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No, I've never taken a cleanses b/c my GI doc (the best in this country) AND Heather are against them. It has been scientifically recorded that part of what causes the IBS symtoms is that if you give our guts any stimuli they totally over-react (an allergic reaction is a good analogy to this) and that's why we get D, C, pain, etc from stimuli that would be fine on a non-IBSer.

And I am NOT talking about a Herxheimer reaction here. You run the risk of making your IBS permanently worse with a cleanses b/c your body could take it as another insult to the gut (like the kind of thing that can trigger off IBS in the first place). I would NEVER take that risk, it is not worth it.

Alot of so-called cures and remedies for IBS have absolutely no scientific backing or studies done. Alot of people with IBS are also mis-diagnosed (which is why you sometimes get people who swear by stimulant laxatives for example - they would likely have chronic constipation not IBS).

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