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Readers Respond: Does Stress Give You Diarrhea?

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Updated January 20, 2012

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For some people, stress seems to go right to their digestive systems. Are you one of those people? When you are stressed, do you experience diarrhea? How do you cope with this? What sorts of things have you found to be helpful? What things make it worse? Share your tips here and learn from the experience of others.

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Stress

Recently, my 11 year old son decided that he and his cousin were going to make some money shoveling snow. They went out without asking, and we thought they were missing, they were gone for two hours.
—Guest Elmira

Absolutely!

Recently, my mother-in-law came to live with us. Taking care of one more person has put my stomach into knots and I seem to be constantly running to the bathroom.
—mston

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