*snap back to reality*
#254617 - 03/26/06 07:34 PM
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Ohhh, I forgot for a few months that I have this stupid disorder. I have been C, but less than C for wuite some time, and I've found it very bearable. i've been C, then get really C if I drink a coffee or have too many teas, but I'm not in a lot of pain with it.
Well today i had a bad D attack. I'd had C the day before yesterday and took a gentlax and it was gentle and I felt fine.
So what stupid thing did I do? loaded up on dairy!!After all, I haven't had an attack since hmm, January, and not a bad one since this fall!
Oh, whoops. I had a bad one today. I'm still pretty sore. Ok, back on the diet. What made me think I was a superhero???*sigh*
Ps- I've had brown bread a few times too this week, think it's that??? Maybe I should get tested for gluten intolerance after all. Dairy hasn't bothered me in ages!! 
Or is my IBSies back for good?
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sorry, don't you hate it when reality bites you in the well... you know. It is so much fun to pretend to be "normal" sometimes isn't it?
I had a bad D attack tonight myself. No need to guess what caused it, I couldn't help drinking down a can of ginger ale when I got home from work. My throat was dry and it felt so good. Guess all it took was my iriitable buddy to jump back out at me, no more pop for me!
Just look at the positive, you have gone since January without an attack, amazing! You will get back on track soon enough!
Good Luck,
Bethany
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I even told DH I seriously thought I had gone into remission with this crap. Well, I guess I need to go back to the diet, or at least really avoid my triggers. i have had pop, and dairy and wheat, and salads. I guess my intestines had a li'l Mutiny on the Shanny. 
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I'm back in reality clutching my tummy with you Shannon!
I have been stable for about a year but every now and then I take stupid risks that I know will hurt and they do.
I went out on Friday night and had wine and a dessert with dairy. I went out Saturday night and did the same. I used to get away with a dairy type dessert after a big meal but recently not at all. It started when I was drinking a lot of regular tea with milk, I felt a bit sick with the milky taste but "needed" the tea as I had a sore throat and was on the road with work, places that we were given readymade tea and coffee and no opportunity to ask for hot water etc.
I am mad with myself that I am now in a much worse position than I was. I went off chocolate type things including cookies etc for about two weeks, then had icecream that my friend brought on Tuesday that was amazing but really really sore and stinky the next day. Then followed that with a v safe Wed & Thurs but blew it Friday.
I don't want to feel like I do today, I am back to being mega safe for a while. I need to get properly stable and stop taking stupid risks. Let's do this together.
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Yep, I've been risky for a few weeks now. i can really push it as long as I keep to the safe carbs, but I guess brown bread is what threw me over. But really, the bagel and cream cheese, the spinach dip and the potato fully loaded, and the casesar salad yesterday....what kind of superhero did I think I was?
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Michelle, I read the books of Corinthians yesterday for the first time. I think they're my favorites. Any othr books you can suggest that are uplifting(esp the 1 corinthians 13 type), rather than disheartening??
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Food Journal?
#254699 - 03/27/06 09:08 AM
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Don't be so hard on yourself, Shannon. I've been stable for over a year now, but I still have surprise attacks on occasion. You know what I think? I think it's just the body's way of waking me up to reality, reminding me I still have IBS.
If I can tolerate a salad, I have a BIGGGGGG salad, or maybe two helpings. Then, the next morning, BAM! I have to run to the bathroom, where I explode.
Do you keep a food journal? When I began Heather's program a hundred years ago, I started a food journal. I kept it up religiously, and now I'm just in the habit of doing it every day, automatically, only now it's converted into a Weight Watcher Diary. Anyway, I like being able to look back at the day before my "explosion" to see what culprit I can find. Sometimes I find it, other times I don't. That tells me it's not a particular item, but a culmination of lotsa things. For example, a tiny bit of dead cow carcass, a tiny bit of Ranch dressing on my tiny bit of salad, together with a tiny bit of coffee, and, oh yes, a tiny bit of HFCS in the tiny bit of Cool Whip in my "Snicker Style Dessert Bars" that I'm addicted to (see Recipe Board).
I just think it's a wake-up call for you, that's all. With me, I just cut back on all the triggers for a day, then I'm good to go again.
Oh! One more thing that I noticed -- it's sometimes not at all what I eat in the way of food, but a new medication. Also, I discovered it was the calcium supplements I'd been taking for over 25 years; suddenly my body didn't like it any more and I had to cut the dosage back by half. Check your meds. Once again, the food journal is the trick here.
Hope you're feeling better this morning.
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I suggest reading a few chapters every day (or however often you're able) for like a month... the whole passage, again and again... rather than the "a few verses a day" thing. That way you ingest the full meaning of the passage and each time you read it new things will come to mean something to you, personally. The first time I did this was with the book of Phillipians, the first time I read it through it was kind of dull and by the end of the month I had it marked to death, it was like I really understood it and it spoke to me.
I guess that's more than you asked for but that is a passion of mine, for sure. 
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Sympathy hugs to you.
I've just finished a dinner of plain boiled rice and chicken. I had rice and carrots for lunch, some dry crackers and very plain cookies at work for sugar.
Very very very very safe. I am going out for dinner tomorrow with a friend, and then Thursday and Friday with work so I need to sort this out or I will be staring at the food, and I especially don't want to waste the nice dinners that work is paying for!!!
I have yummy safe banana bread in the oven, breakfast sorted, as breakfast foods make me nauseous when I have a crampy tummy. Early to bed for me with a hot water bottle I think!
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If you haven't been tested to make sure it isn't celiac (that is what you're refering to right?), why not go for it? Then you won't wonder when stuff like this happens 
I hope you feel better soon. And you are a superhero...just not when it comes to your tummy 
Love you *hugs*
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How did you keep a food journal? Times, amounts, feeling? I never had any luck with those. I could eat the same thing one week and have tons of pain, and the next week it would be okay. 
Have you tried calcium citrate? I heard that citrate may be easier to tolerate. I have to start on calcium...and I'm really dreading it...especially since I'm already a chronic C.
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i haven't actually had D, just the annoying 2 foot long strings, if you KWIM. TMI!!
Anyhow, I think I'll go buy some plain rice, we don't have any. I had my staple smoothie this AM, as when I'm IBSy it's the only thing my tummy cn tolerate for breakfast. Ugh, all other things make me nauseated too.
Hang in there sinead!! We'll make it together!
*your Irish Lullaby friend-toooooo ra loooooooo*
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Anyhow, yes, it's on my fabulous new doctor's to-do list of alien abductions!(aka, probing) I am to be tested, but I doubt it's celiac, more just a low level gluten intolerance, or just maybe a wheat allergy?? I don't know. I'm supposedly going to be booked for allergy testing as well, and I have a whole list of foods and alcohol(whimper, not that I was ever a drunk, but whimper)that I'm now likely allergic to.
Will keep you on the up-and up.
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how to do a food journal without getting OCD about it? I seriously did a food journal when I tried Weight Watchers back in the day(photocopied a Points book) and I would like, interrupt my students so I could sit down and write that I had three sips of h2o!!
I need something where it's like...duh for me, you know? I know what I need....a personal chef who only cooks IBS safe foods and only diet food!! I've gained like 10 lbs this winter....:`O( and I'm SOOOOO sick of it that I really want to change, but I'm so prone to obsessing...
Ahhhhhh!!!! Heeeelllp me, someone get me outta me!
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I used to record all my foods/cals when I was anorexic....and I don't want to get into that trouble again. I have a very obsessive personality...and I am afraid to do the diary. 
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I know, nothing like having C and then getting MORE c on top of that C. Maybe we have to douse ourselves with water. I find if I stay away from my "stoner drug" caffeine other than in Chai tea, it makes a beeeeeeeg difference in the C, as in I only get plugged up one day a week. Of ocurse, Ihave one coffee, and it starts this cycle of C, then a laxative, then normal BMs then D.
Hmm, maybe I shouldn't drink coffee!!
Another thing "old age" is giving me, I swell up like a freaking blowfish around the ankles when i eat salty food. Gross or what?
*life is swell, lol!*
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I know you found that to be very helful in the past...along with your probiotic.
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Might ahve something to do with the calcium and Vitamin D I'm on now, though too. Plus, it's stress. I'm super worried about getting a teaching job in the fall, because I'm so ready for one and there's no word on anything yet. They all love me but it's a matter of budgeting. I just need a bit of extra cash for a few months and then I'll be so ouit of debt so fast...but i need it now, if I ever want to have another child-we live in a 2 bdr condo with an unfinished basement, and because DH is on a business contract and we're paying off his restaurant, HE won't have any raises in the next 4 years, which is sort of when we want to be DONE having kids. Sugh. Why can't life come in tidy littl packages. Gee, today I sound like a girl with SAD. Aww.
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I wish neither of us were in this mess. So, calcium stops you up too? How much are you taking?
I have to take it because I have osteoporosis already!  But how can I intentionally put something into my body that increases C? I just can't make myself do it. I know magnesium is suppose to counteract the Calcium...but I already take Mag by itself and it isn't enough.
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...teaching position for Shannon- Fall 2006!
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LOL I LOVE your sense of humor! 
I'm glad you're getting tested and that you plan to keep us posted...sounds terrific! 
Hope they find everything is perfectly right with it (like it already is) *hugs*
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Sarala
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I don't have the guts to be anorexic. Silly, I know. I tried sooooo hard to be biulimic, but I cannot make myself throw up, physically...I can stick a chopstick down to my flippin' intestines and nothing. gag, that's it. Gag.
And I guess that's God's protection.
But I do obsess in a big way. I obsess over whatever I can, yuck. I hate it.
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I said NM silly.
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I started the Calcium about a month ago and really haven't noticed a difference. I know iron is famous for that, but I realy haven't seen a dif, maybe slightle more C....but that's my own fault because i drink a total of one glass of water a day. that's all I can gag down. i was doing awesome last summer and have to get back into it.
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I don't read for months on end and then i sit down and read the whole Old testament in one sitting. LOL! No wonder it just sounds like thees and thous and God saids...lol!!
Ephesians is very good as well. I really have never read the bible for meaning before, it's about darn time, and I feel really good inside for doing it. maybe, just maybe, i'm ready to do this whole hearted!!
*I've got the Joy joy joy Joy down in my heart*
WHERE??
*Down in my heart!*
etc....
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LOL Shannon, I know EXACTLY what you mean by the two foot strips!! I'm gone C and crampy but then will get a crazy urge and have to run to the loo and empty out! (that happened when I was meeting a friend for lunch today, I ate in my work canteen first so that I could eat safe)
Two loaves of banana bread with my name on them. Might chance an apricot soy yogurt after some of the banana bread in the morning. Off to bed now, cramps subsiding since I ate dinner but still tender. Foregoing the hot water bottle in favour of husbandly body heat, I hope I make the right choice
Will check in tomorrow to see how you are doing too.
WE CAN BEAT THIS SILLINESS! (isn't it nice to have a partner in selfinflicted, overconfident pain!!)
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#254826 - 03/27/06 04:02 PM
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Bevvy
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Not only do I keep a food journal, but I have it saved on floppy discs AND printed out in a bound binder! Perfect as a coffee table book, wouldn'tchasay?
But wait, there's more! I also keep a workout diary in which I record each day I exercise, the duration of the exercise, and its intensity. I could tell you what I did at any given day, and the TIME I did it, and how I felt afterwards!
Yep, it's called OCD.
I shouldn't tell my secrets like this, but hubby and I had our biggest fights over the dishwasher magnets that say "STOP! Clean Dishes! Do Not Open!" and "GO AHEAD; Dirty Dishes Inside. Open at Will." He keeps forgetting to switch them when he does the dishes, and it burns my butt! 
Don't tell anyone.
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I have been feeling so well lately ... I was going to try some dairy, but now I will wait. Thanks for your post. Hope you feel better soon!!
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Re: OCD
#254839 - 03/27/06 06:24 PM
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I wonder if there is a connection betwee OCD and IBS. Maybe not...I guess anyone can get either and there will be some overlap.
Sorry to hear you are plagued with the OCD demon too, Bevvy. It stinks, don't it!
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I knew another girl who just could not make herself throw up. Thank God that it didn't work for you. You were given a great gift...the inability to make yourself vomit. Boy, that sounds wierd if you didn't read the posts leading up to this one. Both Anorexia and bulimia are horrible, horrible, horrible.
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But sometimes I get so annoyed because I have the self-body loathing(from about age ten) and feel so helpless as to how to fix it. At least I now have a doc who really is kicking me in the butt to work on the asthma so that i can work out more. Sigh, what a cycle.
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you're no freaking help, LOL!!!
Yes, I have seen those dishwashers in teacher's staffrooms, don't worry, you're not the only one.
I have a Dh who is so irritatingly good at catching every detail aorund the house, he thinks I'm mentally challenged cause I can never fit allllll the groceries in the fridge. He goes in, messes around a bit and there's room for a Christmas turkey!
Whatevverrrrrr....lol
(anyhow, that's what I do with my banking. i have online banking that I check every day, and I have a printable and MS word budget I refer to almost every day. it does not help me spend less.
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I haven't been diagnosed with OCD but just have obsessive thoughts sometimes. I contribute mine to too much free time. i have a VERY overactive mind, and when I'm not working 8.5 days a week I get bored. I know, weird.
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Hugs....yes, we are cocky and silly and payin for it.
I'm finally all done aching. bleah.
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