Hey guys! I’m new here and have been sat thinking surely I’m not the only person that’s gone through this and doctors isn’t really helping.
For years I have suffered with anxiety induced IBS, doctors prescribed anxiety meds plus codiene (I have the diarrhoea IBS) as it makes me more regular.
I found out 5 weeks ago I was expecting so my natural instinct was to get myself to doctors to discuss what we can do, I know it’s dangerous just to come off codiene so I immediately started reducing and I’m now down to the minimum I can take however I’ve had to take two weeks off work as I currently have to be within feet of toilets otherwise I simply don’t make it 😳
Doctor firstly doesn’t want to give me anything else until 13 weeks (I am currently 11+2) but she said she doesn’t know what to give me. As you can imagine google searches only bring up part of my issue e.g. codiene when pregnant or IBS when pregnant.
Please tell me someone either has been through something similar (although I’m sorry you have) or knows someone who has and managed to figure something alternative.
I’d like to add Imodium doesn’t work and the anxiety tablets wasn’t doing much anyway.
TIA xx