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Anthem, Thanks very much! It sounds consistent with the BM's I've been having. First thing in the morning, it's just a collection of thin stools. Later, in the morning after drinking plenty of water I get BM's where the stool is larger
lighter in color and much softer, almost like sludge. However,
if I don't get a lot of stool out in the morning, and have BM's later in the day, it's back to the thin stools. Maybe
I need a new anti-spasmodic. I was on Robinul Forte(Glycopyrrolate), and now I'm on Levsin. Are there better antispasmodics you can suggest? Thanks again. -Bob
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I think the juice is mangosteen or something like that. In American money it is an outrageous $25 per bottle. It grows only in certain parts of Australia and must be tended by virgin gardeners who reap the harvest of the fruit only under a full moon while singing the Australian National Anthem. Some of what I just wrote is not true (smile).
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and I was for a little while. And then the month of july came and everything went, um, down the toilet! I've been back and forth between C and D for the entire month of july and beyond. I hope my "stable" moniker didn't throw you for a loop. I thought I had things figured out, but I was wrong.
I had a good month of July with weeks of "torpedo" stools, and I ate the same dull stuff every day. Then suddenly for no reason I started having gas one day really bad (uh oh) and then it lead to "D". I have no idea why. I took Immodium and it shut down, so now I am in the quiet zone, and hope the pendulum of the IBS-A is now going to swing back the other way (away from "D").
But I get really annoyed at people here (and I love them all but I still get annoyed) desperately trying to find THAT ONE TRUE TRIGGER (like the Holy Grail) that started their "D", and if they can just find it, they will never again have a "D" attack.
I love you all and want the same thing, but I just do not think life with IBS is that easy. We do not evevn know what causes it, and I simply do not believe it is controlled 100% purely by what you eat. The latest theories say it is a mind-gut communication dysfunction. So eat your little hearts out, all the most pure food in Eden, but I think there is still missing knowledge (maybe we need to follow Eve and seek the answer from the Tree of Knowledge?). I don't think we know enough about IBS to think we can "out eat" it. If you have an attack, it might be something you ate. True enough. But the reason can be totally oblivious to us!
I remember (was it King George the Third?) who had a rare disease that caused madness and his urine to be blue! This is historical fact. Well, at the time, the way to evaluate a person's health in the 18th century was to see how firm their stools were. His stools were firm, so the best physicians of the period were stumped. But they assumed that since King George was Royalty, this explained why his urine was blue. Of course, now medical science has a name for his rare disease and knows all about the cause and why the urine was blue.
Sometimes as far as IBS goes, we are still in the 18th century and our physicians are just as clueless.
Perhaps in IBS this slang expression and rude bumpersticker is LITERALLY TRUE:
"S**T Happens".
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I think that for a lot of people being 'stable' is more about how they can get about their daily lives, not so much physical symptoms.
Everything she said I think makes perfect sense.
Being stable doesn't mean NEVER having an attack, or a flareup or whatever you want to call it. You will always HAVE the IBS and that means you have to keep in somewhere, but hopefully not at the front!, of your mind. If you go for months being able to not worry about your bowel habbits, but have one bad day after some particularly bad decisions at a Mexican Food Restaurant (not that I'd do that..  ) doesn't mean you aren't stable. It means you made poor choices that as someone with IBS, you can't afford to do WITHOUT expecting consequences.
Good luck!
--Steph
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Thanks, because ultimately my boyfriend (as a reminder, I am gay) says I am obsessed with IBS, and need to make peace and accept it as part of my life instead of being at war with it all the time. He is right. "Resist not evil" and all that jazz. Not sure how to do that except to just allow that having IBS will entail periods when I have "D" and periods when I am just peachy keano!
Hi again!
I just wanted to poke my head in and say one more thing in response to this post about what I quoted there above.
Do you feel like your boyfriend is very supportive of you? It is only too easy for people who AREN'T dealing with this to say, "Deal with it, get over it". I think things like that can be very hurtful, and I hope that you do feel like he is supporting you rather than putting an additional stress on you.
You will learn to deal with this, but it will take time. If you feel like maybe he isn't understanding this, I think it is worth sitting down and talking about. I remember I had to sit my own boyfriend down and say, "Remember that night that you had a bad curry and spent all day in the toilet? Now, imagine me telling you to ignore it, to go out, to have a drink at the pub, to go shopping..." And it totally changed his outlook on it once we talked about it.
Stress is such an important factor in IBS that you need to make sure that you are supporting yourself in the best way possible.
This might TOTALLY not be an issue for you, but I know it was a big one for me and some of what you said sounded so familiar that I just wanted to post. I really get a bad feeling when people make statements like being "obsessed with IBS", it rubs me the wrong way! I think someone else put it best to me when they said, "Is a diabetic obsessed because they have to make sure to eat properly, take insulin properly... Is a parent obsessed with their children because they have to modify their lives around the lives are their children? No. It's not a fair statement!"
I really hope you find your own stable soon, hon!
Cheers!
--Steph
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I know that some of my triggers are food, and stress, but the fact that I got so sick today really brought home the fact that there's no cure and it's totally misunderstood. I find that diet, sleep and probiotic HELPS, but as I've said quite a few times before, I think this is a whole lot deeper than we know yet. Unfortunately. But, if it wasn't, would we have the community we have now in each other? 
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Well being an Aussie girl I can honestly say I've never heard of Mangosteen (although I don't doubt it exists here). I do drink aloe vera juice though which I suppose is much the same type of thing. He he on the dancing around and singing National Anthem whilst harvesting, you dag.
What you said in an above post about food and it not affecting you can be true. I saw my GP recently (and I hold my breath while I post this one for fear of starting a problem  ) and he told me that I've tried every diet there is to control my IBS and it's still out of control. He told me that while the larger population with IBS are helped by diet that some of us (like me) are simply not helped at all no matter what we eat. Mine is largely caused by stress and hormones (the latter I guess you don't have to worry about so much  ) and so I am starting to eat "normally" again after about 5 years of diet fiddling. I'm not saying Heather's diet is not great. It has helped SO many people here, sadly I'm just not one of them. I do hope you find some stability soon, for that matter I hope I do too.
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Hey Astrochick. Would you mind if I e-mailed you privately about the cds? I know there's a board, but I'd like to ask someone individually. Or, would you mind e-mailing me at Passanie@hotmail.com?
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In one thoughtful post, you mentioned support from others. My partner is very supportive, but I nonetheless feel that I need to keep quiet at times, just to preserve his sanity. Afterall, the average citizen doesn't like talking about stool quality and this type of stuff. So I try to keep it to myself unless I really need some emotional/physical stroking. I am sure we can relate, if a member of our family has an ailment (not IBS) and we do care about them greatly, but it can become tedious when they talk about all the time. So in that sense, I sort of suffer on my own. No one is in this body but me (as far as I can tell).
By the way, I have been having horrendous gas and gurgling in the left abdomen (large intestine) and I went out in the sunshine and sat on a parkbench and just took deep breaths and said over and over "My mind and body are peace". It worked! I just pictured my entire body in such relaxation and peace (a biofeedback expert one time told me it is easier to relax the entire body rather than try to relax just one part). The gas has subsided, so perhaps some of this was related to my conscious mind agitating the digestive area. Deep breaths, a sense of safety and talking to yourself in affirmative ways. If God is part of your belief system, talk to this figure also. I'm waiting for some divine advice on all this.
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Steph, I am sort of lost on the forum right now, and want to get off the PC (body tension building). But I did not interpret any of your posts as even hinting I should leave. You said many good positive things.
I keep coming here to support others, and sometimes I miss on that goal. I also come hoping that someone will announce that they found a fantastic product to save us all. Of course, that is also why I get Heather's email newsletter.
By the way, considering that in the USA, 1 out of every 5 people have IBS at some severity level, think what it must be like if you have it and are in Iraq as a soldier. I think that life/death situation would give me the runs even without havving IBS. It must be rough, unless they don't accept people into the USA Military if they admit they have IBS.
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