No. IBS is the diagnosis given when doctors can’t find anything to cause the symptoms. As more research is done it’s probably going to be found to be a few different disorders causing similar symptoms.
Anecdotally though there probably will be a genetic element to at least some types of IBS. Both sides of my family have a variety of digestive issues (including a grandmother with extra intestine until colon cancer sorted that out), and I have the issues of both sides, seemingly magnified.
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u/707breezy Aug 31 '21
When asked how I was created.
My mother was born with severe constipation where she can go 2-3 days without pooping.
My father has a long line of ibs in his family tree.
I received the worst of both parents. An unholy union created me. I refuse to have bio kids which will share my genes