Drastic measure to resolve IBS-C
#194902 - 07/12/05 09:50 PM
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Anthem
Reged: 10/01/04
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Loc: Phoenix, AZ
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I confess to all of you that I have tried the following in ancient days to get things moving again during a challenging IBS-C period:
1. I gently stuck a broom handle up my posterior and moved it from side to side (inside my posterior) and up/down like a bathroom plunger. This worked to get the motility going again, although people wondered why I kept a broom next to the toilet. In a public place, I would always carry a non ripe banana. Be sure to dispose of the banana thoroughly afterwards so a street person isn't tempted to eat it!
2. I would rock from side to side while driving my car, although this made me look as if I was trying to push the car forward with my body (like Fred Flintstone making his car go with foot power).
3. I would watch really scary movies alone and convince myself that I lived on Elm Street and Freddy was behind my chair, trying to invoke the fight or flight reflex action in the intestines.
4. I would force myself to listen to rap music (or) Laurence Welk on PBS stations (this only worked on Saturday night).
5. I would drink half a can of undilated chocolate syryp (like the kind they make to pour over ice cream). This worked but I also ended up with zits.
6. I would make a date with someone who absolutely intimidated or terrified me. In seconds, all that frozen equipment inside would screech into action and I'd be dumping tons (flight or flight again).
The above is meant in humor since this is such a humorless subject, but I am confessing I have done all the above at some point or other, and I have survived to tell the tale.
Silly me, now I just take huge amounts of fiber supplements and seem to be able to go just about once per day.
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1.I have guzzled a HUGE glass of coke mixed with corn flour as I was told this would clog me up. A few throw ups later and a REALLY sore belly not to mention way more IBS D I finally got it out of my system.
2. A close friend informed me it was NOT coke but corn flour and water and cornflour that would help clog me up. So I tried this one. A few chalky looking poo's later and some shocking nausea and I was right on back to D.
Ummmm 3. I ate nothing but banana's every day for a week and a half as I was told these would also clog me up. Apparantly it turns out i have some weird allergy to banana's and I made myself feel WAY sick not to mention an itchy mouth.
4. I guzzled almost half a packet of immodium. Well that certainly worked. In fact I started wondering if I'd ever go again or if I'd have to go to the hospital and have what was stuck inside surgically removed. Then all of a sudden I went right back to D 
4. When I'm in a lot of pain I lie on my left side, don't move for hours (or until my leg is SO dead I HAVE to move or I'm worried it might have to be amputated or something equally scary) and I shallow breathe and apply pressure to my belly. Weird little ritual of mine I guess.
So nothing quite as drastic as some of your measures but I'm trying to get things to stay in not come out 
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Amy
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See, you totally had me convinced with that stuff!
The broom....OUUUUUCH!!
i have had one barium enema and it hurt so badly that I felt raped.
i've been known to definitely drink a gallon of milk to poop IMMEDIATELY and it does work but hurts like hell for the following week. LOL 
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I've always breathed in,held my breath, pushed REALLY HARD on my left side, and pushed the "toots" around in there.... and it usually does make a fart come out. But poo? nope.
Ah such a fun topic.
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I read this while waiting IMPATIENTLY to get into the bathroom. I must say as a -C- I FELT like I had a broom inside. Great way to start the day ... with a good poo laugh.
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Carol
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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