What are the symptoms of IBS with mixed pattern?
Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) with mixed pattern means that they have loose watery stools that are characteristic of a diarrhoea pattern, and also hard lumpy stools are a characteristic of a constipation pattern. What you can commonly see in patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) with mixed pattern is that they’ll even, on the same day, have a change from hard stools to loose stools. So, very characteristically they’ll say when they first get up and have a bowel movement, it’s hard and may be difficult to pass and when they have a bowel movement later in the day it will become progressively more loose and watery. They don’t necessarily have it. Other patients characteristically will have the pattern where they will be constipated for four or five days, or even a week, and then they’ll have a lot of pain and dramatic loose stools. Almost like the bowel is trying to empty itself. They’re a very difficult group to treat. It’s almost like they’re on a high wire, a tight
