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Posted 2/18/2014 6:32 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone, I am new to this website but I wanted to seek advice or just see what other people have to say about this.

I normally suffer from IBS, I don't technically think I have either type C or D but I guess I would say that i lean more towards D. I always have hated these horrible flare ups and symptoms but I didn't realize how much I am kind of used to it. about a week ago I contracted the norovirus (stomach flu) and suffered for the first day with the normal, getting sick and going D. After that the next 2 days were just me trying to feel better.

I am wondering for anybody else who has gotten the stomach flu what the after effects were on your bowels/system? My body is all out of wrack with me being more gassy, bloated, cramping, and always feeling like I need to go when instead its mainly gas. Anybody have any advice or similar experiences for when it got better or your system went back to "normal"? Really just want to feel better and stop hearing these excessive stomach noises. confused
Posted 2/18/2014 11:56 PM (GMT 0)
I had the stomach flu last week and I am still suffering the ill effects from my IBS. I was so sick with diarrhea, vomiting and cramps and gas!! I have had IBS since 1957 and at that time a doctor finally put me on Librax and it stopped my problem. I was on it for several yrs. and finally after no more attacks I took myself off it with no side effects. I have asked two doctors, Primary care and Gastroenterologist to give me Librax and they say its addictive and don't want to give it to me. I am now on Nortripline (which is a joke) and I was on steroids before that and they did nothing and just mess up your body. They keep having me come back and I have been checked for Crohn's, Celiac and finally decided it was IBS and now think it might be a "nervous stomach". I am beginning to wonder just how much kick back the doctors get from all these drugs that they force on you. I have just started a new diet on my own, eliminating, eggs, all diary, gluten, wheat, soy, sugar, corn and etc. and I was doing pretty well and then the flu hit me. It is such a delibitating disease. I wonder if it could be a parasite causing the problem. I do a lot of research and a lot of things come up that it could be. I have to stay home a lot because I am afraid to leave home and if I do I have to wear protection...I am weary from all this!
Posted 2/19/2014 1:00 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah I hear you. It truly is a horrible and cruel disease. Many people in my life just don't understand because they won't take the time to read about it or just understand it, so in turn I don't get much support with that. I mainly am having trouble with trying to find a job that I would like to work in where I don't have to worry about my problem as much. Just always so paranoid about it which, in turn, makes the symptoms worse. So basically a no win situation.

As I said I just got over the stomach flu from last Wed and am currently waiting for my body to try to get back to my "normal." Really would rather have my normal symptoms compared to these newer ones. I usually suffered from IBS-D and now it seems harder for me to go when I haven't changed anything about my diet, just had that stupid stomach flu....
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