Hi Sharon,
Thank you for the kind and encouraging post. I am finding that it a trial and error and even sometimes that is not set in stone.
Yeah, finding a doc is really difficult. Since I am in the medical field, I beleive I will start using my connections to try and find a good GI doc. All I want is someone to really hear what I am saying, instead of just being another insurance claim.
Again, I have to say I am grateful every day that at least I know that my problems seem to only be in the morning. So, I can at least plan around that now. I really feel for those people who deal with it 24/7, especially the D. I had learned to live with the C, having it most of my life, but this has really threwn me for a loop.
As far as the drugs go, I am not against their use where benefit is measureable, but I usually don't go that route. Now, that is not to say that I won't in the future, but for now, I seem to be able to manage fairly well...you know, good days and bad. Being in the medical field, I have seen what the quick fix of drugs has done to patients, and I know that true and genuine healing takes time. Drugs just seem to mask the symptoms but do not get to the core issue. But, as the wonderful GaGa says, why not use them in a pinch as kind of a bandaid, until you can work through it. I have seen with our patients drug upon drug upon drug, so that one drug is used to treat the side effects of the other drug, and it goes on and on until the patient has a 3 page drug sheet. Do I now use a dose of immodium when needed...sure, but I don't use it unless absolutely necessary. I feel like it locks up my bowels and I believe my body wants to expel the stool quickly for whatever reason.
I have been doing alot of reading on here and elsewhere, because information is knowledge. This site is the very best that I have found so far.
I am so thankful and grateful that so far I have had a fantastic week. I have had morning BMs with a fairly normal stool (as normal as can be with this condition), and I was able to commute symptom-free. That is not to say, that I wasn't anxious and scared the whole way, but I made it with no stops. I have been using 1/2 teaspoon of the Acacia and one 600 mg calcium/ 400 mg D only in the evening, and it seems to have helped. But, every day is a new day, and now I take it day by day. That is the only way I have found so far to get a handle on this condition, because I have gotten confident before and ended right back at square one. 
It most certainly is an individual path and what works for one may not work for another, but I will give it the old college try. 
So, let me sign off now and hope to chat with you again soon.
Lynn
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