Flying with IBS

[OddQuestion]

First thing, sorry if this is in the wrong section. I am not sure where a rather odd question like this goes!

I am due to fly on Friday, my first flight in many years. The reason being I have IBS and I get very little warning before needing the toilet. Im comfortable once the plane is in the air etc, but the stress/pressure of not being able to have access to a toilet during the belts on phase (take off/landing) is not helpful!

If I am sat in the back row aisle seat and suffer an attack during take off and landing, I would need to use the toilet within 2 minutes. It's unlikely but possible and unfortunately unavoidable. How would that scenario play out? I don't want to end up arrested for getting out of my seat! Would the cabin crew let me use the toilet (at my own risk of course)

[DIBO]

not being able to have access to a toilet during the belts on phaseso it's more in your head than in your bowel, isn't it.... but that's not helpful advice, so I would suggest:
Don't focus on the seatbelts-on phase; there might be other moments whit no toilet available. If it's a 'by bus' boarding, and you've to wait 15min. somewhere in the middle of the airfield, getting out and running around on the airfield looking for a loo, will get you arrested...
Just in case you've not yet used them before:
- look closely at your 'diet' at least a day of 2 before
- take an Otilonium Bromide based medicine (like Spasmomen) from at least the night before the flight
- have a Loperamide based (instant' medicine (Imodium Instants) on hand during the 'critical' phases
- relax!!! If you're already now so focused on 'seatbelts on' horror scenarios, the simple fact of the 'seatbelt on sign' lighting up unexpectedly (in-flight turbulence), will be enough to trigger the IBS...
But first & foremost, when in doubt, consult your GP; read the patient info leaflet, etc.

[The Flying Stool]

You've given 'spotters corner' a whole new meaning! :yuk::p

[DIBO]

Well from a medical viewpoint, it gave your nickname a whole new meaning....:ooh:

[JEM60]

My wife is an IBS sufferer, and on a Kenya Airways flight, she was in the loo for the landing!. Lovely flight attendant who used common sense and bent the rules to suit the situation.

[longer ron]

when in doubt, consult your GP

Not always a very useful bit of advice LOL
I went to my GP a couple of years ago because I had almost constant indigestion and other 'side effects' - his answer ''take gaviscon''.
I then repeated to him that I never get indigestion - ''take gaviscon'' he says !

So I goes away and sits and thinks about it (sometimes I sits and thinks - sometimes I just sits :))
I came to the conclusion that it was food intolerance,so I cut out gluten which had an almost immediate effect !
When I was younger I could eat anything but as I have aged then I have obviously become sensitive to some foods (not just gluten but it can be nasty stuff :hmm: ) - I have even had to cut back on Co-op choccy peanuts :eek: