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Hello,

I'm responding to Sharon's request to hear from "lurkers."

Before I found Heather, I used to think I had somehow caused myself to be sick - like maybe from the diet pills I had taken in college for example. I'm still not convinced there isn't some external factor involved but it seems the damage has been done.

My sister and my mother both have GI issues, but they are different from mine. Mother has diverticul**is (can't remember which). Sister is trying all the quack "remedies" out there (sorry if I offend, I've just never had much faith in the cure-of-the-month-club alternative healers) without any concrete, measurable results. We do both wonder if the years we spent taking antibiotics as children haven't contributed to these long-term ailments. I've certainly suffered from them in the short term (yeast infections, candida or similar).

I'm interested to know if any of you have ever had the same nagging feeling that you have somehow brought this upon yourself and if you would only stop (or start) doing something, one magical thing, that all your problems would go away. I sometimes wish I were more like my car: Replace the plugs and wires and it stops misfiring. How simple it would be.

sperry_twiggins

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