16/05/2022
📌Are you familiar with the feeling of being too afraid to leave your house because you don't know when you'll need to use the restroom again❓
📌Do you know what it means to plan your social life around the facilities of the locations you visit❓
📌What about the interview you missed because your nerves got the best of you and you were too terrified to have an accident during the meeting❓
These are some of the pains you may be experiencing if you have "irritable bowel syndrome," often known as IBS. IBS is a highly prevalent problem, with approximately 300 million people affected by one of the IBS types globally. Let's have a look at this condition in more detail:
⚡️What are the causes of IBS?
Most of the time, doctors don't know what causes IBS, but IBS is often linked to:
• A nervous system that is extremely sensitive
• A breakdown in nerve communication between the brain and the gut.
• A problem with the way the intestines' muscles contract
• Dysfunction of the immune system
⚡️What are the signs and symptoms of IBS?
IBS is characterised by a number of symptoms that can wreak havoc on your life. The range of these symptoms is extremely broad. The following are the most prevalent symptoms:
• Bloating
• Constant belching or burping
• Stomach cramps
• Nausea
• Diarrhoea
• Constipation
• Acid reflux
• F***s with mucus
IBS can sometimes induce symptoms that are not directly related to the stomach or intestines. These are some of the less common symptoms:
• Muscle pain
• Cold hands
• Palpitation
• Dizziness
• Sleep problems
• Headache
• Fatigue
All of these symptoms are exacerbated by stress. And if you're a woman, you may notice an increase in them during your period.
Because there are so many different varieties of IBS, each person's symptoms are unique. As a result, if you have IBS and have bloating, you may notice that another person with IBS has no bloating but complains about loose stools.
⚡️How is IBS diagnosed?
Doctors utilise a process of elimination to identify IBS because it is still unknown how it manifests. Before diagnosing IBS, your doctor may offer tests such as endoscopy and colonoscopy based on your symptoms. The doctor performs these tests to rule out the possibility of any detectable condition.
Most of the time, these tests are used to find problems in the intestines, like ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis, or polyps, as well as problems in the stomach, like oesophagitis, gastric reflux, or pectic ulcers.
If the results of these tests don't show any sign of a known illness, IBS is often the diagnosis.
This is where things can get really gloomy
There is no treatment for IBS because the medical community does not completely comprehend it. Your doctor may tell you that you will have IBS and its unpleasant symptoms for the rest of your life.
The difficulty is that if you have IBS, you know how tough it is to manage it every day while also trying to live a normal life. In the long run, this condition can become unbearable, leading to depression and increased stress and anxiety. Especially if you're told there's nothing you can do.
❤😃⭐️You DO NOT HAVE to settle for second best.
What if I told you that you could finally live your life without worrying about your IBS symptoms?
You probably wonder how this can be possible since you were told that there are solutions to your problem.
The short answer is that the medical world is looking to have one single answer to solve all the symptoms of IBS and doesn’t apply naturopathic principles to their protocols. But because of the vast spectrum of symptoms, IBS is quite difficult to grasp. On top of that it is further complicated by the fact that there are six different types of IBS. As a result, two persons with the same type of IBS can have completely different symptoms. In this situation, finding a single solution that benefits everyone is quite difficult.
This complexity is eliminated by naturopathy since, unlike the medical model, it provides an individual and personalised naturopathic protocol for each circumstance, allowing you to effectively remove your IBS symptoms, reclaim control of your life, and begin to enjoy it again.
🎯The first thing you can do to start your journey to recovery is to find out which type of IBS you suffer from. I invite you to complete a quiz that I designed specifically for this purpose. Click on the below button and respond to this 1-minute questionnaire and I will send you your personalised mini report on your IBS type:
Find out what type of IBS you suffer from and find out how to get rid of it