Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Um, how about Natural Calm?

Well, WW is supposed to be too harsh. But if you can tollerate it, then, I guess it's safe. Does it make YOU gassy/bloated? It certainly hurts me, but we are different

Yeah I know you're an A, I just thought when you felt you are C, you could take something gentle enough to make you go without the added discomfort. I find natural calm too gentle at times.

I am a C, but with the way Heather's diet (thank you Heather) taught me to eat, I have a BM almost every day now. I am stable, have been for awhile. I usually have my BM in the afternoon and it is pretty much fine. I used to take Natural Calm (tried it), but it seemed too gentle and didn't make me go at all. Maybe I should have taken a higher dose, but I couldn't stand the taste. I found a generic version that tasted like cherry and did the trick

I know, I know, I am such a baby, but Natural Calm does taste bad

That helped me stabilize, because I could afford to eat almost no IF and my body eventually stopped acting out. I don't need to take it anymore, because now I can eat IF too, but couldn't before.

Could your situation be caused by a viscious cycle? Maybe when you get D, you stop eating all IF, so you get constipated, then you start with the IF, get D, only to swing back to the other end. If you don't get IF do you get C only or are you still A?

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