Coping With IBS in School
The Sad Story of L.D.
A 16 Year Old Girl
Dear IBS-Life
IBS in school
I am a 16 year old girl and I live in Birmingham. I think I have suffered from IBS since I was bullied in school in the 8th Grade. I didnt know what was wrong with me, but my mum took me to the doctors a few times as I was getting very bad stomach aches and diarrhea. They thought it was nerves, because I did not like school.
It got worse at school and I had to keep going to the toilets with diarrhea, and people made fun of me and followed me into the toilets at breaks. I tried not to go, but I had to, and they said I smelled. My Mum worried because I was always in the toilet at home, and she thought I was bulemic, and told me not to lock the bathroom door. I was embarrassed and tried to find something to stop me having diarrhea, and found imodium. I would take them before school, but I ended up not being able to go and in the end I told Mum. She thought it was just school nerves, because my GCSE's were coming up this year.
IBS in school
The exams were the worse time of my life and one day I had to run out. I had almost had an accident and I could not go back into the exam as I people would smell me. I shut myself in the toilets and cried, then tried to leave the school, but a teacher stopped me. I said I had diarrhea and he understood but when my mum found out she thought it was exam nerves, I took more imodium for the rest of the exams, and when I left school I felt much better, but I was afraid to be away from a toilet and I was frightened because I needed one and thought I had something really wrong with me. I was reading a magazine one day and a woman had written in about having diarrhea and stomach ache, and the doctor who answered her said it might be IBS. I did not know what it meant and my mUm had not heard of it, so I looked online and found your site. I read everything and knew that this was what I had, and asked my mum to read it. She had not seen anything that explained so well, and after she had looked she said that she thought she might have IBS too, and she had always thought that I got my nervous stomach from her, because she had one too sometimes. I saw the doctor and he said I probably did have IBS as there was nothing else wrong with me. My mum and I are both trying some of the treatments that you have written about, and now I have realized that every time my IBS was real bad was when I was worried and that I was better in the school holidays. Thank you very much for your site L.D
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