What it Feels Like to Have an IBS Flare | Jo Coates
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2018
- From stomach gurgles to painful bloating, the urgent need for bowel evacuation to extreme lethargy, I'm sharing exactly how it feels to have an IBS flare.
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Anybody else watch IBS vids when your currently having a flare up?
How do I make people understand the severity of it when they say, 'its just a belly ache, you'll be fine'. The guilt kills me. Like you said. Only people with IBS understand.
I relate to you so much. I've had ibs for years and I've had enough. Unless you've got it nobody can understand the pain.
Just discovered your channel today. I have IBS-D, and currently am going through a bad flare.oh the gurgles. My stomach cramps up. If the flare is bad, I have to stay home, but I take Immodeum or Bentyl. Anxiety is a trigger, plus spicy foods and anything with tomatoes. Vick's Vapor Rub helps the pain surprisingly.
How it feels ‘ take 5 laxatives and go out in public wearing white pants ‘ haha
Please keep talking and raising awareness for IBS! As a long term IBS sufferer I have felt judged, isolated and ashamed for years about my condition and it’s relation to my anxiety and I find these videos so relatable that it eases me and love hearing people talk honestly about it because I am finally able to laugh with someone about how shit (pardon the pun) this condition is !!! Xx thanks so much for flying the flag of awareness it’s so important xx so much respect for you !!
I completely understand all of this. My stomach acts the same way. I get anxiety just leaving the house, due to being afraid I won't make it to the bathroom, if I have to go while I am out. I make sure I know where all bathrooms are every where I go. I won't go any place that doesn't have a bathroom. I can't take that risk. I get completely drained after as well. It takes all my energy.
This is a strange thing to say as I've never actually met you Jo, but we're the same age with the same type of ibs and I feel really proud of you for keeping a full time job and for going abroad for your dream wedding! Duloxetine has been a life changing medication for me and I actually haven't had an episode of diarrhoea for a year now. I still can't quite believe it, and the pain is still there but it's more like the dull aches you describe after a flare-up rather than the awful cramps that make you gasp, double over, sometimes burst into tears!
Man I hate having IBS and most people don't believe you.. I love my family but when you don't have a good support system is can be even harder. Thank you to all who take the time and try to help people with this disorder.
Thank you for sharing. This is exactly what I go through. I’m glad you shared how hard it is for you to make plans, and how bad you feel for disappointing people. I felt that in my soul! ❤️
My IBS makes me throw up every time I eat junk food.
Thank you for making me not feel alone.
Thank you so much for this, I've felt so alone with this, now suffering for about 2decades now with this horrible thing. Like you, I too have IBS-D, I've missed so many family functions , ect. Even some co-workers stopped inviting me to things, because I would always flake out at the last moment to this. Only my family and a few close friends know about this now, but it took me years to tell them about it, because I was so embarrassed about it. And' I also get very exhausted after a bowel movement, probably my exhaustion comes from actually having both IBS -D & C, and if I get everything out on the first one, I'm very very lucky. Usually if I go, I have to wait around to go again, before I leave the house. I could go on and on about my experience, but I truly just want to thank you so very much, for making this video. Now I know that, I'm not the only one in this world with this horrible disease.
Yay a new video ❤️ congratulations on your wedding ❤️
This is so helpful for people who don't understand to try and understand, thank you.
What a brilliant video. Sums it all up. The planning takes the enjoyment out of every long trip or social event. It's a horrible issue and can be debilitating but like you say, you'll never know unless you're in that position. People say "well just go the toilet..."... and they don't get the anxiety if you're sitting there up a mountain enjoying the views with not a toilet in sight. Takes the living out of life.
You’ve helped me so much with my ibs and I feel really good. I used to have panic attacks due to my ibs and severe anxiety I didn’t want to go out and go to school but now I feel so much better and I thank you so much for all the tremendous help!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏
Suffered with IBS for nearly 30 years. I've
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
can you do a video on what you eat when you have a flare up please or a what you eat in a day xx