Hi guys I am new to this group. I joined to help find some answers and see if anyone else has had the same thing happen to them or any similar stories. I am a 28 year old female (in case anyone is curious) The story starts about a month ago. I got food poisoning from a salad I ordered at a...

Hi everyone, I've been lurking on this forum for a long time and finally decided to post because I need emotional support. I'm going to school for environmental health and plan to attend law school after I get my bachelor's. My school is the best one in the country for environmental stuff and...

This may sound silly, but is it possible to have something like PTSD after a major illness? I had a recurrent C. difficile infection for about a year, and it was an absolute nightmare. During the worst of it i didn't want to be alive anymore. Between the lack of effective medical care and...

Hello, I am a 17 year old male who has been (partially) diagnosed with IBS - PI. I say partially because I haven't had an endoscopy or colonoscopy, however, I am pretty sure I do not have Chron's, UC, or Colorectal cancer (my symptoms appear in bouts, and are not progressive, like it seems they...

You maybe scared and worried if your reading this, I know I was! The good news is most ppl with ibs-d-pi will be improved in 8 weeks, studies say they show improvement after 8 weeks after being treated with placebo. i am back to normal. i would describe it as the body healing itself, or the...

Hello I am almost certainly diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome by my doctor. I developed it after having a bad stomach bug 8 months ago and never really recovered except for a few months at a time. I am currently having an IBS "attack" and was wondering how long do they usually last for...

Hi all, I am new to this site and to this syndrome and it is the absloute worst! I've missed out on so many things like concerts and my senior week trip to Disney I guess i should let you know how to this all started. March 26 i went to saladworks and got a salad and ate it that night. We went...

First of all, if you don't already know about this, a diagnostic blood test to confirm or rule out IBS-PI in patients has been found. It's the work of Dr. Mark Pimentel. Here is more about that...

I am 22 years old female and never had any issues with my bowel movements or anything else basically. I used to have occasional morning diarrhea maybe twice a month but then it stops and it's as if nothing happened. On 31st March I went to eat out (a pizza which had some sausages and goat's...

Most people say that 65% of post-infectious IBS patients recover within 2-5 years. We also know that the rate of developping IBS after an infection varies between 3-30% depending on the bacteria and the study. TL;DR: Suppose bacteria x infects a population and has associated rate of 10%. This...

Hey guys. I'm new here so I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong category. With that said, a quick background: My name is Reid and I am 18 years old. In 2011 I got sick; 9 ER visits and 3 hospitalizations later I was diagnosed with C-difficile Colitis (c-diff). At that point I had gone...

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and I wanted to share my story. On November 2, I came down with a fever. I thought it was just the flu, so I just took it easy that night. My fever broke the next day. The one other symptom I started having was horrible stomach pains. I thought those were probably...

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