Re: Amy, I wanted you and Anthem to not feel TOO odd!!
07/04/05 01:09 PM
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Anthem
Reged: 10/01/04
Posts: 76
Loc: Phoenix, AZ
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I've questioned IBS and non IBS friends and family about poop too-and was stunned to know they can't feel it traveling through their guts at all times. I know when my D hits, it's agony, and so is the C. I can literally go from marbles of freaking GLASS to "eau de fesse" in a few hours. And then not go at ALL the next day.
Things change so swiftly and completely in the matter of a week...For example, this week I was C for 3 days, got soft and then water within day, and the next morning was compacted and had to force it out. Today,we have garter snakes AND marbles. It's soooo weird. Tomorrow I'm expecting water again. Yuch.
Yes, we study poop, but we have odd ones. We A's never know what the heck to expect!! 
What's your treatment strategy? Just curious.
My scenario is different, if you go through this C to D and back every few days. My pendulum swing is longer. I can be normal (with very firm stools and few symptoms besides some gas and a mild discomfort) for a couple weeks or more, then suddenly for no known reason (LIKE TODAY!) I wake up with the urge to go, and it is repeated over and over. The first is firm, then it gets looser and looser since that poo is not yet ready to go, but the contractions bring it forward.
I am so scared and upset when this happens because I feel no control. I do everything by the book.
1. I eat the soluble fiber diet. No coffee, caffeine, alcohol, read meat. I am very disciplined, except for a lapse when I ate store-made oatmeal cookies!
2. I take plenty of fiber supplements every day.
3. I take Bentyl every day.
4. I take Paxil every day.
5. I am on a spiritual path and I do my best to stay calm and forgive others.
6. I am in a solid relationship with someone who loves me a lot.
7. I've done the 100 Day Audio Hypnotherapy series once, and am doing it again.
8. I ride an exercise bike 45 minutes per day to work off any body tension. I also go to a fitness club every second day.
I do thank God I have periods of relative normal functioning, but then it just changes and I cannot figure out why.
I think I have done what most of traditional medicine says to do. Now I am going to research some other things, although this leaves a person open to con artists. I would never buy some pill advertized on the internet to CURE IBS. Oh, sure....if that was true, it would be in every drug store and on the evening news!
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