Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Anyone else have this weird AND very frustrating problem?

Hi Judithg, Sher and Belinda,
Txs so much for sharing your personal experiences, suggestions and support. At Mags' suggestion I went to the Hypno board to ask Shawn about the tapes so this thread has moved over there now. I'm copying my first reply here and then plz come join us over there, the more the merrier......even if were not dealing w/ a merry issue here! I've always liked the saying: "share a misery w/ someone and the misery has been cut in half". Hope to see the 3 of you over there and txs again for your support and ideas.

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Hi Evie and Shawn,
(I'm old fashioned so have to write lady's name first even tho your reply was first Shawn. )

Txs for all the suggestions and links, Shawn. I'm sure I'll learn alot from doing some research via the links.

As far as your ideas Evie, I stopped using ANY caffeine about a year ago and for the past several years I haven't let myself eat ANYTHING sweet, and esp no chocolate, after 5PM. I initiated these changes so that I would know for sure that those 3 factors weren't contibuting to my sleep problem. VERY boring but it has helped my peace of mind to know that I'm not doing anything "wrong" dietary -wise.

As far as anxiety, I don't think that's the problem either. I have dimmers on the lights in all the rooms in my home and I turn them down about an hour before I want to go to sleep and then I meditate or read very peacefully for the last 30 mins before going to sleep.

Moreso, on the nights when I toss and turn due to my IBS symptoms making me uncomfortable I'll STILL wake up early, but b/c I've slept so poorly I won't have a BM at all. These are what I call my "double bummer days"- tired AND constipated- but fortunately they've decreased alot since being on H's diet b/c my IBS discomfort and gas sxs have decreased tremendously.

At this point I think that I need to get more exercise, so I'm going to start weight lifting again. I'm very lean and have alot of energy both mentally and physically so I think that I need to tire out my body more during the day than I'm currently doing in order to get my mind to be tireder too!

However, I am curious about your use of trazadone. Do you have C-IBS? I was told by an MD [I trust what they tell me less and less, so will trust your input about this much more] that it would make my C worse. Has this been your experience?

Finally, I'm going to get the tapes b/c even the little I've had the time to read over past few days about hypnoRx for IBS has convinced me to try them. It just makes alot of sense to me that my unconscious mind has become hyper-aware of my GI tract over the years. I read somewhere that my mind could ultimately have maladapted to believing that having C-IBS symptoms and being a "poor" sleeper is my "normal" state. What a weird thing for it to want to do.......it obviouslyhasn't been listening to my conscious mind! LOL

My intuition, which is very good usually.....--I sure hope it's on the money, literally and figuratively

on this one--is telling me that I need to reprogram my unconscious. Sounds kind of spooky but I'm ready to give it a whirl, since so many seemed to have been helped so much by these tapes. Mind over body, here I come!

Last thought. Do either of you think/feel that the tapes actually reprogrammed your unconscious mind? I suspect your answers will be "yes", b/c I believe that's their purpose. However, what I'm really asking, and am curious to know, is HOW you each experienced this reprogramming, in terms of what you felt was changing in your bodies/minds as you each went thru the 100 days of the tape program.

Thanks so much for ALL your help and support. I have high hopes for the tapes!

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Many years of C-IBS and pain too for past 2 years-

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