Ibsyndrome

[Dee-M-See]

How long after a meal will you urgently need to go the Toilet
my reaction seems to take place within two hours
if I don't get to a toilet disaster its a trousers full job

[jennyjoan]

same here - I am now confirming I have Crohns - I just eat a tiny meal - within seconds pours into pants and trousers - that's why I don't leave my home unless I know their is a toilet near near by,. Very bad.

[ummmm]

Usually quite quickly but never at a risk of having an accident.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh JJ, sorry to read that - painful for you.


IBS varies in everyone, on bad days it can be 20 minutes after eating but I still have control.

[Sqad]

Mamy is correct.........it varies from person to person, from 10 mins after eating to 12 hours after eating.......that is of course if your IBS is food related......?

[FrillyPancake]

I have Colitis, Proctits and IBS to top it all off, and I find that anything from an ten mins to an hour and I am rushing, depending on what type of "mood" my tummy is in. Although since I was hospitalised for 5 days and put on intravenous IVF during a particularly nasty flare-up a few weeks ago I am now on 28 types of medication each day including 6 steroids to dampen it all down, and I am finding the urgency is far less than it used to be. It's a miserable thing to have, truly awful - I can sympathise greatly with anyone who has anything remotely similar. It's such an unpredictable thing to live with, and believe me there have been moments when my husband has had to come pick me up as I couldn't dare risk walking home the same route as I'd walked to get there.....It can come on that quickly. I have had to barge past people in my local Asda to get to the loo with seconds to spare. It can be very very distressing at times.

[FrillyPancake]

intravenous IVF? Where did that come from - steroids I meant to say!!!

[FrillyPancake]

Proctitis also meant to say - it's too early in the morning for me clearly!

[Cloverjo]

That must be difficult, frillypancakes. Thankfully, I don't have that problem, but I have had the problem of being sick after eating while on holiday recently. After throwing up on a plane and in a restaurant quite spectacularly, I carry a supermarket bag around with me, just in case. I know that's not going to help you though, Dee-M-See or frillpancakes.

[FrillyPancake]

It's a very difficult thing to come to terms with having Clover (although I know there are folk out there have far worse things than I do :-)), it makes life pretty grim at times....
It's very unnerving, being any age (but I am 37), female and trying to be "girly" and feminine and having this is almost too much to deal with. Especially having an 8 week flare and having to come to work etc before I was hospitalised eventually as it all just got too much for me. I was extremely bunged up as it (food you eat) won't cross the "picket line" so to speak as it's "broken". It's a very tiring thing to have at times as this can go from not going to rushing in a heartbeat as your body almost goes into "shock".
Thankfully very understanding family and friends around me, and I can explain to anyone I know how I am at any given time which really helps when I am feeling rough with it.
Seen me be out for lunch with family, straight after barging past people in Debenhams let's say, not knowing where the loo is, flailing blindly through the crowds to find the nearest lav, and as I say getting there with literally 5 seconds to spare. It's very very distressing, and something that (to begin with) I was very shy about discussing, but now I just say to people "we've all got a colon, a tummy and a rectum", we'd be in a sorry state if we didn't!!! ;-))) got to try and laugh it off, as it's true at the end of the day, we've ALL got one!!!! I JUST SAY "my bum's broken" these days, and people can kinda laugh with me.....it cheers me up too :-))))

[Sqad]

Frilly....that is a complicated story and it sounds as if you have ulcerative colitis, but what i don't understand is how does one make a diagnosis of IBS in addition?

[FrillyPancake]

Sqad, always had IBS since I was 16 - now been told it's UC + Proctitis along with the ever after IBS :-(

[Sqad]

Thanks......however, couldn't the diagnosis have been ulcerative colitis, when you were 16 years old? Did you have the appropriate investigations?

[EDDIE51]

IBS seems to be very common now, 3 of my family have it, but is there a clue as to the cause? I don't remember it being much of a problem say 20 years ago. Is a cause modern processed food / 'fast food' ?

[Sqad]

Eddie...good point and i agree. Also one mustn't exclude an emotional factor in IBS.

[FrillyPancake]

YUP! had numerous tests / laparoscopies, colonscopies, endoscopies, various specialists and GP's along the way - my mistake probably as chopped and changed surgeries etc and notes got lost / started from scratch multiple times with numerous GP's and never got a proper diagnosis till last November! Went private through my old work and they found out what was the cause of my years and years of misery!

[FrillyPancake]

stress

[FrillyPancake]

certainly doesn't help me when I'm "flaring" it does exacerbate it but doesn't necessarily cause it if that makes sense....

[FrillyPancake]

Consultant said eat what you like, don't eat what you don't like, he said there is no cause in my case, certainly no cure and it's just well....a mystery!

[Sqad]

OK Frilly...thanks.

[woofgang]

EDDIE and Sqad. I think its one of those things that has always been around but now has a name, also its one of the things that are discussed more openly. Looking back I have had the same symptoms for around 50 years, since childhood in fact. When I was a child, it was called a “bilious attack”.