Yes if you google IBS and recurrent miscarriage... First two articles are from the Daily Mail, yes I know DM! But one DM article dated March 2012 states that the research examined info from GP records of 100,000 British women who became pregnant between Jan 1990 and Dec 2008, more than 26,000 had suffered from IBS. The researchers found that 6,500, 6%, of the women suffered a miscarriage which is within the normal range.... But when they looked at the women who also had IBS, the proportion who lost their babies rose to 7.5% which is considered significant.
The risk increased further - up to 30%, if the women also had pre-existing problems with depression and anxiety. IBS is linked with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Study was by a team from University Cork in Ireland and the University of Manchester. One of the author's Dr Ali Khashan, from the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College Cork, said: 'we think this will open the eyes of clinicians and GP's to the possibility women who have IBS should be cared for in a certain way if pregnant.'
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2119880/Bowel-condition-increase-risk-miscarriage.html
In my case, I really feel there is a link between my diet, stress, IBS and the miscarriages. My mother suffers with her nerves and bad stomachs, her sister is caeliac. I've suffered from panic attacks on and off since I was 17, I've been through a divorce, now happily married. I've always been an anxious person and given myself a really really hard time. I'm a freelance graphic designer so I can pretty much chose when and who I work for, so now I'm trying to cut out the stressful, deadline driven work and opt for a slower pace of life, outside of crazy London and try and help myself. Scared to try again now!