Have you been diagnosed with post-infectious IBS? Maybe you developed IBS symptoms after an infection, like a bout of food poisoning or gastroenteritis?
We can stay stuck going round in circles kicking ourselves for having “eaten something wrong”, and wishing we hadn’t. Have you been diagnosed with post-infectious IBS? Maybe you developed IBS symptoms after an infection, like a bout of food poisoning or gastroenteritis?
We can stay stuck going round in circles kicking ourselves for having “eaten something wrong”, and wishing we hadn’t. Stuck wishing things were different.
But what if there was more to the story than that – and there is light at the end of the tunnel?
Post-infectious IBS
I was originally diagnosed with post-infectious IBS. I developed IBS symptoms after an infection – gastroenteritis. And although my symptoms changed radically over time, they showed no signs of letting up. In fact, I had them daily.
Nothing I was prescribed helped me a great deal, as I couldn’t digest it.
After 25 years with IBS, I decided to leave the traditional medical route, and start looking for a real solution. I didn’t like the person I had become and the IBS prison I felt I was in.
I researched OCD, and got the inkling that my body was doing something vaguely similar. Even though I wasn’t yet entirely sure why.
And I came to realise that there was more to what I had been told about post-infectious IBS.
Challenging post-infectious IBS
I had been told that it was the bout of gastroenteritis that had not healed properly, and had caused my IBS symptoms.
However, I came to understand that my symptoms were essentially being caused by triggers. Because the gastroenteritis was long gone, and my body had had time to rebalance. And yet the symptoms were coming fast and furiously.
I have talked to other IBS sufferers who are adamant that their IBS was caused by food poisoning. Yet it turns out that everyone else that had the food poisoning rapidly recovered. While they have been suffering for years with IBS.
Why would that be?
A hypothesis that led me to being IBS-free
Well what if the food poisoning (or gastroenteritis) was the straw that broke the camel’s back?
What if developing IBS after the infection actually revealed a compromised immune system? As well as a system of trigger loops operating behind the scenes, causing imbalance in the immune system?
I set out to uncover what those triggers might be, and how to release them so that the body could finally rebalance as it is designed to.
I came to understand that these triggers are often emotional ones.
From there I learned how to reverse triggers, and the rest is history: My IBS symptoms stopped being triggered – and stopped existing.
So if you are stuck with post-infectious IBS, think again
I’m here to tell you that you have done nothing “wrong”. That it wasn’t your fault that you developed it.
However, I’m also here to tell you that it is your responsibility to look into your triggers.
This is the fastest, most effective way I have found to reversing IBS. And my coaching clients who have reversed their IBS are proof of this approach.
What if it could work for you too?