Having IBS-M with symptoms swinging from one extreme to the other, and everything inbetween, can feel confusing and out of control. So let’s look at what might be causing your mixed symptoms, and how to start fixing your IBS-M.
What’s causing your IBS-M
While this looks “different”, IBS-M works in a similar way to all other IBS symptoms. The mixed bowel habits are set off by specific triggers.
It’s just that in your case, the triggers are going in different directions.
Let me give you some examples of these triggers, and what to do with them:
A typical trigger for diarrhea is wanting to run and get out of a situation. There’s a feeling you want to avoid or get away from.
For constipation, a typical trigger may be wanting to hold everything in, or stay put.
(Triggers can be much more specific than this, but this is just to give you an idea of what you might be experiencing.)
IBS-M signals that you regularly feel one, or the other, or even both in your daily life.
And this will be a regular feeling pattern in your homelife, work or relationships. Which may be easy to spot, or less obvious.
That’s why I created “Reverse your IBS” private coaching, so you get help with the less visible IBS-M triggers.
How can I fix IBS-M?
Step 1: Look for the triggers
You can fix IBS-M by becoming aware of the triggers.
This may sound easy, but as they are related to feelings you feel often, you may not actually notice when this is happening.
These feelings may be recent. Think about what switches, or goes in different directions.
Here are a few ideas of where to look:
- Do you have a different experience of your weekends, and your weekdays?
- Or do you switch routine regularly (when family members are present, or not)?
- Do you switch jobs, or are you in the office for some periods and out of the office/on the road on others?
- Do you have mixed feelings about anything important in your life?
The triggers can also be related to feelings you used to feel often growing up.
Maybe your parents divorced and you had to switch places often and operate in one environment with one parent, and a different environment with the other parent.
Step 2: Release them
Once you become aware of a trigger, the next step is to release them.
I originally learned to do this using NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). And you can do that too.
But I now use a deeper, faster mind-body technique that my clients learn and use directly.
This is not a quick fix for IBS-M, but a proven deeper way of reversing your IBS symptoms – that works.