*snap back to reality*
#254617 - 03/26/06 07:34 PM
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_Willow
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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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Microscopic Colitis, IBS-A, GERD, Hiatal Hernia
Bethany, Ontario, Canada
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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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Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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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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Bevvy
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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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Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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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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