Katie - I agree completely I have friends with crohns who have the bag and some have issues but mist are happier and live a relatively normal life. Which I do not right now.
GG my GP is totally useless with pain she thinks the person should learn to deal with it rather than medicate. When we are stressed the body releases cortisol which causes all muscles but especially involuntary ones yo tense up and sometimes spasm....this is why lots of high pressure business men have heart attacks for us it plainly goes straight to the sphincter. I have had my cortisol level tested and it is quite high.
Jim even when I had the 10mg of Valium it did nothing for me it's so annoying lol