I have two family members with IBS so what I've seen is:
- long painful morning poops no matter what
- certain foods (red meat, pasta, garlic, etc) cause pain or cramps
- eating a meal requires a trip to the bathroom after
- later in the dsy, depending on how many coffees or what food they ate, there may be a poop demon that needs to be exorcised before bed
- the feeling may strike at ant time and not give them much warning to get to a toilet so they have to stick close to a bathroom sometimes
I'm not talking about acute symptoms or if you eat something that triggers it, just their daily routine. Imagine if eating the wrong thing wrecked your insides, but eating the right thing only gave you tremendous pain, cramping, and poops. That's what you hope your day will be like :/
Anecdotal but whatever: I used to have what doctors diagnosed as IBS for about 10 years. Mostly it was constipation, lots of pain, cramping so bad I want morphine. I even went to the ER mutiple times cause I thought I was dying.
One day at the ER a doctor said "lets just do a CT scan" and he said "your appendix is fucked. we're taking it out". What's weird is I never had any pain in the right side of my abdominal when they pressed on it, even that day when they said it needed to be removed.
It's been 2 years and I feel like a new human being. Never had a single problem since.
- long painful morning poops no matter what
- certain foods (red meat, pasta, garlic, etc) cause pain or cramps
- eating a meal requires a trip to the bathroom after
- later in the dsy, depending on how many coffees or what food they ate, there may be a poop demon that needs to be exorcised before bed
- the feeling may strike at ant time and not give them much warning to get to a toilet so they have to stick close to a bathroom sometimes
I'm not talking about acute symptoms or if you eat something that triggers it, just their daily routine. Imagine if eating the wrong thing wrecked your insides, but eating the right thing only gave you tremendous pain, cramping, and poops. That's what you hope your day will be like :/