Some days I can eat practically anything....and other days are horrible.....
#315571 - 09/26/07 11:09 AM
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OK...I know this issue has been addressed before, but I'm so frustrated. Some days I can eat practically anything I want and be fine for a few days and other days everything triggers my IBS-D. I also alternate now betwee IBS-C and IBS-D...ever since my hysterectomy a year ago. I just read an article about how vitamin supplements can be triggers....well, I've been taking supplements because I need calcium, etc. since my hysterectomy. I've decided not to do hormone replacement because I feel better without it. I'm just getting frustrated again with this whole IBS thing....needed to vent.
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Right there with you. I get so frustrated that I'm still in pain. Everything else is great... daily bms, no nausea, can eat....just in pain. Just want to scream WHY!!!!! at the top of my lungs.
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Susan
IBS-A, Gas, Pain, Reflux
"The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows."
Emerson, August 31, 1837
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Same here...sometimes I just want to scream! Why can't I just be normal! Why can't I have more good days than rough days. Why do I feel that on my rough days I have to act as if nothing is wrong so that I don't seem like I'm complaining all the time. I feel like I'm constantly saying "my stomach is upset again."
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Oh I hear you!! My problem is I eat something today and tomorrow I can't eat the same thing without an attack! GRRR!!! I'm flip-flopping between good days and bad. Tonight, it's edging on being a bad night, of course, because I have plans! My dinner sits beside me, 1/4 eaten - rice noodles with sweet and sour chicken pieces (homemade, sauteed chicken, homemade sauce, all safe ingredients!) SOOO Frustrating!! I had it for dinner Sunday and I was fine!
Let's all meet on the top of a building somewhere and scream how sick of being sick we are!!!
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Cassandra
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up! 
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Ok...or at the top of a mountain...since this experience, for me, is like climbing a mountain...how about if we all imagine ourselves tomorrow at 1:00 at the top of a beautiful mountain or building all together screaming at the top of our lungs how frustrated we are and sick of being sick and then joining in one of the biggest group hugs ever!!! Sound like a plan? Who's in?? Anybody?
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I'm there with you. 1:00 today, top of Pike's peak?
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Susan
IBS-A, Gas, Pain, Reflux
"The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows."
Emerson, August 31, 1837
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I'm there, too....I've been wanting to go to the top of Pike's Peak ever since my hubby and I went to a Log Home show in Colorado Springs and visited Garden of the Gods a few years ago. We didn't take the time to drive up the peak....See you there today at 1:00!!! {{{HUGS}}}
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I feel the same way but then I try to remind myself that I could have much worse disorders/diseases. But you are entitled to your feelings just don't get too self-absorved.
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I hear you over the weekend I felt GREAT I didn't need any beano no med. Well i am paying for it I have been sick all week had a attack on tuesday night and felt sick to my stomach off and on all day today. I just want to be normal!! Thats all. I'll be screaming with you all and hugs to everyone!!
emmasmom
ibs-c
gas gas gas
lactose interolant
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I also understand your frustration. Since the hypnotherapy I do tend to have more good days than bad but how it works for me, is I'll be fine for say.. A month. Eatting anything and everything and I'll be ok then all of a sudden I'll eat something that I have been eatting for the last month be in tons of pain and have to back off any sort of trigger and work it back into my diet carefully...
I have also been taking a vitimin supplement and sometimes I find it makes me feel not nessicarly like i'm having an attack but just not as well as I could be. And I have been drinking alot of V8 to try and at least get some vegetables into my diet and again, for something that is suppose to make me better, I don't react well sometimes..
For example, I didn't get a full attack but I was not feeling all that great last night and here is what I ate, Some roasted skinless chicken breast, white rice (with salt and just a touch of pepper) a couple pieces of bread (nothing on it) and a V8 shot.. So I understand...
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Oh, I know that feeling well.
I was stable and cheating every now and then and doing fine. Now I am cheating all the time, unstable and feeling terrible. I need inspiration to get back on Heather's diet and start feeling good again. Right now I feel sick to my stomach every single day. I don't always have D but I do feel sick and I know that is all because of the things I am eating.
My biggest problem is that I get sick of being sick and not being able to eat the things that I love and I rebel and the only one who pays in the end is ME.
Maybe I can start hanging around here again and be inspired to eat right.
Here's hoping I have the will power!
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Janey
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Hi Janey! Good to "see" you again. Sorry you haven't been feeling well. I know the feeling. I just get so tired of having to constantly be careful of what I eat. I cheat and do go for a while and then pay for it. I get tired of always being the one paying for it when everyone else can eat everything with no problem. I get tired of always making sure I know where the bathroom is where ever I go. Today was a bad morning because I was stressed at work....everything I ate yesterday caught up with me today. I hate that!!! {{{hugst to you}}}
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Hi Dajara...yes, I just don't understand how we can eat even the "safe" foods and be fine and then eat the same exact "safe" foods and have an attack on another day. So frustrating! I had a hysterectomy a year ago and so I'm also dealing with sudden menopause. I tried hormone replacement, but didn't feel good, so tried no HRT and feel better off it than on, but am now paying for it with lots of hot flashes at night, headaches, and leg cramps. So I don't know what to do. I see my GYN/surgeon for my year checkup next Thursday and am already nervous about whether or not he'll support my decision to go without HRT. He's a great doctor, so I think he'll be supportive, it's just the anticipation of it all that makes me nervous. Ya know? Maybe he can suggest some combination of supplements or something to control the hot flashes and headaches. I'm just so frustrated! {{{hugs}}}
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this was years and years ago so i don't know if it's even still avail anymore but when my mom was going through menopause, she was taking something called *evening primrose* it was an oil capsuel type thing and she swore by it to help with the hot flushes and with the leg cramps, only thing you can do there is calcium.. (if you can handle that anyways)
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thanks Dejara! I'll give it a try. I've heard of Evening Primrose. I've also heard that about Calcium. I'll definately give it a try.
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