I have been dealing with constant D, stomach cramps, for well over 2 years now and I have dropped over 120 pounds now. I am 31 male, no prescription drugs, no alcohol. I am not working as of right now, and the county approved very basic medical (sent me to an MD, and to a Gastro. I will include below everything I have tried to date and would welcome any suggestions and comments from anyone 
First I'll start with what I've done then move to the doctors , I have eliminated anything and everything from my diet. I started with eliminating Milk, and all diary products over a year ago. I gave up coffee, and I also reduced my fats to only very little canola and olive oil, no hydrogenated oils, no bad fats/oils. I tried eliminating gluten for close to a month with no change to my diet. I tried just eating brown rice every day for close to a month, still cramped and suffered from D.
In the last couple months I have pretty much given up on eating. In the AM I am making Bob's Scottish Oatmeal (finner grain of steel cut oats) and serve with a little bit of rice milk. Other then that, I some times will try to eat pasta, toast (no butter), I made my own sourdough bread from scratch with NO fat, that didn't help so I been buying Aleverda St organic Multi Grain Flourless bread.
I also do no consume any soda, nor do I consume any artifical sweetners. I drink about 6-8 glasses of water a day. Sometimes I will make hot black tea (decaf)
I tried to follow the recipes here, and I just bought Heathers IBS cookbook on eBay yesterday, I been pretty to broke not working to be able to afford a new copy.
Supplements/Fiber: I tried Heathers Tummy fiber worked up to 2 teaspoons a day, was getting bloating so I quit taking it. I just started again last week with it, right now I'm worked up to about 1 1/2 teaspoons a day.
I was on a non dairy probiotic, and just switched to Jarrow's Probiotic yesterday.
I have tried a digestive enzyme by GNC, but they changed the formula it now includes milk, I switched to Now Plant Enzymes (totally vegan ezymes)
Doctors: As I started above the county agreed to send me to a doctor 2 months ago, he was of no help. He said seeing as I am still at 190 some pounds(5'10") (I'm around 180 something right now) he is not concerned with the weight loss and further more says I'm still overweight. He agreed to send me to a gastro.
I had complete bloodwork that come back normal, Diabetes test was normal, Thyroid normal, Cholesterol really good, and I had a urine test that come back fine.
The gastro did a colonoscopy, and he stated that it doesn't reveal any problems. I have not had any follow ups with him since the procedure 3 weeks ago and that is the ony test he ran. I have called him and he asked if I was feeling any better, I said no. He said well just start a fiber supplement and call us back in a few weeks.
I unfortuantly can not go to any other docotrs, the county has advised me that they can only approve one doctor for each field. If I don't like them or the treatment I will need to pay out of pocket to go else where.
So at this point I feel hopeless, and I don't know what to do at this point. I am guessing what I have is IBS, since last week I have dropped another 7 pounds. I also hurt allot since the procedure, I advised the gastro and he stated that it's not from the colonoscopy and that was that.
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IBS-D, Lactose Intolerant, latex allergy, MCS, Sun allergies, depression/anxiety, 156 pounds weight loss now (still dropping), cramping, rarely leave the house.
Edited by Comfortablynumb (02/19/08 04:57 PM)
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Over 2 Years now constant D unable to eat dropped 120 pounds now
