Trying to be rational on this ibs? or what

[Lockey1995]

So, I haven't posted on here in a while done 4 cbt sessions I'm starting i think maybe feel a little better still get severe anxiety from time to time though :( and now is one of them anyway still a bit down and depressed need to sort my sleep out! also I think I need to drink way more I've only had a 2 glasses of pop today and a coffee.

Anyway after work i went fine bit constipated but after I felt and urge and passed a decent size of mucus on it's own :( then been twice since well once the second time I think i just went to see if i could get it out didn't strain second time a tiny bit of mucus quite a bit wiping and gas. Can constipation cause this? or being dehydrated Also when i did strain a bit I've stopped it does feel like there could be something solid there.

Also only just got over a bad cold or virus thing I've had for 2 weeks, I've got two sides at the minute logical: It's just constipation I've had the mucus on it's own before and It'll go.

Emotional side: Something bad or my bowels going to close off or become blocked or something :(

[Elen]

Great that you are feeling the benefit of the CBT.

The simple answer is lack of fluid = constipation.

Drink more water and see how it goes

[Lockey1995]

So it's slightly improved but i've scared my self :( What if all these years I've had this ibs it could be a parasite or something causing the mucus Makes me feel really uneasy thinking about it :( and quite freaked out how would you know I've seen like bits of tiny white every now and then but not like nearly everytime or everytime I do go. Would you see it clear as daylight or am i being paranoid again?

[Elen]

r am i being paranoid again?

yep

practice your cbt techniques and keep drinking water

[Phuzella]

Stop looking at it. The more you whittle about it the worse it'll be .

[Lockey1995]

Yeah i don't so much now it's just the cramps etc I get from time to time I'm scared it could be it just unsettles me thinking there's something living in there :(

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idk minds gone crazy what happens if there is something that's grown in there for years it's always been a fear

[Phuzella]

The brain and the gut are so connected so the more anxious you are, the more your bowels play up. I've never done CBT but I hear it's very good so keep it up

[Kathryn313]

Have you been given some CBT worksheets to record unhelpful thoughts on? Do the exercises and stick with it.

I got much better when I started each day with a small bowl if all bran and drunk 1.5lts of water. A week off caffeine seemed to coincide with feeling better too.

[Linda32]

Hi, I've just posted on the other thread. I've had IBS for years, flares up sometimes and then goes away for years.

When I feel yuk and see the mucus, I'm quite relieved as then I know its just IBS not something far worse!

[Capercrohnj]

Music is typical of ibs. I have a serious case of fistulizing crohn's disease and it is nothing like you described