This is gross!!
#179565 - 05/17/05 09:41 AM
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m_odonnell
Reged: 05/14/05
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Loc: Phoenix, AZ
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This is going to get personal, but I need some advise. I have never had this happen before and if anyone can offer some advise as to what to do to help me out, I would appreciate it!! On Saturday, I had an edisode of D really really bad. I took a lomotal, and even that took 2 hours to kick in (norm takes 1/2 hour). Since then I haven't had a BM for 2 days - today is day 3. On Sat. I just had a cup of Chicken broth and some gatorade (before I knew of the HFCS). Sun. I had applesauce, plain potato and plain rice and only water and chomole (sp?) tea to drink. Then Mon. I had applesauce (bfast), 1 morning star sausage patty, 1/2 bagel, and a little bit of egg beater (lunch) and morning star corn dogs and plain potato(dinner) with a cup of peppermint tea. Today I have had nothing except peppermint tea. Now for the really gross part...I have been trying to have a BM today. I have really bad cramps every couple of min. All that is coming out is white jelly-like stuff. Is this normal?? I have never had this happen before. What can I do to feel better? Please help!!! I am miserable!
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The white jelly thing happened to me over the holidays and it totally freaked me out, so I took myself off to the doc-in-the-box. It turned out I had an intestinal virus or bacteria. The white ick was mucus. (Oh, gross!) The doctor put me on Tylenol+Codeine. It took care of the cramps (which were incredibly painful) and it also made me C. This was fine with me, because prior to the mucus event, I had been having terrible D.
I hope this helps and I also hope you feel better soon!
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It actually does help. This episode seems diff than the others. I talked to a doc on Sat because I was totally freaked out that the Lomotal didnt work. I was just trying to decide if I needed to call the doc now or if I am just being a baby! Thanks!
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Mucous...
#179815 - 05/18/05 09:15 AM
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Linz
Reged: 09/01/03
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Loc: England
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...is a pretty common problem. Your GI tract produces an excess when it's cramping.
I'd stick to nothing but SF for a few days.
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That makes sense. I am going to try just eating SF for a few days. Anything to get this to go away. I hate this! It seems like no matter what I eat, as soon as it hits my tummy, I feel nauseated. Do you think it may be just because everything is all yucky right now?
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Actually...
#179831 - 05/18/05 10:05 AM
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Linz
Reged: 09/01/03
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Loc: England
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...you may find that eating more often will help. And sugary foods are more helpful with nausea. Also. ginger is fantastic for it.
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Gallbladder
#180469 - 05/21/05 07:48 AM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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I was looking for something last night and ran across your first post in which you said you had your gall bladder out and ended up with IBS-D. Did your doctors consider the possibility that your problems are being caused by your gall bladder removal? In some people, that results in an inability to process fats properly which leads to diarrhea.
You can read what Heather has to say about it here.
I realize this is a long shot, but since you said you weren't super-impressed with your doctors, I thought I'd bring it up, just in case.
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While reading online some more, I came accross that same info...that it could be because I have no gallbladder. I used to be on medicine for it, cholestormine (sp?). I was still taking it when I had my first really bad episode of D, it lasted 2 weeks. So, I am unsure what is going on. Usually with gallbladder, the tummy aches go away, but the D stays. Maybe I have that in combination with bad acid in my tummy. All I know is I am miserable and I have to wait until Monday for the drs to even see me. I was actually thinking I should ask them to put me back on the gallbladder meds and give me Preacid again and maybe it will help. Before I had my first bad episode of D, I actidentally ate a pork chop that was undercooked, so maybe it was just a super long case of food poinsioning. I sure hope so. If this has all been brought on by my gallbladder (or lack of one...) then I sure do miss it. They say you dont need it, but I sure do disagree with that one...
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Re: Gallbladder
#180480 - 05/21/05 10:13 AM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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I'm sorry you're so miserable. Good luck with the doctors on Monday. I hope you can get this all sorted out soon.
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I dunno if I am happy or sad to be reading this... because I have the same problems, and it seems to me that having these symptoms due to gallbladder removal and not common IBS is sort of a permanent problem and can only be "band aided" and not really overcome.
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