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Is Irritable bowel syndrome permanent?

i been feeling some strange lower abdominal dull pain, sometimes diarrhea, bloating, constipation..etc lately. i went to the doctor today and he said i might have IBS, I came home and googled it, apparently its a long term condition, does that mean that it sticks with a person forever or it just takes a while for it to be gone?

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IBS may not be permanent. You need to address what causes IBS which is stress and extreme anxiety. This is the explanation i gave another girl about why Donnatal could help (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
IBS is like saying you have a bug, it's a very vague disease with no clearly defined cause. Anyway, i [read up on Donnatal which was prescribed to another IBS patient and it] seems to be an anticholinergic drug which blocks neuronal signaling to your GI to stop or dampen motility. Sure, stress is usually a strong sympathetic followed by a strong parasympathetic response (uses Ach as main neurotransmitter that is antagonized by anticholinergics), which is what you see in people who throw up or poop under extreme anxiety attacks. goodluck

Okay, i'm gonna go the extra limb to explain sympathetic and parasympathetics. These two functional systems of our nervous system is often referred to as "fight or flight". Sympathetic response during stress increases blood pressure breathing rate so you can transienty increase your metabolic rate to address whatever is causing you stress like embarrassment for example. This, however, has an opposite effect on the GI system because sympathetics release two different neurotransmitters that affect the cardiovascular (receives norepinephrine neurotransmitters) and GI (receives noradrenaline, adrenaline neurotransmitters) systems differently. Where as in the heart norepinephrine has a strong stimulatory effect by binding beta 1 adrenergic receptors to increase smooth muscle and heart muscle contraction, adrenaline and noradreline has a strong relaxation effects on the GI smooth muscles by binding beta 2 adrenergic receptors. You dont poop and pee during extreme stress, this comes afterwards. After the transient sympathetic response is over, ie, relaxation of the GI system, the parasympathetics kick to try to equilibriate the system and recover from that rapid jolt. the parasympathetics release acetylcholine which binds g-protein coupled receptors that increases calcium releases in the GI smooth muscles causing contraction and motility. donnatal (anticholinergic) is an anticholinergic which may bind to the same g-protein coupled receptors that acetylcholine binds so in order to outcompete acetylcholine and abolish its effects and results in loss of GI SM contraction and motility. It also helps that donnatal also has phenobarbital which is a sedative to try and dampen the effect of over stimulation of your brain which activates the sympathetic and parasympathetic response. These are hallmarks of IBS and nothing else. Crohn's will not be cured by an anticholinergic or a sedative because it's an autoimmune disease. You can also cross out Celiac and Ischemic Bowel diseases because one is allergic and the other is mechanic-mediated diseases and you would be on different type of therapies and surgeries to fix those. Cancers theoretically could be but it is very very unlikely because cancers with endocrine effects will release hormones not catecholamines and i dont see hormonal effects here (long term effects) and see only catecholamine effects (short, quick effects).

you have it forever. But you start to learn what foods make you sick and what doesn't. Also what quantities are ok for you. My mom has had it for years and so do I and we know what to stay away from.

apparently it is easily controlled after all the habits have been formed. but yes, it does stick for a long time. but after you adjust your diet... you will hardly notice!

Permanent, yes - you can't cure it, you can only manage it by avoiding any food and drink that brings it on.

you will always have it although there is treatment for it

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