Do any students deal with a nervous stomach or IBS?

[time2fly]

if so...how do you handle it while in classes/clinicals? this terrifies me.

[NamasteNurse, BSN, RN]

I don't even have a colon at all and I'm in nursing school! And this is the least of my physical woes! How about some medications? Anti-diarrheals or something like lomotil? Eat something that sticks with you, like oatmeal in the morning, just a small cup and a banana to bind you and get you through the day. I wouldn't recommend not eating because you need nutrition to get through this. You will be on your feet constantly and if you aren't used to it you may feel ill. It's totally do-able!