W1247 IBS Patients Have Normal and Abnormal Bowel Habits: Relevance for Subtyping?

Discrepancy between recalled and recorded bowel habits in irritable bowel syndrome

“…Consistent with the results of previous studies of IBS patients, 5, 6, 23 only 54% of our patients recalled and recorded concordant bowel habit subtypes. The change between the recalled and the recorded evaluations was mainly from IBS‐U to IBS‐D or IBS‐C and vice versa , and rarely involved extreme alterations (directly from IBS‐D to IBS‐C or vice versa ).…”