nauseous. Mine is also worse at ovulation time, when i am bloated anyway. Sorry for you xI had a seriously bad bloating experience yesterday. I was at work, too, and I was desperate to go home and change into something comfortable .
I’m actually due my depo on 10th match (a few days away) but I thought I was because I’d eaten rice the night before that had triggered it.
Without being too gross, I have the opposite of going to the toilet and it being loose. I get constipated and am really gassyI try and hold it in at work which makes it worse
I have tried the fybogel sachets in the past and they didn’t do anything for me. Dulcolax don’t even work!! I try and make sure I drink lots of water and eat prunesThats the type i get. I sometimes look pregnant with it, and its really noticeable because im slim. It can be very uncomfortable. It can also make you anxious because you know when you are not going to be able to go. If colpermin doesnt work i use fybogel but only on rare occasions if its been 3 days or so. It can also make you nauseous. Mine is also worse at ovulation time, when i am bloated anyway. Sorry for you x
Yeah that’s my worry,I don’t want to make it worse but I’d love to feel empty haha!! SorryIm not sure about that , your stomach is so sensitive it could possibly irritate it even more. x
I feel ya. When nothing has triggered me for ages, I almost don’t want to think about what would happen if something did because I feel like I will jinx it!In the middle of a massive flare at the moment, no idea what's triggered it. I was going really well for a few weeks as well
I just feel horrendous. Stomach cramps, bloated so all my clothes feel uncomfortable, not sure what's safe to eat and what's not. Even though I'm starving hungry I feel so anxious to eat. This is horrendous
The toilet while you’re out situation is one of the worst parts of it I think. Going out where there aren’t any toilets like parks, or places where you can’t quickly get to the toilet (bars, festivals, anywhere busy really) makes me feel so anxious. I feel like even if I’m not unwell at that time, I still can’t relax at places until I know where the toilet is and that it’s there if I need to use it.Is anyone on here also a member of the IBS Network or similar forum? I bought one of those cant wait cards off there, and a radar key for the times you're absolutely desperate but touch wood I've never had to use them yet!
Touch wood, I’ve not been constipated for quite some time, but when I have that awful dead weight in my stomach when I am constipated makes me consider a colonic!This is the bane of my life! Even at my slimmest this could leave me looking like I was pregnant!
I’ve read that colonic irrigation is good for it and am seriously tempted...anybody tried it?
Oh yeah I get that too! The days I do feel like I’ve gone properly I feel so fresh like I have a spring in my stepTouch wood, I’ve not been constipated for quite some time, but when I have that awful dead weight in my stomach when I am constipated makes me consider a colonic!
sometimes when I have gone to the toilet, I don’t feel like I have properly been/finishedI guess I just need to eat more fibre and drink more water but too much fibre can make me worse!
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