If there’s one thing people with irritable bowel syndrome don’t want to hear, it’s that their condition is ‘all in the mind’. Yet that’s what many doctors believe.
It has caused a great deal of debate in the medical community, but while some GPs imply sufferers are a bunch of malingerers or hypochondriacs, it is a very real and very miserable condition.
Symptoms – tending to first appear when patients are in their early 20s to 30s – include bloating, cramps, heartburn and endless embarrassing or uncomfortable situations.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2312148/Your-tummy-trouble-mind-IBS-sufferers-benefit-psychotherapy-says-leading-digestive-expert.html#ixzz2R63feufm
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It has caused a great deal of debate in the medical community, but while some GPs imply sufferers are a bunch of malingerers or hypochondriacs, it is a very real and very miserable condition.
Symptoms – tending to first appear when patients are in their early 20s to 30s – include bloating, cramps, heartburn and endless embarrassing or uncomfortable situations.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2312148/Your-tummy-trouble-mind-IBS-sufferers-benefit-psychotherapy-says-leading-digestive-expert.html#ixzz2R63feufm
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