Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Help IBS-D won't stop!!

Hi, I don't have the diarrhea so much anymore (I had to have two colonectomies NOT related to IBS, but they gave me what I now read on this board!), but when I get it I find that the Acacia taken several times per day plus white rice (just plain and cooked like "sticky" rice) will help within two or three days.

I also have learned what drugs hurt/help. For diarrhea or just too frequent and/or loose stools I get into more difficulty with Lomotil. But Belladonna (Donnatal I believe) helps stop everything, but it has to really be frequent, like diarrhea or you can have the "stopping" with pain of cramping and not "going." This stuff is so unpredictable. Another thing that helps to just relax the spasms/cramps is Bentyl (watch it for unsteadiness and start at 10 mg., going to 20 mg. perhaps once to three times in 24 hours). Wish where I have my anastomosis (top of rectum where sigmoid used to attach (sigmoid and descending colon is now gone)would quiet down. I think stress is worse than wrong foods or they both get it going. But I never had problems that I knew of before colon surgeries with stress hurting me but boy, after the second one OUCH! I have this very vulnerable area now and about half a colon. I would like to meet someone who has had colon surgery and IBS before and after. I feel "alone" in my fight with this "stuff."

Help!

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