Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Starving! ..........replying to you Katgirl.......about acupuncture

Thanks for your post back. I want to reply to some of the things you said more fully soon -- i am a bit rushed just now -- but i wanted to tell you that my daughter has gotten alot of help from doing acupuncture. In fact, we thought it was the cure for what was wrong with her for a long time. But she kept having "setbacks" and so we decided it wasn't the whole picture. But when she originally got sick, 8 months ago -- acupuncture was the only thing that got her back on track and helped her to function normally. It also has been really good for helping to calm her anxieties. She has a tendency to sort of "freeze up" -- sometimes it will be her digestion and sometimes her bowels. The acupuncture seems to always sort of "get her going". She has been getting it almost weekly for about 7 months. We found a person near her college and that has been helping her alot -- but the addition of Heather's diet and the soluble fiber supplement has so far kept her from having setbacks which were starting to get quite frequent suddenly about a month ago (even with acupuncture) -- mostly it was very bad C.

Also - i wanted to tell you that i think a laxative as a very temporary measure is ok, and important to get that stuff out! -- my daughter was using an herbal laxative tea -- but she could tell it sort of wrenched her insides -- and of course you can get dependent on them to go at all, so she tried not to use it much. She has been able to get off of the laxative tea now because of the fiber supplements....so i hope they will work as well for you. If you still are having a post (mail) strike, maybe you could pick up some fiber supplements at the pharmacy, and get started right away. Its ok to mix and match different brands and forms (caps and powder) but just observe how you react to each kind. I don't know what is available there, but here in the U.S., you can get fiber supplements at a pharmacy that carries over the counter medications.

I think my daughter might really like to email with you and the other college student who offered -- i will talk with her about it when she is home for a few days at Thanksgiving. She is so busy right now, and we have to communicate alot about her health -- i haven't mentioned it yet. I want to show her how to use the message board and stuff (she is a little computer retarded - like me -- but i just have to show it to her)... But -- it has been really hard for her to not have any friends who really understand what is going on with her and i know she feels like she is in hiding sort of. So I think it would be great to share that with someone else. I'll let you know about that soon. Good luck and i will write you more soon.

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