You may experience these in other parts of thedigestive systemor elsewhere in your body.
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GI Symptoms
The mainIBS symptomsare related to your digestive system.
The wide variety of reported physical problems makes it challenging to find a common, underlying explanation.
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It may be a combination of factorsincluding those yet to be uncoveredthat contribute to the problem of extra-intestinal symptoms.
The debate on this subject is ongoing and includes two main areas of inquiry.
At this point, there is not enough research to make any firm conclusions.
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Focusing on interventions that address the body as a whole might prove helpful.
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you might educate yourself about red-flag digestive symptoms to ease the anxiety that something more serious is being missed.
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