Coping with IBS
For most people, talking about what goes on behind closed toilet doors is not up for discussion. Flush and forget about it – Just don’t talk about it!
This becomes more difficult when you are one of the 6 million people in the UK who have a problem with your bowel, as 29 year old Tamily Butterton explains, "At the time I was only 21 and I was very shy and embarrassed to talk about it and I thought, it will go, it might just be a bit of an upset."
It wasn’t an upset stomach and it didn’t go. It took Tamily six months to pluck up the courage to get help from her GP. She hasn’t looked back since. Having got her positive diagnosis she then began developing ways of managing her IBS, which in turn helped her to cope with it.
She had support, help and advice from The Gut Trust
For Tamily, one of the best ways for her to cope is by talking about it.
She says, "…everyone has got the same bodily functions and sometimes it just goes wrong, so don’t be embarrassed to talk about it. The more you talk about it the more other people will talk about it and then the stigma and taboo of IBS will hopefully be overcome."
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