Here is my unofficial, still-being-edited, 10 ways to tell you have adhesions or ARD (including IBS):
10) Before, your floors looked like you could eat off of them. Now it looks as though everyone did. (who feels like cleaning anymore, anyway) 9) Your medicine cabinet looks like a miniature Walgreen's. 8) There is a barf-bag next to the K-Y in the night-table. 7) You think prunes and Wheat Germ go with whatever else is on the dinner menu. 6) You know where all the bathrooms are within a ten mile radius of your house. 5) You've decorated your home around the colors in your heating pads, which double as throw-pillows when not in use. 4) You don't think it's odd to have a tv, magazine rack and telephone in the bathroom. (Doesn't everybody?) 3) You are on a first-name basis with the staff of the ER room and your local doctor's office. 2) Pin-up of the doctor who "cured" you on the bedroom wall.
and the #1 way to tell you have adhesions/ARD/IBS... the wonderful loving support of all the marvelous people on this list who understand and are always there for you. Thank you everybody!!!!
Love,
Lynda M. in AZ