Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: New

Hello and welcome. Here's my attempt to answer your questions...

1. Will I ever be able to have another child? I desperatly want my son to have a brother/sister, but I am so afraid of the pain with my episodes that I dont think I can handle it!! Does anyone have experiance with pregnancy and IBS - Diarrhea? When I was prego before, it was IBS - constipation and not as painful or hard to control.
Yes, don't worry lots of people, like Lana, Torbetta and Han Solo have been pregnant with IBS and others, like Cara and RachelT are currently pregnant
2. Has anyone here ever heard - or have experiance with - a change in IBS forms after pregnancy or gall bladder removal? Is that normal?
Yes, Any abdominal trauma can bring on symptoms
3. How long will it take, once I get started with the tea and Acacia, to start to feel "normal" again?
It depends, sticking to the diet is your first step. Keep a food diary to monitor what you eat, your bowel motions (BMs) and your symptoms. Try the Breaking the Cycle (What to Eat when you can't eat anything) , for a few days to calm your symptoms down, then graduate to Casey's suggestions for what to do next As you stabilise ie have less symptoms you can add new safe foods to your repertoire. Make sure that you drink lots of water and peppermint or fennel teas. ANY cheating from the diet will just stop you from stablising faster. Once you do a few days of "breaking the cycle" you will start to feel better especially when you add in some chicken breast and carrots etc to your plain rice. We are all here for you to help you get through this. Its hard work to get used to the diet but SOOO worth it!

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