Thanks to those who answered questions for me. I'm new and grateful to have a board like this to post on, yet somehow it still seems hard to write about this gross illness (like who wants to hear about my bowels!). I think I am getting desperate, as someone else posted earlier. My life has been difficult with constant IBS-D for so many years and forcing myself to function at school and jobs. Then it got better due to an anti-anxiety pill, though I still had it occasionally if I got very stressed. I knew there were certain foods/drinks that bothered me, such as coffee or spicey foods, yet I never felt food was the biggie here. Then I began having something I never had before: Constipation. For the past year it has been a battle of a week of C and then an attack of D. During that week, I felt like every minute I had to go to the bathroom - as if I were about to explode - yet it didn't happen until a week or so most of the time. It has been extra hard to function at all, even going out to a store, let alone trying to work. I've been off for a month now and trying to get back some form of healing. Recently I found this website and decided I wanted to give the diet and ideas a try. I've spent 5 days now on the bland diet you're supposed to go on, and only added a couple of items in the past 2 days. The problem is that nothing has happened - I still am in a C state and feel like a D attack is imminent at any second. If only I could break this cycle and have some normalcy. I was taking Metamucil for the year before this, which did not help at all, and now am taking Benefiber, but that's not working either. I tried enemas and Glycolax, but that was a disaster and caused me months of problems. If anyone has been through anything like this, please tell me what you would suggest. I can't get any further with the GI Specialist. I guess I'm walking a fine line. Any further help is very much appreciated.
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