Is there hope for a complete recovery from IBS?

@bomb that sounds traumatic!! I really hope we all can figure out a way to cure this ❤️

What I’m getting at is it might be entirely possible for IBS to go away by treating both things at once. Your body and your mind. One always affects the other whether we notice it or not. I too wish mine would go away and do not want to live the rest of my life like this.

Well IBS is triggered by stress (other things too of course) and there’s theories that it can be caused by trauma and/or stress as well because the mind and the gut are so intimately connected. My IBS started after a year of daily panic attacks due to a horribly abusive ex. Are you dealing with any depression or anxiety?

I have heard of people on Reddit that recovered. Sometimes their IBS started after bad bad bad food poisoning and after suffering for maybe a year they got better. Some people get on antibiotics and just develop and struggle with IBS for a period of time as well but get better. As for people that just develop it well I have also heard of it getting better though I’m not sure about completely. I was miserable about a year ago. For a whole year after I got my gallbladder removed I was close to pooping myself in public constantly I never want to leave the house. It got to a point I hardly ate anything as my body punished me so much for eating I stopped, yet the moment I literally ate anything like an egg or banana or something I would get a painful and messy IBS attack. Bentyl didn’t seem to help me. In desperation I did the low FODMAP diet. It’s really restricting, but I was already hardly eating anything anyway I was afraid of food (lost 50 pounds in like 2 months in fact it was that bad) so I tried it. Gas, bloating, diarrhea eased up a TON and things did get better. I never did the part of the diet where you slowly reintegrate possibly triggering foods back into your diet to see if you can eat it because I’m too scared and like living symptom free. I eat really plain and boring now 90% of the time but it’s just not worth the pain and discomfort anymore for me. I’d say try it if you haven’t already and even if it doesn’t go away it would be great to get better at least right?