Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | valium and bowel spasms/gas pains

Hi,
I have a special needs daughter who has Rett syndrome who I believe deals with IBS-C. I have been following the diet on here for her and it is helpful. However she is dependent on digital stimulation and fleets enemas in order to have a BM. Often during the day she will abruptly start screaming in pain ( she is nonverbal) and once I give her an enema she is better even if it is just a little bit of gas that comes out. This can occur 3x/day. THe outbursts are very extreme and then after the enema she is like a new person. We've had extensive GI workups and have tried many things to help but really to no avail. I still wonder in the back of my mind could she be having intermittent sigmoid volvulus because she does have a redundant colon or some protoglia fugax. We just saw a doctor who mentioned possibly trying a small dose of valium (0.5mg) to see if would help in the possiblity she is having bowel spasms. She has been on prozac 12mg for past couple years (she is 20) Is valium at this dose something that could help with the pain of gas and bowel spasms or would it just make her sleepy which we don't want to do because we have tried xanax in the past and all it did even at a very low dose was make her fall asleep for an hour and she would wake up groggy but the cycle of the sudden outburst relieved with an enema would just start all over again. Any advice would be so helpful. We are desperate to find her relief. When she is not in pain she is so happy.
Thank you,
TeresaLouise

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