The First Year: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

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The First Year: IBS, by Heather Van Vorous ~ FULL DESCRIPTION BELOW

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* Addresses Multiple IBS Symptoms
* Comprehensive Diagnostic Information
* All-Inclusive Treatment Options
* Paperback: 242 pages
* Excellent reviews by Library Journal and Publishers Weekly
* Excerpts used by physicians and dietitians across the USA
* Endorsed by the UK Register of IBS Hypnotherapis
* Recommended by the UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders

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The First Year: IBS offers a comprehensive and sympathetic approach to managing irritable bowel syndrome (whether you're newly diagnosed or have been struggling for years), by an author who has dealt with the disorder since childhood and prevailed. Whether you suffer from constipation, diarrhea, alternating bowel dysfunction, pain, bloating, gas, or nausea, this essential guide gives you the information you need to take control of your symptoms today.

An easy-to-follow daily/weekly/monthly calendar structure teaches you about the physical pathology behind IBS while giving a multitude of ways to successfully live with it, with a constant focus on symptom prevention.

The research for The First Year: IBS incorporates suggestions, concerns, and personal stories from many Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers, and offers:

* in-depth diagnostic and medical information for IBS treatments, drugs, and research
* extensive suggestions for using supplements and herbs to prevent symptoms
* innovative and successful IBS stress management techniques
* suggestions for dealing with friends and family members
* concise and accurate IBS diet guidelines with sample recipes
* effective alternative therapies for a spastic colon, including acupuncture
* detailed information about yoga and hypnotherapy for IBS
* IBS support group resources
* traveling and socializing suggestions

There are also special sections throughout the book just for children with IBS and their parents. These chapters draw extensively from the author's own perspectives, experiences, and memories from childhood, and address the unique concerns that children with IBS often face.

**Customer Reviews**
Heather, your first year book, the supplements and now acupuncture have helped so much. I fired my regular doctors, all the pills they would give me made me worse. It is sad to say, because I am a nurse and work in the medical field, how bad Western medicine treats this issue. I have met so many people who have been diagnosed with this and are unaware of the help that is out there. People who know me told other people at work this isn't the real Tawny. After firing my doctors and getting off their medication and following your program and acupuncture finally this week a co-worker said, "Now, that is the 'real Tawny', she is back!" Not at 100% but on my way! I just wish everyone who suffers from this would find out there is help. But you have to find it yourself, doctors have no idea how to help. When I would bring up your book they would just blow me off! I see them in the hospital once in awhile, nursing pays my bills but I encourage patients to learn about whatever illness they have. The more educated one is about their illness the better they are. People need advocates, especially when they are ill and they don't have the energy to go look for it. Thank God for the internet, because while I was at home ill I spent time researching this and found you! Sorry to go on for so long, reading your story and learning this new way I wish I had learned 25 years ago when I was first diagnosed with it. Instead my life has been a fog, and somehow I have managed to survive. I am hoping my children will see how much diet affects one's life and how important the whole person (mind, body and spirit) affect your health. I just can't thank you enough! Even my sister in Japan who I sent your book to is doing better, and she suffers from this as well as lupus. God Bless! Tawny Liddell

Dear Heather, I too have suffered with IBS since a young age and a friend gave me your book a couple years ago and I wanted to personally say THANK YOU!!! You are a true inspiration and you give everyone else out there a will to make it through the day. I have just stumbled upon your website and am thrilled to see you have a line of teas and more products coming out. It is about time!!! Thank you again for doing this for me and every other IBS patient out there. Thank you, Kristen Delamore

Dear Heather, I just wanted you to know that your book has been a lifeline for me this year. I developed IBS suddenly in the last 8 months of graduate school at age 52. After seeing three doctors and eating all the wrong foods, I found your book on the Internet. As I followed the principles and altered my diet, I was able to manage the symptoms and begin living a nearly normal life. I stilll have daily IBS symptoms but your guidelines helped me feel more normal, complete graduate school and deal with the stress without much pain. Hopefully my progress will improve faster now that I have graduated. I look forward to more info on your web site and am ready to try some more therapies. Thanks, Gay Mitchell

Dear Heather, I would also like to add my very, very grateful thanks for all the research and work you did to publish your book. It has changed my life drastically as I was almost homebound because of attacks I had quite frequently from diverticulitis. It took at least 7 months for digestion changes to take place and get things calmed down, but I no longer am afraid of eating the foods I know are safe and have eliminated the foods you have suggested. Thank you again for your wonderful book. B. Kenny

Dear Heather: Your books and website have been extremely helpful to me. I can't begin to thank you enough for all of the work you have put into IBS solutions and information. To gain knowledge is a wonderful thing, but to share it is the best gift you can ever give to others. I recently went through 4 months of the worst IBS/Colitis episodes I have ever had. When I discovered your website and purchased your books I started to learn how to deal with my IBS/Colitis better by changing the way I eat. I have been to several doctors and they just didn't know what to do to help me. I felt like I was a guinea pig, as most treatments and medications didn't work on me. I was recently prescribed Zelnorm, and I ended up with the most severe ischemic colitis attack I have ever had - it lasted a day and a half. Needless to say I threw the Zelnorm away. Your book and website have been my salvation. You're the best, Cheryl Evenson

Heather, I have read your books and have not felt better in the last ten years. No one, including doctors, suggested to me that IBS could be controlled by diet. I have been basically symptom free for 30 days, except for 1 or 2 episodes. Thank you for your years of work, and the ability to share it. J. Johnson

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