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Oh my, you say so clearly what all of us feel.
I'll give you my two pennies, just so that you can feel even more overwhelmed.
1. I'm going to sound like a broken record here because I've said this so many times, but you might try eliminating soy from your diet. It's much harder than skipping soy sauce and tofu - soy and soybean oil is in every single processed food on the planet. When you go out to eat, you are ingesting huge amounts of cheap soybean oil. Read labels to see how soy has infiltrated all our food. If I have even a tiny bit, I'm absolutely miserable with every IBS symptom known to man and woman. D and C and bloating and gas and it lasts for several days. When I cut soy out of my diet, the majority of my symptoms went away and I lost 10 pounds, almost overnight.
2. If I could follow my own advice (which follows), I think I would kick IBS. Eat small meals. No more than a cup of food at a time. Yeah, that's not much, but when you read about the capacity of the stomach and how it functions, it makes loads of sense. If I eat only a small amount of food, I feel absolutely fine. But my love of the eating process pushes me to eat more... certainly more than I need... to the point of over-fullness. I notice that being "satisfied" isn't satisfying to me - I need to be stuffed to feel full, if that makes any sense. Today I'm going to try my darnedest to eat small portions ALL DAY and see if I'm symptomatic.
It's all a big puzzle... a cosmic joke even. I'm so glad we're all here to vent to!!!
Jennifer
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Jennifer
42 years old
Neither D nor C - just sluggish
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...some of us just can't go without medication....like Miralax.  And the meds for depression/anxiety/ADD are necessary for some too.
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I definetly recommend Acacia. If your main problem right now is gas, then I have a few suggestions:
Beano - it's a digestive enzyme which targets gas-producing foods preventing the gas in the first place, take 1 tablet per 1/2 cup 'Beano foods'
Fennel tea/seeds: if you don't like the taste of the tea, try chewing the seeds and then swallowing them with some water.
Gas-X/simethicone: taken with meals or before bed at night, this helps relieve trapped gas
Other digestive enzymes may help, but I don't have personal experience with them.
I hope you find something that helps,
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Kat
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I hate to say it but I understand exactly how you feel - I am totally frustrated and getting very depressed over my bowel not settling down - you said it all in your post. I can't go on barely eating anything and yet if I add food in I fear I may be worse - I am loosing muscle mass and cannot build up , my body hurts and Dr.'s give me no help- I have a good day and then a bad day ,on and off, on and off - I have the hypno CD's and pray that they offer some help. IBS-A
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I am getting very depressed by it all - I know I already posted but I have to add in that tonight my physiotherapist told me that basically she has done all she can do and no point in me coming back - my body is having so much trouble building muscle and I am in knot over what to eat - back aches, muscle loss, sore joints - I don't know if it is all IBS but Dr's tell me nothing is wrong with me! Sorry for carrying on but I am really at a bad point. IBS_A
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What kind of doctor did you go to? Maybe you should see a specialist for sore joints, etc., possibly a rhumatologist?? Just a suggestion...it could be more than IBS. I'd want to have a full blood work up.
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Originally IBS-D for a million years!
Then IBS-A, Now a transformed slightly C
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Quote:
I definetly recommend Acacia. If your main problem right now is gas, then I have a few suggestions:
Beano - it's a digestive enzyme which targets gas-producing foods preventing the gas in the first place, take 1 tablet per 1/2 cup 'Beano foods'
Fennel tea/seeds: if you don't like the taste of the tea, try chewing the seeds and then swallowing them with some water.
Gas-X/simethicone: taken with meals or before bed at night, this helps relieve trapped gas
Other digestive enzymes may help, but I don't have personal experience with them.
I hope you find something that helps,
Would you recommend dropping Acadia and Acidophillus with these?
I want to thank ALL of you for your posts.
It makes me feel somewhat better that I am not alone.
However, I think WE ALL can agree, it is absurd that for something as clear cut as IBS, they can't cure it.
I personally hate GI doctors, because their purpose is to treat medical disorders.
There are many more disorders more serious than IBS, yet why are they so stupid when it comes to this?
If you know the way they body functions, THEN WHY can't you tell us what to do Einsteins?
They get 200k a year, and what do they do?
They should be paid a commision, by sucess rate for treating IBS.
They don't care.
They don't have the disorder.
They have the Mercedes.
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IBS-C and Bloating
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Originally IBS-D for a million years!
Then IBS-A, Now a transformed slightly C
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They don't deserve anything.
They don't do the job.
This is not cancer, what's the big holdup?
What do they teach you in medical school?
If you are so smart and know so much about the body organs, then why can't you do your job?
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I definetly recommend Acacia. If your main problem right now is gas, then I have a few suggestions:
Beano - it's a digestive enzyme which targets gas-producing foods preventing the gas in the first place, take 1 tablet per 1/2 cup 'Beano foods'
Fennel tea/seeds: if you don't like the taste of the tea, try chewing the seeds and then swallowing them with some water.
Gas-X/simethicone: taken with meals or before bed at night, this helps relieve trapped gas
Other digestive enzymes may help, but I don't have personal experience with them.
I hope you find something that helps,
OK, I will buy Gas-x tomorrow.
Please tho, I need structure.
Should I
1) Continue Acidophillus, Miralax, Benefiber, and a High Fiber Diet
2) Get Digestive Enzymes
3) Get Acadia
4) Do Tong Reng or Hypno
What should I be taking as supplements and what should the plan be?
I am confused if I should
1) Drop everything and just do Gas x
2) Drop everything and do Gas x with Acadia
3) Do Gas X, Acadia, drop Benefiber, and stick with the rest
Thanks.
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