Any other IBS sufferers?

First, when you're constipated for a long time, your intestine actually stretches to accomodate the stool. It's a vicious cycle. The more constipated you are, the more constipated you get. What you have to do is be regular or semi-regular for a long time, like weeks or better yet, months. Talk to a GI specialist and get on a laxative regimine so that you pass soft/normal stools regularly. Yeah, you might have a bit of D here and there, but you need to let your intestines get back to their normal shape, and condition your rectal nerves and muscles to signal you when you need to go. After a long time of C, there's always some stool in your rectum, so the nerves think it's "normal" and don't even signal you to go anymore.

So true. I tried to tell a bunch of people on here months ago about their intestines can STRETCH 2-5 times their normal size. People wonder why some people's stomachs are so big, yet they are not fat. (Reminds me of the ole beer belly gut).

We have over 16 feet of small intestines inside of us. When it stretches and has to accomodate stools from previous meals, it covers the insides of the small intestines and can prevent the villi from absoring the nutrients out of the food as it passes through the digestive system.

I had people on here dis-agreeing with me that when people are constipated and they don't go every day, that once they go, all the backed up stools exit in one BM. Ha, don't we wish.

Colonoscopy only looks at the last 6 feet of our BIG intestine (our colon). What about the 16 feets of small intestines that are digesting the food. This area is an area that people get cramps because their intestine can stretch in one spot, but it gets squeezed smaller in other spots not allowing spools to pass through.

AwMyLoLo - I've read some of your posts - I hope you get some answers soon.

I can't remember what else I suggested to him but I assume the colonoscopy was the final straw that would have shown anything physically wrong... They officially diagnose IBS when they have ruled out everything else.

That doesn't surprise me at all. They can't find anything wrong, let's officially call it IBS.

I've taken herbal products that help eliminate waste from the digestive system. THEY DO WORK. I went from going once every 1-2 days to 3 times a day and empting my colon. Great feeling when you know you've emptied, compared to that feeling that.. "I know there's more there but not coming out, or even worse, you sit there and constipated and nothing comes out but a pebble. Been there, done that.

I hate to see people suffer when there's options out there. Negativity always seems to come from people who don't have any bowel problems when I've mentioned this previously.

I've been taking these products for years. I've had a friend who was an IBS sufferer, and she became more regular after taking the herbs.

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I have IBS with constipation too..very severe - I use Miralax once daily and it is a miracle .. just mix one capful in with your coffee, tea, water - whatever. It is completely tasteless and has no residue. I also use a script - Amitiza .. I used to need it 2x a day but because the Miralax works so well, I only take it once a day - but even if I miss a dose, it's okay because the Miralax is so effective. It's available in the same section of the pharmacy as Pepto etc.. well worth it...