It is exactly compassion why I have been helping IBSers for the last ten years with accurate information from reliable resources like the UNC and major IBS research centers and the IFFGD and working extremely hard at it all.
I certainly don't have to do it, but I do it because I know how badly people with IBS suffer, especially since mine has majorally impacted my entire life. I sympathize and empathize with all IBSers to the core. Although I may not say it enough.
I am working behind the scenes for more IBS research, more accurate IBS information, more legitimizing IBS as a "real disorder" and way more then most will ever know. That is not for a pity party for me either. To me it is and was the right thing for me to do.
I feel somewhat its more important to get to the facts and try to physically help people, as well as show support and compassion. Don't misunderstand that supplying reliable expert IBS information as a lack of compassion to IBSers.
I have spent a good deal of my life and a lot of my own money helping all IBSers that I can and have helped thousands maybe ten of thousands get better or at least understand things a little better.
Gerikat, I certainly can, but this post in general started off with good and bad information and some very bad information and I spoke up about it and tried to show why it was wrong. Some people didn't like that responce to their post. If there are things wrong with my information anyone can point it out to me and they have already pointed out it was long. I get that already. There was a lot that needed to be said and why it needed to be said and took a lot of information and evidence to say it.
It easy to just say things, its a lot harder to back them up with some evidence. That all took a lot of my time. Yet it all seems like I could have been doing something else with my time, after seeing the responces.
Its interesting nobody I saw at least, concured a good doctor patient relationship is very important in IBS. Although I know some here nknow how important it really is in IBS. I just had a super bad doctor problem, which took months to resolve and now I am seeing a new one and it made a world of differnce personally. Like night and day. I will probably get the experinced published, next year.
That doctors are unhelpful, that research is unhelpful, that trying to understand IBS personally is unhelpful, is unhelpful to all IBSers and to the cause.