Earlier Part of Morning in the Loo

[Katerina1]

Thanks for all your replies. Seems many of you have similar experience of being in and out of the loo for first part of the morning. I have an early morning meeting coming up next week. Plan to eat very little the night before, get up very early, then take an Imodium before I go out. Last year I gave up a regular activity that started at 9am. Reluctant but just too tricky for me. I suppose feeling more confident about doing things later in the day has to be a positive thing.

[Kweh123]

I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one who experiences this! I'll have to go to the loo several times before work and I have so much anxiety about being late. I think the anxiety makes it worse. I take an Imodium before bed sometimes for important days as I realised lack of sleep the night before will give me an IBS attack but the Imodium seems to help.

I hope you work out what is best for you and that life gets easier x

[EJ59]

This is what I do if I need to be out early very little if nothing at all to eat the night before and then only water in the morning .... tough but it does work xx

[xjrs]

You don't have to live like this. I used to have severe IBS-D which used to last for 6 month stretches when I was under stress. I'd be sitting in work wondering when I'd need to rush to the loo. I saw a NHS gastroenterlogist who referred me to a NHS dietician who took me through the fodmap diet. It took a little while and there were few fodmaps that I could tolerate, but what I did find is that my IBS-D completely disappeared. This was even when I was anxious or going through a very stressful time. Have you or anyone who is suffering like this been referred to a dietician and been through the fodmap diet?

[Marygulliford]

I wish you luck, I'm retired now but when working it was a case, like you, of getting up early to give me plenty of time for several loo visits! I also took 2 imodium/loperamide an hour before I left home. I know we're supposed to eat plenty of veg but I can't tolerate it. I seem to be able to eat salad with no problems. It's a case of trial and error. I've also stopped taking vitamins and am much better.