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Hey everyone! I've been off the boards for several weeks, so much going on in my personal life. But I've missed you all

I had surgery three years ago for a herniated disk; I was 25 at the time. Too young for that sort of thing. I thought everything was great, but now I've had two "relapses" since then where my low back hurts and stiffens and the sciatica gets so bad I can't work a full day. So I'm currently on short term disability (SO lucky for that) while I try to get better enough to go back to full time. I decided to try chiropractic; it's the only thing I haven't tried yet.

It was SO WEIRD to have a doctor examine me and say "This is what's wrong, and I can fix it." WOW! So hopefully my back problems will start to go away. After my exam, he said that the abnormalities he sees in my spine can cause symtoms like migraines, fatigue, depression, constipation, irritable bowel... say no more!! I'm sold. He said he has a few IBS patients, and was really interested in what I had to say about this site, my diet, etc. I hope he shares it with some of his patients.

So, since IBS is clearly a brain-gut disfunction, I'm surprised that I haven't heard much about using chiropractic to treat IBS. Has anyone tried it?

I've been off the pill for 9 weeks now, and still haven't ovulated (I do tests every day!). But today I started bleeding. What's up with that??? I just want to get pregnant, darn it!!

So, that's what's new with me. Thanks for reading

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Lisa, IBS-C (Vegan)
Stable since July 2007!
Mommy to Rhiannon Marie (Dec. 13, 2008)

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