Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Need Dx for friend...HELP!--Heather, need input, please!

Hi Sharon - How awful for your friend. It really sounds like she's going through hell.

I think she needs to get back to the docs and have more tests - especially on her liver, to see if she really has recovered from that damage. I'd also want tests on her gallbladder, as her symptoms could match problems there.

The FF milk isn't doing her any good - is she willing to try rice milk, since she does okay with rice chex cereal? She does need to get to the bottom of this problem because she just can't live on the cereal alone, and she shouldn't have to.

I'd be most worried about the symptoms starting after the liver damage - I'm a bit surprised they haven't followed up with her about that, to see how she's recovering. Obviously, she's really not, since she's had all these GI problems ever since.

I think Mags is right in that there is only so much you can do to help her - she has to be willing to help herself. Maybe she's really happy with the weight loss, and is worried that if she solves the GI problem her weight will creep back up. She might have some motives here for "wanting" to stay sick that you're not going to be able to overcome. Though I think you can help her realize that she can get her health, and a healthy diet, back while still keeping extra weight off. This shouldn't be an either-or situation at all.

Is she willing to pester her docs for more follow ups?

- Heather

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