Hey! I've experiencing IBS with multiple bowles/day for about 2 years and I am tired and scarred of taking loperamide. I take 2 to 4 pills/ week, more when I'm out of town. I know that everything is in my head,but I can't control it, when I am nervous about something,my heart starts to beat faster and it feels like it is connected to my intestines ! It is very frustrated, and everytime when I am far from a bathroom I feel like I am going to have a panic attack! Sometimes I believe that taking those immodium are more like a placebo effect for me,because I am always calm when I'm on them,and I know that my intestine is fine => no panic attack. Now school will start, I'll have to be there from 8 AM to 14 PM ,which are exactly the hours when my intestinal movement's are faster! I could get up at 6 AM and force myself to eat and drink some tea in order to go to the bathroom...but I cannot guarantee that this will be the only time on that day that I will need to use a bathroom !
I didn't used to be like this, my intestines used to be perfect, like they know when they should react and when they shouldn't.. I never used to have those silly fears! Until the 2nd year of college , there were a couple of months when I felt really bad, I used to vomite whatever I ate, I always had stomach aches..I was diagnosed with gastritis, but I have treated it with domperidone and sucralfate. My gastritis disappeared but not my fears. I was always affraid that I was going to vomite and I was afraid to eat for a while...then the fear disappeared and the multiple bowels started to appear !
I am so sick and tired of this! It seems like I can never enjoy anything! Please help me!