Hi,

I have IBS-D and really want to get rid of this urgency in the morning. It’s something to do with the process of waking up, because if I wake up the once and go that’ll be it, if I wake up and go and then go back to sleep, it’ll happen the second time I wake up and so on. Basically within about 1 minute of opening my eyes my bowels suddenly urgently need to go, they will go all crampy, and I’ll have a loose Bowel movement. Then I feel fine for the rest of the day unless I eat breakfast too early or drink caffeine or eat something really rich.

Annoyingly this always happens at the exact same time 5:45am which I know isn’t exactly mega early but I would prefer to sleep until my alarm at 6:30.

I am a very anxious person with health anxiety, so every morning when this happens I get this nagging BC worry, is this the norm with IBS?

Does anyone have any remedies that could help?