OK, I have been faithfully taking Citrucel and trying to adhere to the IBS diet and now, the diarrhea (with really bad cramping) is gone, and I get solid (on the hard side) BM. It seems to hurt all the same when the bowel moves though. (Well, let me qualify this. It hurts all the same but the duration of pain is much shorter.) I push on my stomach and it feels really hard too. (I massage it a little after the BM in an attempt to ease the pain.) After the BM, I am stil hurting, but by massaging my tummy and with peppermint tea, the pain goes away in 10 minutes or so although it still feels sore a little while longer. Duration of time wise, this is much better than having a diarrhea type of attacks, but there is still this cramping and urgency.
I also keep a very very strong cup of peppermint tea on my bedside so in case the cramping starts in the middle of the night (which wakes me up from my sleep), I have the tea to ease the pain. (Only time in the past I had to go for BM in the middle of the night was when I had a jet lag traveling international with a big time difference. Oh well.)
I wonder if things could improve to the point that I don't need to go for BM in the middle of the night, and it won't accompany cramping...
I was hoping getting rid of diarrhea will solve the cramping problem, but not. At least not yet.
What do you think? Is this a pretty normal transition?
Any comments GREATLY appreciated!
T
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