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Hi there,
Well, first of all I think I should say Congratulations that you are usually stable unless you cheat - that's wonderful! If you have figured out what makes you sick food-wise and what you are okay with, your life will be so much easier!
But then there's stress... And I know how badly stress can influence IBS symptoms personally so I feel for you. I say if your job is the thing you have to do every day and it's starting to make you sick, you need to get a new job. Okay, so looking for a new job or being out of work is really stressful, this is true. So I say put as little pressure on yourself as you can... give yourself all the time you need to search for jobs in your spare time, and just see what's out there. You don't necessarily have to quit your job at all, but looking to see what else is available might take the strain off that job if you feel like you are sort of stuck there. Once you find some, you could start applying and maybe interviewing in any time you can get off from your current job... I think you probably get the idea, make other jobs an option that you can go after if/when you want.
I have to say that when my job was really stressing me out, I was SO SICK.. but then when I quit the job and was unemployed, I was even more sick because I was worried abotu not having any income and having to look for new jobs.. So when i got a new stressful job, I kept on applying and stuff while I was working there and then just quit the crap job and am now at a job that makes me MUCH more comfortable.. especially since my boss has IBS!
I do think stress is something we have to take very seriously as it can totally trigger attacks and make our lives so much worse and if we can figure out little ways of taking some of the stress and pressure off, they will hopefully subside as well.
Good luck!
--Steph

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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
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