Posted 1/16/2014 8:52 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everybody
First off, I didn't really know where else to post this on here and I decided that an IBS forum is best because I don't really know if I have it or not.
To get an idea of my embarrassing and upsetting problem, I'm going to have to do a bit of a story so sit tight...it all started off on holiday in California, where for the majority of the holiday I came down with really quite severe diarrhea after having an embarrassing accident in the car involving a shopping bag (it really wasn't pretty, but at least I didn't actually poop myself). Now it's important to note that this was HALF A YEAR AGO and life has been pretty much hellish ever since.
For the months following that, I would have on and off diarrhea (it's important to note that my diet was NOT a healthy one and I was consuming a lot of really bad things...I also maintained a bad diet since I was about 13 years old, filled with chocolate, lots of milk, energy drinks etc). Now it might not be that anything in my digestive system changed, but I never felt quite the same after my little accident in California and I think it could just have been me being paranoid.
At the end of last year and all throughout January of this year, it's gone back to being horrific again...really on and off and really unpredictable. I even had to run off my school bus about three times under the pretense of forgetting something at home when in fact I was in a huge bind and wouldn't have been able to survive the journey, it has also happened when I've been in the car and we are travelling medium to long journeys and I've had to ask either my Mum or Dad (I'm 16, just to clarify) to pull over at a services just to poop.
Eventually, after about the third time of running off the bus and running home, Mum had had enough and decided to send me to the GP, where we discussed this issue and I am now on a wheat free, dairy free diet for two weeks...I'm believed to be lactose intolerant and I hope to God that's the case.
Over the two weeks, I'm not supposed to have had diarrhea, but I have had two occasions where I have had it and I'm pooping really abnormally. When I'm getting ready in the morning, I have pooped, without fail, more than three times and twice there has been diarrhea.
I've been looking at other forums and it doesn't seem as if people are having the same issues at all, but I concluded that, now I'm on a wheat free, dairy free diet, maybe my body is in detox mode, where I am pooping regularly because my body is no longer being given the rubbish it has been fed for three plus years and is having to adapt to the new regime of things...but I honestly don't think it's true.
Emotionally, this is ruining my life at the moment, I can't manage long car journeys, I have constant feelings of urgency and paranoia AND isolation. I'm not as mobile as I used to be and I'm really embarrassed by what is happening to me.
Am I right? Is my body detoxing itself from all the bad stuff it's been fed, and if so how long is it going to last? I started my diet last week, if you're looking for a reference point.
Please can someone help me out with this problem, I have GCSEs in the summer and a four week trip to Africa and I don't want to have to be putting up with constant urgency and diarrhea all my life!