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I just haven't found a way to "remedy" mine yet. Through a diet or a supplement. What other options/tools/aids do you think we can use?
And, Kate, do you think this is permanent damage?
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Thanks Bob
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Yep..wouldn't wish an Eating Disorder on my worst enemy!  Horrible existence.
I'm not sure when this new med study is suppose to start. I pray they don't cancel it. Speaking of which, I still need to make a follow up appointment with him that I've been putting off for weeks. I don't know if the Buspar is helping or not. But it's still a shot.
Thanks for the hugs and the continual support.
BTW....I don't think of Dr. J as pro active. He doesn't seem to be ordering many tests and what not for me. How would you say he has been pro active with you?
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With the pain? Or the anxiety? How much are you taking? I take 1/2 pill twice a day. I think it's a 15 mg pill????
I've only been on it for less than a month. Too early to see any benefits yet? 
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Yes, I do. I'm basically stubborn-a$$ed about it. I've gone through therapy, I take Buspar for anxiety issues (and yes, specific foods/food situations trigger E.D. and IBS anxiety, panic) and basically make a choice re: everything that enters my body. I listen to my body. I do not cheat myself of offering nutrients to my body which she finds acceptable. I do not force-feed.
I think the most effective therapy type for my E.D., besides in hospital to get me physically stabilized, was E.M.D.R. (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) I learned the difference between then & now, triggers, memories, etc.
I live within my capacity re: food issues. If it bugs me, I don't consume it. There are tons of food options out there.
If vegetables give me gas/indigestion to the point that they make me throw up, I DO NOT EAT THEM! HOWEVER, if there is a pill/supplement that assists with the assimilation & processing of nutrients (and it's not outrageously expensive), then I USE IT! I cannot tell you how much better I feel & the degree that the plant-food has changed my health status/life/attitude. Until Beano, I had stopped eating vegetables because they HURT & made me ill.
I'm not saying that Beano is the answer for you. I know you have a digestive disorder involving delayed gastric emptying. What kinds of tools would help get you in better form? A food processor? Nutritional counselling? Enzymes?
I don't know. I do know that MIND works WITH MATTER and that more than half the battle takes place in parts of my mind-scape that I am barely acquainted with. Stuff way past
Psych 101.
Being healthy is a lifestyle. We can never really see ourselves truly as we are.
Honestly Beth, you're worth some therapy. You are worth nutritional counselling. You can work with limitations.
Everyday is a choice.
Kate, IBS-D.
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I take 4 x 10mg of Buspar, daily.
It reduces the degree of my INTENSE anxiety & panic. Honestly, I'm so bad that I have panic attacks when I'm alone!
I used to crawl the house at night from every sound. I couldn't shop effectively due to public panic attacks.
Now, my life is more fun. I GO OUT! Shopping, for example, doesn't give me a MAJOR PANIC ATTACK. I go to movies. I get out for dinner. I VISIT MORE. It helped to make me more receptive to therapy. I'm not afraid to eat or sleep or be social, etc. I'm not afraid to move on. Trying new things is not so terror-inducing!
I'm learning to reinterpret anxious energy/physical responses as positive excitement.
Kate, IBS-D.
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I only take it when I eat veggies. I don't get quite as bad of gas as you seem to, so I am ok with skipping the beano if I'm at home. I mainly take it when I am around other people so I don't have to worry about passing gas in public.
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Kate, Our GI doc told Beth that the Buspar should help her
with lower abdominal pain. Have you found that it relieves
that kind of pain for yourself? -Bob
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Beth, Oh, I doubt they'll cancel it. Part of Dr.J's job is to
do that kind of research. Kate said that the Buspar is a big
help for her. Thus far I have yet to hear anything bad about
it. I just asked her if it specifically helps her with lower
abdomonal pain.
Concerning Dr.J's proactivity. After my first visit last
May, He was very suspicious that I had some kind of pelvic
floor descent, and immediately wrote a letter to my GI doc
up here offering to do the AM and MRI defacography. My GI
doc up here deferred on because he said that if I got bad
results on the tests, that Dr.J was going to want me to
have surgery done in the AR area, and he didn't think it
was a good idea. I don't know where he got that idea
because Dr.J is not pro surgery,i.e., he doesn't rush to
push someone into surgery. Even though I have pelvic floor
descent he did not recommend surgery. Evidentally Dr.J
likes to vacation up here and goes out to dinner with the
GI docs here.
You should him and or Margo about the MRI defacography,
and mention that I had both the AM and MRI, and the MRI
detected the pelvic floor descent that the AM did not.Dr.J
also told that the reason he also recommended the MRI was
that the AM didn't necessarily detect the pelvic floor
descent. -Bob
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I've been on Buspar for about a year, 15 mg day. About 6-8 weeks into taking it, I realized that my abdominal pain, lower left that has always been there for the last 12 years, was significantly reduced. I actually have days without pain. It's unbelievable. I think I'm still in shock. It's definitely not a cure and I still get those attacks of pain, but it is a tremendous help and a great relief to not have to deal with it on a daily basis.
I was originally prescribed the medication for anxiety (which was triggered, in part, from a bad IBS flare-up and debilitating pain), but when I noticed this side effect my doctor and I looked into it and apparently Buspar is being looked at as an IBS drug. This is what I found on medicinenet.net :
"There are drugs that stimulate another receptor, the 5-HT1 receptor. Examples of this type of drug are sumatriptan (Imitrex) and buspirone. These drugs are believed to reduce the responsiveness (sensitivity) of the sensory nerves to what's happening in the intestine. The 5-HT1 receptor stimulators, however, have not yet been tested for effectiveness in IBS."
I would love to know if clinical trials are being done. Also, I would say it's too soon for Beth to be seeing any results. Your doctor should know if you need to increase the dose, otherwise I'd say you should be seeing the full effect around week eight. Also, make sure you consistently take your dose with or without meals. I take 7.5 mg right after breakfast and the other half after dinner.
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Quote:
You should him and or Margo about the MRI defacography,
and mention that I had both the AM and MRI, and the MRI
detected the pelvic floor descent that the AM did not.Dr.J
also told that the reason he also recommended the MRI was
that the AM didn't necessarily detect the pelvic floor
descent.
I'm pretty sure I already asked and he said I didn't need one.
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