Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: help...starting to take immodium again!

I'll be happy to punish you if you insist. Maybe 50 lashes with a wet noodle for illegal eating?

Seriously, almost everyone falls off the wagon from time to time and the holidays are particularly tough. Old habits die hard. I've been doing this longer than you have and I've been drowning in a lake of Coca-Cola this weekend. (And I'm really annoyed with myself because if I was going to fall off the wagon I'd have preferred to do it with something really interesting, like Southwest Eggrolls from Chili's.)

As for what to do, I'd probably take whatever Imodium and anti-spasmodics I needed to get me through the holiday events I wanted to participate in. I'd also eat as safely as possible at all the events and eat totally safely at home. Unfortunately, I've never found that Imodium confers total food immunity on me - it can help with indiscretions but if I push things too far (remember that lake of Coca-Cola) all the Imodium in the world won't help.

One thing that might help with the eating safely at events part is to make yourself some yummy perfectly safe foods to have on hand so you can either eat a little of them before the event or keep your fingers out of the cheese balls and eggnog at parties by promising yourself you'll go home and have, say, artichoke hummus and Silknog. (Okay, that combination doesn't sound too appetizing but you get the idea.)

I don't know about the Acacia. If what you're taking seems to be enough then I don't think I'd increase just to get through the holidays. If you were planning to increase anyhow, then sure but only if your schedule is going to be such that you can stick with your increases.

HTH. And I hope you enjoy all your holidaying.

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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]

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