How do you manage daily life with IBS-D?

Posted by pjss48 @pjss48, Dec 11, 2018

I have IBS with diarrhea. I'm taking med for it. Had several bowel movements already today. How do you get things done in house and go out on errands and going to Dr appointments? Driving me crazy!

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I am 73 and have dealt with this since I was 4. At age 10 I knew where every bathroom was in Disneyland. I plotted out rest stops when I traveled. I made lifestyle changes for travel.
Hormones made it worse, stress made it worse….
Exercise made it better… probably because it reduced stress. Best wishes that you find something that works for you .

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@cjval52 has anybody considered maybe you have CSID Congenial Sucrose Isomaltase Deficiency? Being such a young age when you started with "IBS-D". But it is also for those adults when it's not congenial it is called Aquired Scurose. and it starts when we are older... which occurs because your intenstines have seen injuries that affect the enzyme that is created and thus your body can't produce the enzyme. Either way it causes diarrhea and all the sysmptoms that get labeled as IBS-D. But it is a much over looked thing and there are tests to prove it or not.

It just angers me to know these tests are there...the knowledge is there yet even GI docs won't look at things or test for things. Going thru that myself and doing my own research and learning things and now demanding these tests.

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