I gotta ask you guys something whilst at the same time vent a little. But if you read no further, I just wanna know what you guys would perfer if you had the choice: THE BID D orTHE BIG C??? I'll go first by saying that I would perfer the big D for a number of reasons. Most of it being that if my sphincter explodes then at least I know that I am done with it. I know that all the badness has been taken away to lala land. Plus I can't believe how good I feel afterward. My dad used to always say that" The only way a man can completely satisfy himself is to have a big s#!t. I am now a full beleiver in that. The other thing is that when I get constipated, I get insanely sick. I feel like death is knocking at my door and I just want to kill myself. When the explosive sphincter hits it is generally not an all day event for me but constipation lasts forever (or so it seems after a few days). So I want to raise my glass and toast my bowel movement that I had today after a long bout with the big C. I am back. I am here to stay. Come on guys lets go eat a Big Mac and wash it down with a milkshake and sit back and wait for we have a built in natural laxitive growing inside us. WE HAVE DIARREHA!!! OUR COLONS ARE CLEAN!!! WE HAVE NOTHING INSIDE US TO SLOW US DOWN ANYMORE!!! AND WE ARE NEVER FULL OF IT!!! WOOHOOO!!! Man I feel like a million bucks right now.

Hi copter - gotta disagree with you. Although the big C can be real pain - literally - I'd take it any day over urgent explosive diarrhea, that caused me to mess my pants. For the past 5 years, my IBS-D continued to worsen until I thought I'd have to wear Depends - at 35 years old at the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm now 41 and wiser (ha, ha).

Fortunately, I found out about Colestid and now I have normal stools. But after years of embarrassment, shame, and humiliation, constipation would have been a welcome relief for me.

Guess it goes to show that we're never happy with our life situation, and always wish for what others have.

Good luck to you and maintaining normalcy,
Katie G

Hi guys
I think this is a grass is greener type of a question... i generally have IBS-C and I am ALWAYS thankful whenever diahrea kicks in because it is such a pleasant change.

That said I'm sure if it was all the time I wouldn't enjoy it as much, I had a bout of it for two weeks ago and had to forgo sex, visits, any event outside of the house (groceries, walks, friends, shopping, walking dogs, etc) because I needed to be near the bathroom immediately, so I think a few months of that would dull the memory of the constant bloating, cramps, lethargy, and pain that accompany constipation and start wishing for the old problem.

Instead of wishing for constipation or diahrea lets wish for NORMAL BOWEL FUNCTION.

Normal people seem to enjoy it and don't seem to have the laundry list of aches pains and isses that IBSERS do, so I vote for that!
sammy

I vote for Normalcy too.
Neither condition is preferable to me.
I've just learned how to live with my dysfuntion and that makes it somewhat tolerable.
It's all in personal experience.