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You said it. This does suck big time!!! Totally relate with obsessing 24/7 on what to eat, what not to eat, how my body is going to react to what I eat, when to fit it taking SFS, triphala, meds, and all the other crap, I mean supplements. It's exhausting. And half the time I can't remember if I took one thing or the other, which stresses me out too. Did I just take my magnesium, or was that a klonopin I just took!

I feel like an old lady with my pill container and my citricel (old people stuff)!

This is worse than obsession with the ED. At least then it was just not to eat. Didn't involve pain or all these supplements and meds. Boy I thought nothing could be worse than the anorexia and bulimia. Was I wrong!

Do you think that the eating disorder is what is causing our IBS? I do. I think I screwed up my GI system royaly from the abuse I put my body through. I think the bowels are confused and the whole GI system is whacked permanently. I know there are at least 3 other people on the boards besides you and me who have had an Eating Disorder before this all started so I don't think it is a coincidence.

Seems like a cruel joke that once we decide to get healthy and eat right our bodies now won't allow us. First we chose not to eat and now our bodies won't let us eat. That's cruel irony, isn't it?

Let me know how the g-zymes go for you, if you ever check your mail! I have some miralax now, but didn't start it yet. For some reason I had D today

. I ate Lentil soup 4 days in a row in a desperate effort to have a BM! Total gas!!! Good thing I live alone!! But it did it's job, even during the week when I usually can't go (shy bowel thing). But I must of O.D. on them because this morning, Yipes!. Plus, I was taking prunes at night!!

So maybe I'll just cut the lentils to every other day and just deal with the gas for those days!

Oh, I saw your question to Michele on why she is stopping miralax. Just wanted to let you know that I pulled up that post from like a year ago, so she isn't going off of it now. I don't know why she was going to before, but I assure you, she swears by that medication and will never give it up until they come up with a cure for IBS. Like that will ever happen. These scientists don't seem to care very much about helping the IBS folks. Maybe if they had to live like this they might try a little harder to find something!

And thanks again for your kind words earlier in the week when I lost it. When I read that post downing triphala, I just cried. I just wanted to give up. I try so hard to research and to look for anything that will help. And the post just kind of was another slap in the face. Just one more hope that was squashed! Yes, this IBS has consumed my life. If I'm not doubled over in pain, I'm on the IBS board or the internet researching treatments. That's all I do. I don't socialize or have fun or anything. My life is consumed with IBS crap. Gotta work on that. But then I feel guilty if I'm not trying to find a treatment. So, guess I can't win.
I should have emailed you this, as I'm sure noone is going to be interested in reading my long post!

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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!

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