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Thanks Sand. Yeah, the nice thing about being stable is that I have eliminated many of those precautionary things like immodium, just eating SF, etc., which gives me at least some alternatives to add back for now. Sometimes I don't trust myself though and I don't want to start the cycle of becoming dependent on immodium again for example and/or the klonopin that I have. I only take the klonopin maybe twice/month and it is such a small amount (.25mg). But even that much didn't help me the other morning. I could have taken more. I can't believe that I haven't touched immodium in at least 6 months when I used to basically snack on it.

I guess I want to "fight" the urge to get nervous or have a panic attack b/c I have been so successful so far. It really is quite unbelievable that anxiety could have such an impact on IBS when I thought my IBS had been tremendously "reformed." I did eat mainly SF the rest of today....and I have a good outlook for tomorrow morning, but you're right, getting used to the schedule and the novelty of everything is going to take some time. I guess I should cut myself some slack. I always seem to be hard on myself and not want to be "weak" for relying on back-ups when I can't calm myself and the panic. Thanks for your advice. We'll see how tomorrow goes. (The plus side is that perhaps I'll lose the pounds that I put on over the summer...and also, no gas/bloating when I have so many bms!

) Hope you had a nice summer too.

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Originally IBS-D for a million years!
Then IBS-A, Now a transformed slightly C

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