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Hi Stephie,
I really appreciate how much you are writing to me- thank you so much!
Let's see...I am taking some really amazing probiotics, very expensive ones that are supposed to work really well. I am taking Acacia and have been taking it for about a month now, but I'm not taking very much of it (1/2 tsp 1 to 2 times daily). I started taking Lexapro about a month ago for anxiety, and am taking a very low dose-5 mg... but I think I did start going to the bathroom more around the time I started taking it, maybe this is some of the cause? I take a multivitamin. What else... I eat almost all SF foods- bananas, oatmeal, chicken, toast, avocado, eggs. That's pretty much all I eat! Sometimes potatos, rice, carrots... I eat incredibly healthy, all organic. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong? I just get really scared of diseases and am totally freaked of Colitis.... It doesn't run in my family at all but I'm just sitting here hysterically crying with the fear that I have it. I have always had pain in my lower left tummy.... and I have decreased appetite and increased bowel movements... I'm really scared of this disease, although I have never had any blood in my stool or even very bad D. Anyway it's ridiculous to worry about it without getting tested... I know I should. I have a doc appointment on Tues I'll talk to her about it then.
Here's an example of what I ate yesterday:
8:00 am - oatmeal with rice protein powder
11:30 - bagel with earth balance, hard boiled egg and avo
2:30 - chicken and toast with avo
5:45 - chicken with white flour pita and butternut squash. i did have a few potato french fry type things and i did eat a tiny bit of skin...
9:00 - a bananna
2:00 am - a few pretzels

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