Re: Getting very distressed - HelpForIBS.com Message Boards

JessicaAnne, barbie,Betharoo,jblake,sand,Linz,Maria!Maria!, Augie, & Franny, and anyone else I may have missed, sorry, I am so very happy that you all took the time to help out a fellow IBSer. It is so very frustrating to live with this idiotic, frustrating disease and have people look at you like your an idiot when you try to explain it..........Let alone everybody that thinks I'm on a "diet" and I get made fun of because I'm thin, I have have a hard time trying to tell them it's a diet, but not a weight loss one.......frustration setting in......anyway, I have read all your posts and have got a lot of great ideas and suggestions and I was D free last night and with my adjusted eating habits today and wishes and prayers, I will be D free tonight also!!! I am thinking about the Acacia, however, the only concern I had was when I was taking fibercon, I noticed that Acacia was one of the ingredients and it makes me scared, fibercon did me in really bad!!! Citrucel wise I'm getting 6mg of fiber right now, along with my daily food, I've been trying to get 10-12 gm a day for now and will increase it. I do want to try the fennel tea as suggested, I miss my coffee, so I have become so hooked on my morning and evening peppermint tea, I miss it and I think it was a mind thing. It is weird however, the peppermint didn't bother my GERD, so I thought it would soothe the colon spasm when it happened..........oh well, live and learn, I have started a food diary, and have lots of new things to try, I was to be IBS free......at least for more than 1 month, which is the longest I have ever went. I don't chew gum, gave it up after I read Heather's book and I always check for artifical sweetners, especially sorbitol, big D problem for me. I did buy the two bottle pack of heather's peppermint caps, for the colon spasm, am I not supposed to be taking those either. I do have a healthy supply of Gas X, Phayzyme, etc. and have yet to get the imodium, getting that tomorrow. I'm going to a health food store tomorrow and will get the french bread, I've not had sourdough for over 24 hours now, seeing if that is a culpret. Can you find Acacia and fennel tea in health food stores? Thanks again to all of you, with MUCH appreciation.

Cheryl

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IBS-D, extreme pain and cramping - GERD - lactose/dairy intolerant, OCD, Fibromyalgia
DX: w/ Multiple Sclerosis 3/10
I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me. Phil 4:13

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