Hi - maybe someone(s) can help me...
I am having trouble with the diet especially this past weekend. I always have gas. I suffer from IBS-D. Last weekend I had paralyzing pain in my abdomin and below. It hurt so bad I was literally crying. It hurt to laugh and move and everything. My husband is very supportive but it didnt help that he just wanted to see me laugh. Gotta love him!
My doctor diagnosed me with IBS and was giving me Dicetol - which worked for me - but I told him I didn't want to be on pills forever. Thats when he told me to cut out all starches (ie: potatoes, pasta, etc) and eat all the red meat I wanted. I told him that I thought it was the red meat but he said "Well - we are going to have to experiment together"
That night I went home and happened to run across Heather (she is going to be the head angel in heaven with my grandmother when it is her time! - What a wonderful person)
I have followed Heathers diet to a T. I have been on the diet for 3 weeks now. I bought the Eating With IBS book And there are alot of spices and items which I have never heard of. Is there anyway to tone down the diets to slowing merge someone into the diet because I find that I cannot just make something out of the book. I am always going to the supermarket for a last minute spice or wierd add in pick up. No offense intended, Heather. But we were a meat, potatoe and corn family.
Now -I mostly live on fish, rice, some pasta, oatmeal and herbal teas and tons of fruits and vegetables. The first week I lost 10 lbs which Heather advised was not good - because I was experiencing body aches. My weight has gone back to the same as before the diet.
My question is: Am I even doing the diet right? Because this pain this weekend was awful. I have never been more uncomfortable in my life!!! I am so scared the pain will come back and I don't want to go to my doctor because he is no help at all.
I live in Saskatchewan - the land of free health care so that means that every one likes to visit doctors regularly for no good reasons at all. So it is difficult to find another doctor because no one is taking new patients. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you,
Lana_Marie
PS I have the First Year for IBS on order - so if anyone has any advice from that book they would like to share before my book gets here feel free - because I haven't read it yet
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Lana_Marie
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Born May 12, 2004 9lbs, 3oz
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