Re: Aha! Found it!
07/30/05 08:42 PM
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Elfmaid
Reged: 07/29/05
Posts: 7
Loc: Vancouver, BC CANADA
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Hullo! ^_^
Looks like I'm going to quoting your quotes! *blinks and laughs*
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As a serious anticlimax, here's my response to your post:
Anticlimax? Oh heck no! I appreciate the sharing and the caring BELIEVE you me! I'm really touched that others are willing to help me here- 21 years with this stupid condition has forced me to have a sense of humour and it's great to finally meet others who 'get it'.
Please pardon the creative snippage here, the post will turn into novel format if we don't LOL.
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Well, actually only IF is problem for IBS - SF is good. I put some of my SFS in my smoothies. If an SFS is tolerable for you, would it perhaps help slow down the sugar absorption?
Well, as I mentioned to Dana, I have Prodium tablets I can try- I've used them before with pretty good results but I wasn't sure how WELL I was tolerating just THEM since I wasn't practicing the 'safer' methods of eating at the time.
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YUP! I can do regular non-diabetes desserts, I just have to watch my portion size and combine that good old protein and fibre thing Ooh, ooh - there's a recipe on the Recipe Index for black bean brownies - supposedly they're great. And to think my endocrinologist tried to put me on metformin!!!!!? I thought I was going to die... honestly- the side effect of that medication is 'abdominal discomfort'... on TOP of rampant IBS... I'm telling you, it was nearly a trip to the hospital. Yeah, I heard one of the side effects was "possible diarrhea". I assumed that translated into instant misery for IBSers.
I will happily try the brownies! A treat every now and then will discourage binge-eating and if it doesn't make my gut do the firey-celtic-knotwork-of-doom-dance so much the better!
Oh read the post I put up for Dana about the effects of metformin... I seriously thought I'd have to get IV fluids again! I HATE the Emergency Rooms, and especially getting MORE pokey holes in my arms since when I'm dehydrated it takes multiple tries to get an IV in *shudder*.
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You should have seen me at the grocery store today, reading labels and weeping- I'm just so frustrated right now. I can only imagine. The number of grocery items with stuff in them that I can't eat "just" because of IBS was shocking enough when I first started out.
exactly... and my empathies... it was awful enough when I first was put on insulin and my meal plans got limited cause of sugar content etc... adding the IBS factor - well it's not as bad as I'd feared, but my mood was really awful cause I'd had that bad attack. 8/ But then again you know how THAT goes too, bless you.
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after all I'm still alive when many doctors have said I shouldn't even be here Me, too, for different reasons - I sometimes get this mad desire to shout "So there". Quote:
YEAH! You tell em! Woop! *cheers for you*
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A joy shared is a joy doubled; a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.
Ohhhhhhhhh I've never heard that before! I LIKE it! ^_^
Thank you again for the info and *especially* the support, this has been hard enough to deal with alone, and now that I have some hope I'm certain that many of my other difficulties will be easier to deal with too! ^_^
*Happy dances*
-------------------- Part Irish and NOT thrilled about having celtic knotwork in my belly!
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