IBS disproportionately affects women – and it’s time we talked about it ✒️ graychlo_
Chloe Gray: ‘Two-thirds of people diagnosed with the condition are women, and the lack of care and understanding around the condition is undeniably a feminist issue’ Most of my final year of university was spent crying in the library toilets. Not because of the workload, but because I spent it in a never-ending. Most days, my stomach would be cramping on top of being so distended I looked pregnant.
I had been diagnosed with a ‘funny tummy’ when I was just five, but I didn’t get a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome until well into my teenage years . Diagnosing IBS is hard, as it is a classification of multiple symptoms that go on for six or more months. “Often your own symptoms may not be linear and it can be hard to explain and monitor them to receive a diagnosis,” says dietitian and functional gut expertPlus, talking about IBS is embarrassing.
My diagnosis didn’t change much. There is no cure for IBS but I was sent away by GPs when searching for management tools, being told there was nothing wrong or that the symptoms would sort themselves out. A nutritionist put me on the famousdiet, in which you exclude fermentable foods that can trigger IBS before slowly reintroducing them to find your tolerable limits.
“Women have a different gastrointestinal tract to men,” explains Rabess. “Their colon is 10 centimetres longer than a man’s, which can lead to slower emptying.
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