Lyndsey and epa ginger, question about pregnancy!
#246716 - 02/16/06 09:22 AM
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rn21666
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I have been stable for almost 4 months and now that I am pregnant my stomach has been turned upside down and is causing me trouble again. I am D promient and the D has reared its ugly head. How are your pregnancys going? Is there anything in particular that you do to help with your IBS while being pregnant. Any thoughts or advice I would appreciate.
Brandy
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congrats!! i'm mostly d too  i do have bouts of d. this week i'd had been having cramping. I still take immodium which is safe to take when preggers...and i take dicylamine which is also safe to take durring pregnancy...
when i do feel not so good i also drink ginger tea, and fennel mixed together, becuase i don't really like the taste of fennel by itself.
at night (i'm a waitress) when i get off of work i use a heating pad for my lower back, which has always seemed to put less strain on my body, and helps my tummy some how.
But there are certain things i'll say i have to complain which you being d will understand...my cravings i don't really have, because i cna't really indulge. I have soy icecream, skittles, whole food doughnuts...lol..but it's hard with the cravings too!
also you can appreciate it, or soon will be able to, when i feel baby move...i feel like i'm about to have a bad gas explosion, or d...but it's just the baby jumping on my intestine!! (so there is a little feeling of relief there...haha..no one else can understand that fear, then sudden calm!)
but i say immodium, and tums are great over the counter safe things to take, then the teas. it's made a WORLD of a difference for me!! laying down has helped me, like yesterday i wasn't feeling too good (i also ate 4 chocolate chip cookies for some stupid reaaon) so i layed down on my left side (which was the side my body was teling me to lay on) and rested...i felt alot better....
however, i got sent home yesterday from work.i'll post that a little later though. hope that's helped you some??
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Thanks for your reply. I did not have IBS until after I gave birth to my son 2 years ago. So this pregnancy is completely different already. I was not sure about the immodium and tums so thanks for mentioning them. Do you know if we are able to drink peppermint tea? I know there is a big thing on herbs and pregnancy because not enough studies have been done. I dont mind sucking it up and taking the pain but if I can relieve it some how that would be awesome.
I usually try to take a hot bath or shower when my stomach starts to act up but that is hard when you have another one (as I am sure you know) especially the bath because he constantly begs me to let him in.
Also did you develop hemrrhoids during either one of your pregnancy's? I did and that just makes the whole situation worse.
Anyway thanks for you help and thanks for listening to me ramble on.
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Hi! How far along are you? I'm C, so yes, that's come back. I had gotten it well under control by using Benefiber, and had even slacked off on Benefiber, until I found out I was pregnant and then soon the C was back. So I'm upping my dosage again, and hoping that will help. But I also get bloated, gassy, the works. Boo! I think it just comes along with the territory, even for women who didn't have IBS before.
I say ask your doctor about what is safe to take to treat your D!
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I am only 5 weeks! This pregnancy is just so different then my first so I feel completely lost all over again. Thanks for your advice!
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i do peppermint tea, i've heard it can soften your cervix..from someone on here...but i've had a little...not a whole lot...
havne't gotten hemerroids at all...thank god!! becuase i'm mostly d..i've been pretty lucky for that...
i didn't seem to really really have IBS until about a year and a half ago...but i realize now alot of problems i had ws probably because of IBS symptoms...but it got really bad last year, and my daughter is 5 1/2 so this is pretty new for me and pregnancy too!!
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