Re: Aloe
#173634 - 04/25/05 07:27 PM
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Augie
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Here's two posts that Heather provided on aloe.
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So I would assume that external use is perfectly safe. And no such thing as silly questions! 
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Thanks so much. I'm working my way through the "Research Library" section (and other medical sources) but it's allot to take in. I've got the dining room table covered with open medical books. (Currently about IBS and about burn treatment). I'm always researching something, LOL.
It helps so much though to have someone who can give a point (or occasionally a shove) in the right direction. Thanks so much!
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I love the phrase at the bottom of your posts. I've been meaning to tell you this. It is good cognitive therapy! A different way to consider the circumstances we have found ourselves in (not willingly)!
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Thanks!
#173659 - 04/25/05 08:09 PM
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I love it too. And *try* my best to live by it.
I started using it first a couple years ago, when I was in serious pain from another medical condition. It's always hard not to sink into that "poor me, oh well, the day is wasted already, I won't even get out of bed" type of thought. Some days, excruciatingly hard.
But, in that instance, I started doing better (and feeling better) on the days I did *something*, even if it was to meet a friend for tea for just half an hour. That made the day worth it. (Because that was the *whole* day for me then.)
Then "this" IBS thing happened. And it was back to the same cycle of being brave enough to go out, even if I had to leave 100 times because of D (only barely an exaggeration). I'm working, and I'm trying. But...I'm living!
It helps me to have that as my sig. Makes me accountable to my own philosophy, hehe.
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Thanks for the thoughts on aloe. I'm trying to stop taking the IBX stuff, but it has really made me feel so much better... well, I'm just waiting on that new medicine to come in and then (hopefully) I will not need any of it! 
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Elizabeth
all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
send me an email: liz@dopple.net
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I won't be taking the stuff anymore. Cathartic colon? *Ew*
Thanks for the heads up, Augie.
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Elizabeth
all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
send me an email: liz@dopple.net
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I wake up a bit gassy  and then after about an hour I'm fine as long as I've had a safe and substantial breakfast.
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Oh I love that! Makes it seem so much more manageable to call them 'morning glories'! Thanks for sharing. I'll have to use that...although for me, it might have to mean "liquid gas"....
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Mornings are worse than evenings unless I'm about to have an attack but in the general scheme of things I'm always running late cause I was too scared to leave my loo!
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Amy
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