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immodium is a Ibs-d'rs best friend! if i'm out..i have to always make sure i have some on hand, and the advanced is cool becuase it has a mint taste to it too...(the little things in life)
i hate nights like that...especially being around mike, because it's embarassing...i know that they love us with our with out our butt problems, but it still makes you feel sorta unsexy!! though mike farts ALLLL the time...it's not as feminine for me to do! i always drink ginger tea when it's that bad, mixed with fennel, seems to help me...
i use to take like 3 immodiums a day, but now i've gotten to the point where i only take them when i feel i need them, or really do need them. i don't eat many veggies either, for that very reason!!
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That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'm more or less fine as long as I don't eat complex carbs & sugar. Give me a bowl of Rice Krispies and I'm curled up in a ball, in pain. Put a potato on my plate and it feels like someone chucked a baseball at me. I can't even swallow a slice of any kind of bread. Soy anything comes back to haunt me. I'm completely disfunctional. So...I haven't eaten those foods in awhile. Actually, I do much better without complex carbs and follow a more or less lower carb diet. I don't require as high a dose of anti-convulsant drugs when I eat lower carb. Also (and this is weird), my hair grows back. When I tried eating Heather's kind of diet, my hair fell out in chunks, but I now have visible regrowth. My neurologist had to up my anti-convulsant drugs, recently (my blood levels were too low) and I'm adapting to that. I'm spaced out when I eat complex carbs & moody in a bad way. I literally cannot read a book.
However...I can sit there and eat a plate of eggs or meat without a hassle--as long as there is no ketchup or certain seasonings/preservatives. I can handle a small quantity of green vegetables (I'm not good with orange ones!). I'm functional again very quickly & generally require less medication.
I'm just not good at digesting complicated nutritional information. The most sugar I can tolerate is from organic dairy products, i.e. yogurt.
I'm glad that the scd diet has been so effective for your son. I think I'm definitely going to be more diet savvy.
Kate.
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Vaseline!
#247877 - 02/22/06 12:23 PM
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Petroleum jelly is wonderful for all kinds of things. I prefer it to chapstick, too.
Kate.
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I agree. D is most unsexy. And, I think I might give up vegetables forever, except as a sort of condiment--maybe.
Yes, I might turn into one of those cavewomen, afterall!
Peppermint kills the spasms for me, best of all! Double bagged!
I cannot believe how much toilet duck I go through!
Thanks, Lyndsey.
Kate.
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Sorry you are feeling yucky! Get better soon!
Just wanted to let you know that most of the sugar free gums & candies all have one of these in them:sorbitol/mannitol/xilitol/malitol. They give me "D" big time.
Tucks help me a lot when I have a sore bottom. It kinda burns at first but then it soothes.
Barbie
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Goofy! Yes, that would be appropriate for me, too. Actually, I think I'd go for Bart Simpson.
I agree with you about BBQ sauce--very dangerous stuff. Okay, now I hope I'm not being too creepy and personal, but, do you consume any veggies/fruits? I'm considering barely eating any ever again. They always, inevitably, get me in trouble!
I want to be so C beyond belief. Although, and this sounds weird, even when/if I don't eat hardly anything that was a vegetable/fruit...things move...just less violently.
Weird. Anyways, I'm back in fighting form, finally, at five in the afternoon. I just know, though, that more than 3 tbsp. of vegetables would send me running. I also know that I must be ultra cautious with herbs. Seriously...more than 1 tsp. is potential for danger!
Goofy, though...that's good.
Kate. 
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Bart Simpson!! Great idea. 
Ve-gies...? I think I saw one once, very long ago. They're green, right? Kinda taste like dirt?  I steer clear of fruits and veggies. I indulge in a little cran-grape juice every now and again, but that's about it. Potatoes, anything colored red or yellow, or anything I have to peel I run in the other direction of. (I don't know what apples taste like anymore, although I like the way they smell!)
All that vegetal matter gives me killer gas that jumpstarts my D like you wouldn't believe (well i guess *you* would)! The gas is unrelenting and uncontrollable, and my molars are shot to hell from grinding down on all those simethicone tablets. I get ripping pain in my gut from my intestines and stomach expanding... it feels like the star of Aliens 2 is clawing and ripping its way through me. It's the most accurate description of my pain!! 
~nelly~ Veggie free since '93eeeeee
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By the way
#247920 - 02/22/06 03:32 PM
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I'm very C at the moment! Blissfully pain-free C. It's been about 3 days with no D whatsoever, and the only hiccup was that BBQ incident yday. I owe it all to my pain meds which are keeping the pain and D away for now.
It's like a D vacation for me right now. Nice.
~nelly~
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I agree. It's the GAS/potential gas that begins the chain of events. You described the situation perfectly with your Alien 2 analogy--especially the ripping and crawling part. That is exactly what it feels like.
Why play with explosives? Why light matches with those asparagus spears? I can handle about 3 bites. NOW, I must program myself not to feel guilty...you know how they try to feed us this garbage about vegetables and anti-oxidants and fiber...blah, blah, blah. It's a conspiracy! Ever since childhood...they feed us all this garbage/program us! I haven't had a formed stool in goodness knows how long.
Okay, now...I must do some re-programming/self-hypnosis. I must re-write the lines that we are constantly fed about eating "your fruits and vegetables."
Okay, from now on, I'm on the most constipating diet ever imagined. You've convinced me, Nelly. I'm converted. Why punish myself?
I'm 31. I can exempt myself from eating veggies.
Kate.
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A D vacation! Yes, C is a vacation from D. A blissful hiatus. As soon as those hiccups start...I'm doomed too. Have you ever "yeeped?" This is why I can't drink alcohol--I get the hiccups.
Are your pain pills effective? How's the fibro treatment going?
My head is finally not messed up and I think my electrolytes are balanced.
Kate.
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