Comment by crawsome

Have anxiety. Got sick when working for FAANG. Had to take disability as a result.

Your guts are VERY tied to your brain, and your gut biome WILL change if you are stressed enough. When your biome goes off, LOTS of bad things can happen to you.

I was in constant pain and had IBS-C for two years until I learned how to manage by stress. But it came at a terrible cost of having to flounder a bunch of opportunities as a result.

If you have lower-left gut pain, talk to your doctor, but for me it was all stress and anxiety.