I have IBS attack is it due to anxiety?

[fslharoon]

I am suffering from really bad pain in abdominal doctors told me that it is due to IBS and major cause of IBS is anxiety.but these sites: ibs.com are saying that it is due to high fodmap foods. can someone confirm about it?

[Paxiled]

Anxiety sufferers often do get digestive problems, but anxiety sufferers are also anxious all the time, severely and chronically so.  If you're having a digestive disorder and you're not a chronically anxious person then it's not anxiety.  But even if it were anxiety, you still treat digestive disorders the same way if you want them to go away and not just medicate them forever -- you have to change the way you eat and the way you live.  So many things can cause digestive problems -- not chewing food thoroughly, going to bed too soon after eating, going long periods without food each day, eating foods you have become intolerant to or allergic to -- just a host of things can cause problems.  But the fix is to use gentle natural substances that calm down the inflammation and change your eating, exercise habits until you find the solution.  Good luck.