Bowels

[dottylou]

Starting to find my ibs is now affecting me daily having to dash to toilet take loperamide but that seems to have even stopped working. Get sweats headache feel sick. I work as a nurse and its affecting my days at work. Days I wish for a normal bowel

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Hi dottylou,

Have you tried the low FODMAP diet - it works for me and many other people on this site?

Glad you mentioned sweating as that's one of my symptoms too. As I've never seen/heard anyone else mention it, I thought it was just me!

Pagan

[bettypie in reply to Hidden]

Oh wow I sweat too!!

[dottylou]

I will have a look into it thank you :).

[rtm99]

Hi dottylou,

I get the same symptoms too.

The Fodmap diet can really help. I found I was getting sweats and nausea mostly because I getting anxious about thinking where the nearest toilet is, will people notice I keep going, can I hold it long enough to get to the toilet! I could almost bring the diahorrea on with this anxiety. The thing that has really helped me with this is meditation- just go on u tube and listen to something that will relax you. I also have a massage every two weeks to help and I listen to Michael mahoney's ibs hypnotherapy CDs.

I still have occasions when I need to turn to the loperamide, but its not too often.

Good luck

[kath_80]

Make sure It's not 'over flow' and you are impacted. I have terrible sweats too and was on 200mg of morphine a day but wasn't killing the pain. Back on tramadol as It's less constipating. I've been going 12 times already today. The only thing that clears me is tube fed klean prep. Back to see GP today as the pain and symptoms are not helping.

[dottylou]

Hi im.sure its notoverflow working as a nurse i know the appearamce of overflow and wen i rush it isnt always liquid it is sometimes formed but an urgency to go a lot.