REPORTING IN -- Valerie
#330636 - 06/05/08 08:11 AM
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6/2/08 - Monday
Breakfast:
1/2 cinnamon raisin bagel w/cream cheese, iced tea (last me until lunch time)
Snack: Applesauce
Lunch: more applesauce
Dinner 6:30pm: white rice w/chicken broth & garlic salt.
Felt bloated and gassy most of day. Painful cramps.
Sticky BM, nausea, panicy afterwards around 3pm.
4pm: GI doc appt.
6/3/08 - Tuesday
Breakfast: dry Honey Combs, Iced Tea
Snack: Applesauce
Lunch: grilled chicken & mushrooms with tiny tiny bit of honey BBQ sauce not cooked on chicken just touched my chicken with it as I ate, water
Snack: dry Honey Combs
Dinner: 2 slices sourdough bread, watery gatorade
Walked 1 mile today.
Fatigued. Painful cramps. Nausea with dry heaves. Before bed explosive BM. Had to use heating pad at bedtime.
6/4/08 - Wednesday
Breakfast: 2 slice sourdough bread dry, iced tea
Snack: Rold Gold Pretzels
Lunch: white rice w/chicken broth & grilled chicken, didn't finish eating it because I had IBS attack 10 minutes after started eating. IBS: dier rush to bathroom, only flatuence and food sitting at top of my stomach then coming back up into my throat. Sipped water.
3pm IBS: dier rush to bathroom, this time had chunky and mushy D. Energy completely drained out of me. Pain in Upper Right Quadrant. Went back to my desk and put heating pad on tummy. Totally aggravated and hopeless.
Dinner: 2 slices sour dough bread, watery gatorade.
oh what a miserable day.
Edited by Valerie A. (06/05/08 06:08 PM)
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Maybe you should cut out the tea.
I cramp and run to bathroom after all herbal teas.
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IBS-D since 1999...mostly stable..i do cheat too.Bad me.
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6/5/08 - Thursday
Initial morning feeling really good. Expecting today to be a really good day.
Breakfast: Iced Tea, dry Honey Combs
Already feeling acid reflux into esophagus and nausea.
Snack: pretzels
Lunch: Italian Ice cup (I was surprised it did not contain HFC)
I think the coldness caused some sharp twinges in tummy.
Dinner: roasted white potatoes, water
IBS attack: driving on way to church tonight and had to turn around head back home, barely made it to bathroom... doubled over painful D. completely wiped my energy out of me.
Thoughts
I don't care for hot drinks, so I drink fresh brewed lipton iced tea. I don't get it, how teas can be a GI irritant. I guess anything can be really. It's just a mystery. The tea does have caffeine. That could be it also??? I'm very tired and frustrated tonight.
Irritating note: Oldest sister called me today, I told her I was about to call her yesterday on my way home from work because I was having a really bad day with attacks, and wanted to vent. She said she would have made me forget about all my troubles, by her complaining about her own. I told her, yeah I know.. that's why I didn't call.
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Funny.Sisters.
Hope you feel better soon.
I can't drink lipton tea either.
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IBS-D since 1999...mostly stable..i do cheat too.Bad me.
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dragonfly -- thanks for keeping up with me here. your feedback is very encouraging. You're the best!!
6/6/08 - Friday
Breakfast: bagel with small amount of cream cheese, iced tea
Lunch: small pasta shells w/italian dressing of some kind, 2 olives, small piece of bbq ribs, glass of bottled lipton sweet tea.
-- within 15 minutes after eating lunch, I was cramping up and some flatuence.
Dinner: water, roasted white potatoes.
Thoughts:
Had work picnic today. Was so anxious about going, because I knew there would be virtually no IBS safe foods. Seen the pasta shells, and had that as a good base of my meal. Ate that first. Considering I went off the BTC diet today, I didn't do too bad with attacks. I left early from picnic, and kept busy cleaning windows and doing laundry at home.
I keep thinking about what to do for exercise and how to incorporate exercise into my daily routine. I don't really have a routine, maybe I need to make one a priority.
OH I have this blistery rash on my chest. Probably from sunburn I got earlier in week. It's itching and driving me crazyyyyy.. I'm also wondering if my body is maybe getting rid of some toxins??
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hey Val!
breakfast sounds yummy!!
Do you have any dairy problems?Cream cheese isn't so good for d. I can tolerate a bit of icecream or milk if I have a HUGE meal of pasta or bread or potato.I love cream cheese but I'm afraid to try it right now.
For lunch: the BBq sauce might have had a trigger for you. I can't eat any bottled BBQ sauce.Major d!!!
I think you should cut out the tea for a few days.Try drinking distilled water. If you drink bottled water try to get reverse osmosis or distilled. We bought a distiller for our well and I won't drink anything else.
Do you make your own iced tea?And if you do , do you use tap water? City water is bad on your stomach because of the chemicals they use to purify it.
Treated water kills the bacteria but the nasty little bodies are left for you to drink up. Gross huh. If you have any parasites in your body(which I'm told we all do) they feed off their dead friends and produce problems for their hosts(us).Distilled water doesn't contain any dead bodies or harmful solids.Yay!
So...I always carry a bag of pretzels with me so if I am going to eat something questionable, I have a base in my tummy.
They say exercise helps to relieve cramping but man all I want to do is curl up and DIE when I have an attack.
Sunburns must be the hot trend this week.Both my boys are burnt and can't lift their arms. Guess mom knows what she's talking about when she says put on a SHIRT!lol
Hope you are feeling better soon.
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IBS-D since 1999...mostly stable..i do cheat too.Bad me.
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This is what's all confusing/overwhelming to me. At home and at work I drink bottled water, Poland Spring & Crystal Rock brands. I cook with regular tap water that comes from town (used to be well water).
The inconsistancy of the IBS attacks is what throws me off. I'm never quite sure what could be triggering them. I'm afraid to just eat SF foods for more than 7 days, but I think I'll need to do some type of complete Elimination diet in order to figure out my true triggers.
Would only eating from Heather's SF food list be okay for 6 weeks? Would that list be a good elimination diet?
Then to add in exercise... oh boy 
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Your bottled water is not distilled.
When water is treated, it kills the bacteria but the dead bodies are still there.same as bottled water.Tap water is bad on your stomach.They put chemicals in it that are not friendly.
Look for actual distilled water.We have a distiller but I recommend you try bottled distilled first.A distiller is expensive but we live in the country near pig and chicken farms so thats all we drink or cook with.
You need to boil water at a roiling boil for at least 15 minutes to kill any germs but even then you are concentrating the amount of dead bacteria in your water.
You wouldn't believe the differance in the color of tea when you use distilled water vs tap. That was gross and we bought a distiller immediately!!
Try this for a while.I know if I am out and by bottled water it makes me feel crappy.
Bottled water is the biggest scam going!! 
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IBS-D since 1999...mostly stable..i do cheat too.Bad me.
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Saturday 6/21
Can't remember exact times during the day: Pretzels, french bread, and watery gatorade.
Dinner 6:30pm
Appeasing my sister, I ate dinner at her house. Nothing we ate was IBS safe whatsoever. Steak, mashed potatoes (with 2 % Milk), whole kernel corn, caffeine free pepsi.
Within 15 minutes after eating, I spent about 10 minutes in her bathroom. Gagging, D with lots of blood, bent over in pain, nausea, and complete exhaustion. After that attack, I collapsed in her chair for a good 1/2 hour, before driving the 45 mins home.
Sunday 6/22
Nibbled on pretzels and sipped water all day. Still feeling nausea from day before. Took a couple of naps.
Monday 6/23
Called in sick to work. Morning started off with headache and abdominal pain. Nibbled on pretzels, water, and watery gatorade. Dinner: boiled sweet potatoes and spinach pasta, broiled shrimp in little olive oil. Water.
3 BM's: all D like, mushy, no blood
Exercise: 20 minutes Leslie Sansone pilates
Tuesday 6/24
Breakfast: instant reg oatmeal w/acacia and tsp brown sugar made with water
Snack: pretzels, ginger ale
So far: abdominal pain, depressed, headache, about 25 minutes of casual walking, exhausted
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Hmmmm.. dinner at your sis' sounds yummy...too bad it turned into a disASSter..
It sure takes alot out of ya when eating off the ibs plan huh.
I've been there and just in the past week have been feeling better. I went to town yesterday and spent 2 hours of running around doing my shopping and never felt the panic of an unscheduled bm coming on!!
anyway....have you noticed any patterns in your diet?Might take a few days to recover from dinner on Saturday though.Hope it tasted good!
I've been trying to eat the same thing everyday for breakfast and lunch and it seems to be working out. Supper is very plain and only snack on pretzels after supper and at least 2 hours before bed.
So far so good.
Good luck can't wait to see how you make out this week
Hope you feel better soon.
Oh I see you aren't drinking icetea.Is that making a difference?And how about your water?
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Dinner
1/2 Sandwich from Panera bread: smoked turkey, leaf of lettuce and tomato - plain, chips (ingred: 100% safflower oil, potatoes), lemonade
Snack later: orange jello
Overall I had some abdominal pain. Bedtime I was passing gas like crazy. It was okay though, not the painful gas pains.
I haven't been drinking the iced tea. It's hard to judge right now if that's helping or not, because I'm still on the rebound from Saturday night dinner. My blood sugar level in the mornings still seem to be high for me, 130-148.
Using up the last of my Poland Spring bottled water. I did buy 2 gallons of distilled water to start using.
Wednesday 6/25
Breakfast: instant reg oatmeal, 1/2 tsp acacia, 2 tsp brown sugar.
I'm thinking I really need the protein to keep my energy sustained. Tummy is feeling tightness this morning, uncomfortable, but not unmanageable.
Lunch: other half of turkey sandwich, water, pretzels
Dinner: tuna sandwich - albacore, 2 tsp olive oil, fresh squeezed juice of 1/2 lemon, sea salt on french bread. diet 7-up only few sips.
Exercise: 20 minutes yoga for IBS
Tonight I'm more gassy than I was during the day. Some bloating. Finished reading "Intensity" by Dean Koontz, last night, so I'm looking for a new book to read.
oh yeah, not that I'm doing a lot of exercising, what little I've done makes my legs restless at night, so I'm constantly tossing and turning in bed. Sometimes I can get comfortable to fall back to sleep when I put heating pad on, not always though.
Edited by Valerie A. (06/25/08 04:47 PM)
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I changed my mind on exercise. I did 24 minutes Leslie Sansone Yoga.
I thought yoga was suppose to be relaxing.. I'm sweating like crazy.. lol  My hips feel really good though.
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Thursday 6/26
Breakfast: oatmeal, acacia (1/2 tsp), brown sugar
Snack: pretzels
Lunch: grilled boneless/skinless chicken breast on french bread, plain (boy was this dry), gingerale (10 oz. sipped on rest of day).
Dinner: eggplant parm sub (with red sauce and cheese), diet 7up.
Notes for today:
Bloated and gassy after dinner, feels like I need BM but can't go.. my guess I'll get D before bedtime.. It's not bad, just annoyance.
Went to my first endocrine doctor appointment today. I really liked this guy. He was more thorough than my general doc. It's official, I have diabetes type 2. My gp kept giving me conflicting answers: yes you have it/no don't worry about it, just lose weight. Game plan is to prevent becoming insulin dependent. Being officially diagnosed with diabetes is hard for me because my mom was diabetic and died in 2002 from heart attack. Not that I think it's a death sentence, it's more of a constant reminder of the struggles my mom endured and how much I miss her every single day. I have to make appointment with dietician for next week. I'm going to take Heather's book and information with me. I made sure this doctor was well aware of my struggles with IBS/IBD.
Sorry for such a long post today. My mind is spinning like a whirlwind tonight. Thanks for listening.
Peace.
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Hey sorry to hear about your mom.I don't know what I'd do without mine.
Hope your appointment goes well.
How are you feeling in general?
Are you having pretty good days or still bad everyday?
So whats the plan for diet? Diabetes and IBS hard to combine?
How much are you looking to lose as far as weight?
Sorry for all the questions 
Hope you have a good day tomorrow!
As Dori likes to say "Just keep swimming!"(yes I watch WAY too many kids shows!)
See ya!!! 
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Thank you dragonfly.
I've been feeling pretty good lately. Some good days inbetween the bad. I may have to stay away from plain pasta, white potatoes, rice, etc.. the real starchy stuff. Which is what I've been eating lately and it's been agreeing with me better. I'm very interested to see what the dietician will recommend when I go see her next week. In the meantime, I'm going to keep eating Heather's way because that is what works for my tummy. As for pounds to lose, I am about 100 pounds over the recommended weight for my height and build. I want to feel good and healthy, get down to size 12/13. Whatever pounds that registers at, I'll take it! Initially though I think it will be all about losing 5 to 10 pounds a month. I'm guessing it will equal out to be 70-80 pounds.
Don't think I've ever watched a full episode of Dori... She looks really cute though. I'll swim my heart out..!
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It can be real hard to lose weight huh.
I haven't had a huge problem with my weight(total denial) 
After my last baby I was about 40 pounds more than I would like.I don't know what you are supposed to weigh but thats what I'd be happy to lose.Unfortunately it took five years and a bout of gallbladder attacks to actually help me lose 25 pounds.I didn't eat anything hardly for two months and actually nothing for one week while in the hospital.It's nice to see my pants looser and now I need to go shopping(yuck!) 
But it's been the push to help me lose more.
I have found that I am loosing more weight with this diet.Mostly because I don't eat chips pop, icecream, chocolate, french fries etc.Ya all the good stuff!
The one thing I really noticed working was to cut out all snacks after supper. We would sit and watch tv and eat a bag of chips, drink a couple glasses of pop,maybe some chocolate.
This has helped me drop a few more pounds and made me feel better all around.(as much as I hate it!!)I do sneak in the odd handful of chips during the day or a half glass of pop once a week.
Don't focus on the pounds though.Just see how your pants fit and if your clothes are getting looser.Otherwise you will drive yourself crazy!!
Exercise is totally OUT of my picture.Forget it!But if you do start exercising or already do, take it slow. Up your minutes say every week.
When I was trying to lose weight with my first I started doing crunches and I could only do FIVE! without killing myself.But by the end of two weeks of doing five I could add it to ten and I noticed a differance just in the two weeks.(then I found out I was preggo so I quit!Haven't been back since.
My hubby and I had a contest about two months ago to see who could do the most crunches (he is 125 pounds soaking wet!)Well I won but boy did I pay for that!A week of sore tummy!!!So don't push it too far!
Good luck hope you win!
I'm cheering ya on sister!!!!
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Thanks for being so open about your life. Finally, I hope I've found someone that may help me too...IBS since 12, (now a "young":-) 58)... reprieve for about 10 years, then IBS + generalized anxiety +PTSD...I've always worked, even through all this, but the last few years have been really bad. Like everyone else it's diarrhea and cramps all one day, then constipation the next day - I think the "c" is the worst... Evidently I have hemorrhoids and even though I know that's most probably what causes it, when I have blood with a BM, it scares me. I had an endoscopy & colonoscopy about 4 yrs ago: IBS, diverticulosis, gastritis, GERD, esophogitis...polyps that dissolved upon touch, so I'm blessed. BUT... all this to say, that when you mentioned "blood", I didn't feel so alone in this world - thank you... Does this happen often with you? I don't know what to eat anymore - when I follow Heather's diet, it's wonderful for the "D", but then it sometimes causes the "C" and then here comes the "H" and blood!:-) My dr. mentioned taking miralax, but don't want to take anything else unless I absolutely have to. Any advice would be most welcomed... And, you are right - God and will make a way! (And, I've met Don Moen:-) - many years ago... Looking forward to hearing from anyone who can tell me this is not abnormal. Thanks!
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Hi GaGa!
I've been trying to pay attention to when I have lots of blood in my BM and when it's a tiny bit. Sometimes it seems like I have excessive blood after I've eaten a big meal, stuffed myself. Then again last weekend I ate a small piece of steak, approx 1 cup of mashed potatoes, and 1/2 cup whole kernel corn. And forget it, 15 minutes later I'm in bathroom doubled-over in pain, D pretty bad with blood, nausea, sweating, the whole nine-yards...So a "regular" portioned meal still gave me bloody BM.
Usually if I'm constipated, I can feel the tearing of my "H" and know the blood is from that.
I am trying to find a good balance in Heather's EFI diet and acacia so I'll remain more consistent with BMs.
You are certainly not alone here. The Miralax is a laxative, so I'm not sure why your dr would recommend that if you're struggling with D. Have you tried the acacia? I truly think it's helping me. I'm not up to the full dosage yet. Do you keep a food journal?
Be good to yourself..
--Val
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Hi, Valerie -
Thanks for the response. You're sooooo right about meals and portion sizes. My therapist for the CFIDS/Fibro. told me I need to balance my strength/energy, but "no" - when I feel good, I go until I hit a brick wall! Same true with IBS... when I feel good and haven't eaten, I try to eat it all at one time and then have "C" for a couple of days, then it turns into "D". All the breads and pasta- which I love seem to cause "C"... Throw a good dose of anxiety and the "what ifs" into it and I'm a mess - except for trusting God to make me well.. It's so hard when people just don't understand.
Thanks, again....
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HI, I love pretzels. Great for snacking and the safe way. I gave up all dairy, corn, salads,red meats, eggs. Am using soy and rice milk, soy cheese and soy ice creams. Lots of rice. Also had to give up cafeine. Use herbal teas. This seems to be working along with taking fibercon and tummy powder. I am able to go out now and shop, attend church, etc. When I go off the diet i am back to D constantly.
Sometimes we just have to give up all good stuff to feel good. Hang in there.
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Today
I had another colonoscopy done today. They weren't able to get all the way through because I kept waking up in pain. Nurse said they couldn't give me anymore sedation.
Visually things looked normal. No inflammation present. I follow up with doctor in about 2 weeks. By then, the pathology reports should be back from biopsies.
So, I will continue to follow Heather's EFI diet and do more research.
Thank you all for being here.
God Bless..
--Val
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I'm so sorry you had such a bad experience. I can't believe they did not sedate you properly. You are far braver than me... I'm believing all those biopsies will be benign too!
Praying for a good night and a better day tomorrow....Hugs!
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