IBS and Anxiety making school tough

Nrdsb4
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:37:43 +0000

I’m not sure if I had IBS in my twenties and thirties or irritable bowel but I do know that I suffered many of the same symptoms as the OP.



Okay, IBS *is *irritable bowel. I’m not sure what you are saying.

I get what you are saying about not discouraging the OP re: career goals, but I think it’s also important to be honest. Nursing in a traditional environment is not very compatible with IBS if symptoms cannot be controlled. Doctor’s offices no longer really hire nurses; they are hiring medical assistants instead. There are certainly areas of nursing which are not the traditional hospital staff nurse. Often, however, these positions require experience in, you guessed it, the traditional hospital nursing environment. So it’s really important for the OP to get counseling for the anxiety issues and possibly experiment with various medicine regimes before committing to going the nursing route.