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I put my increased bowel movements down to my active lifestyle and healthy diet. Doctors told me it was IBS... then I developed excruciating backache

Daily Mail Health · 2 September 2026 at 13:01

I put my increased bowel movements down to my active lifestyle and healthy diet. Doctors told me it was IBS... then I developed excruciating backache

After almost two years of worsening stomach pain, Sam Launder was told he had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Then aged 27, he thought it was something he simply had to learn to live with.

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I put my increased bowel movements down to my active lifestyle and healthy diet. Doctors told me it was IBS... then I developed excruciating backache

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