hi,

Hopefully someone can reassure me. For the past few weeks since my anxiety has been really intense i've had problems with my ibs. Loose stools, diahorea, normal stools, wind, gurgling stomach. I've been on 60mg citalopram for the last month. Went up from 40mg.

The loose stools have calmed down over the last couple of weeks and are much more formed but thinner than they should be. Not pencil thin or flat maybe the width of 2/3 pencils. Usually they are like this the second tim i go in the morning. There iss usually about 4 pieces of stool like this. Today i noticed that a couple of them were a curved shape, this is really worrying me.

I've not been eating too well lately as i just can't when i'm so anxious. I started my cbt 3 weeks ago and part of my treatment is to avoid going to my gp for reassurance. I've seen about 6 gps over the last few weeks who all say its my ibs.

Can anyone relate to this? Trying to keep myself together for the sake of my kids.