I'm feeling very discouraged. I started Heather's diet this summer, and I had one great month. I've been doing the acacia, sticking to the diet as best I can (I'd say I'm 90% there not 100%), drinking lots of herbal tea (Stomach Ease and Lemon-Ginger). I also started the IBS hypnosis CDs. I exercise when I can (I love to exercise, but it's very hard with my current schedule, which is rather crazy). I also went to the GI, and tried one prescription drug (which didn't work) and am now trying another. But I haven't had a day of relief since that good single month. It seems that it doesn't matter what I do I have symptoms (I'm IBS-A). I feel really rundown by the constant nature of this, and the fact that I can't do more than I'm currently doing, i.e. I'd love to do yoga, but the way my life is (job and parenthood, etc, etc.) I truly can't do more than I'm doing. I've had IBS for 20 years, and I think trying (finally) to really address it in everyway I can and then finding it doesn't seem to matter has really made me feel low. Also ... OK ... it's the long gripey post. I feel like I've always had huge body image issues connected with the IBS, since I feel enormously fat, even though I know I'm well within (and within the low end) of the appropriate weight for my height.
I am grateful for the website, I must say, despite my griping. I can't say how comforting it is to find others are going through what I'm going through. I've always found this an enormously hard problem to TALK about.
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