Re: Yep - for stress/anxiety specific to IBS, it's hard to beat
05/03/11 09:00 AM
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I myself am dubious about this whole connection with stress and emotions (less so hormones perhaps) and how some days you can apparently eat something which doesn't mess with you and the next day if you're feeling low, you can't. there's/I know quite a few emotionally unstable/neurotic/stressed people out there who have no/never ever had any digestive problems whatsoever.
long before my IBS started I'd gone through much greater emotional upheavals/ emotions/ stress and it didn't lead to any digestive problems..
The way I see it is that for whatever reason digestive stimulants like fat, alcohol, caffeine, IF cause all that trouble we have to live with. hypnosis should be addressing this i guess, making your body perceive these stimulants as normal people do, ie don't respond in the way we do. don't trigger D or C or pain or bloating or spasms. this has nothing to do with stress?
and no-one knows why hypnosis works, but it has worked for a huge percentage of sufferers.
as for calming someone down/ relaxing you/making you less neurotic etc and helping your IBS through that.., I personally have looked into it and discovered what vitamins I may be lacking, and am now taking supplements of iron, zinc, calcium, vit D and a vit B complex. google what vitamins are responsible for what in life. as I recently said, also started looking at the glycemic load of foods. my stress levels/ depression/ OCD/ the extent to which I was neurotic (and by nature I'm as neurotic and emotional as they come!) have virtually disappeared. also, quality and enough sleep is extremely important. these remedied my 'stress', fairly rapidly too, so there is no need for hypnosis for me for this and maybe others would find the same.
only my experience...
PS hypnosis won't help with FODMAPs – as that is an organic malabsorption problem. case in point, I am severely lactose intolerant, ie won't be able to have dairy even after hypnosis. there are people out there who have FODMAP problems, ie can't have fructose/lactose/fructans etc but have no problems with fat or alcohol or caffeine. so hypnosis won't cure this but it doesn't mean that it can't get rid of your IBS (ie which in my vocab is the digestive woes we suffer which is 'not an organic problem per se but rather GI stimulants which effect the nervous control system'. (my lactose intolerance has nothing to do with IBS, ie can't be eliminated through hypnosis, in other words..))
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Susie, born in 1985,
(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable
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