Is IBS keeping you up at night? Is IBS pain making you toss and turn at night?
Are you rushing out to the bathroom in the early hours? Or are you on Google searching for a solution for IBS flares. One that might actually work this time…
Either way IBS is robbing you of your precious sleep – as well as your peace of mind.
What can you do about it? How can you get your body to behave, and let you get some sleep?
This is what I did to turn my IBS symptoms around – and actually worked.
With IBS at night
I used to suffer with IBS pain at night, and wake up in the morning feeling pretty rough.
Sometimes I would distinctly remember tossing and turning. And others I would just wake up with the back of my hair in a tangled wad.
“You need to use a silk pillow cover!” piped in my hairdresser. Little did she know what I went through with IBS pain at night.
When my IBS became chronic, it didn’t seem to matter much what I had to eat in the evening. Shortly afterwards the churning would begin along with the pain and the gas.
I would go to bed, glad that I had got through another day. And I’d sleep for a short while before my growling stomach and intestines would kick in – and I would do my best to try to “sleep”.
This went on for years. Before I stumbled on a way out of IBS.
Getting a good night’s sleep
Fast forward 25 years, these days I sleep SO much better. Simply because I no longer have IBS pain or flares at night.
So when I wake up I’ve actually slept. And I actually have some energy for my day ahead.
(I even look forward to my day!)
I have been experiencing lasting relief for 8 years now.
What’s the secret? Knowing where to look.
The secret to lasting IBS relief
So what can you do to stop having IBS flares at night? And get some real, restful sleep?
The secret to getting REAL and lasting relief is NOT tiptoeing around food for the rest of your life.
In my coaching practice it usually takes long-term IBS sufferers a while to have them give up worrying about what they eat.
Because even if they know deep down it’s not about the food, they’ve been brainwashed into thinking that IBS is somehow their fault, and IBS symptoms are there because they don’t “eat right” and “have to be careful”.
And I get it. I really do. I used to have suffer with food intolerance.
The secret to lasting IBS relief is to take your focus off the food – and start noticing what your emotional triggers are instead.
Those emotional tripwires that set off various different IBS symptoms. And IBS pain at night.
Maybe there is specific feeling you associate with nighttime, or used to when you were growing up.
Now you know the secret, what can you start noticing about your IBS triggers this week?