Posted by Ame Sans Vie on July 8, 2003, at 20:08:01
In reply to Re: Laudanum--the greatest thing I've tried yet!!!, posted by samplemethod on July 8, 2003, at 13:55:39
> HOw do u know if you have irritable bowel syndrome... can ya fake it?
>
> hehe
lol, actually, come to think of it, it would be a pretty easy disorder to fake... the diagnosis of it is based pretty much only on excluding all other possibilities, since it's not known what causes IBS. Usually they're run a battery of tests (blood work, sigmoidoscopy, stool sample, and colon biopsy being the most common) and if nothing comes up that would indicate an inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's, etc etc, then IBS is generally the diagnosis they give you.
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