Reged: 07/10/04
Posts: 1176
Loc: Manhattan, New York
Hey Augie...so sorry to hear of your suffering...I am very familiar with it. I personally think that you are taking tooo many things at once. I mean, I don't know how you began taking all these things (ie was it gradual introduction or in a wild haste to get better did you just start taking all of them without tracking their individual impact on your IBS with a food and symptom diary for example?). Here's what I would do: start from scratch:....eliminate - colace, zelnorm, triphala, SFS and equalactin. I would start taking a probiotic twice a day. I would make sure I was drinking my 2 litres of water a day and lots of herbal teas between meals. You are not eating nearly enough vegetables to ease your consipation. I know you are gluten free so its not so easy for you :
Before starting my day I would have two cups of peppermint tea on an empty tummy and give it time to go down before eating breakfast. I would start my day with a rice pudding made from mainly brown rice with rice milk if you can't tolerate soy and a chopped up raw apple WITHOUT the skin. Can you tolerate oatmeal? its fantastic... I would make a HUGE pot of vegie soup with squash, pumpkin, carrots etc inside - PACK it with safe vegies and eat it a million times a day!! I would eat a baked potato, and add a little bit of olive oil to it...you need a bit of fat for help with C. I would bake a rice bread from brown rice flour or a mixture of white and brown and eat that with nut butters. Mangos are fantastic too. If you can tolerate it, saute some asparagus, peas, green beans, carrots and garlic in sesame oil...put it over brown rice and there you go! Avoid white stuff (bread and rice) or only eat minimal amounts, till you get those logs out! :-) Good luck!! Oh and remember you MUST exercise and keep moving...
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