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Hey Bev,
Thanks for your offer to help, anything you can come up with would be great

I'd love to get stable obviously, and I'm not cheating at all. I'm ridiculously strict with what I eat, absolutely no cheating. Of course, part of the problem with me is that I still don't know 100% that it is IBS. That's the assumption, but I'm still waiting on a few more tests, so maybe it is something else and that's why all this other stuff isn't working.

I am drinking my water (I drink a lot) and I have a lot of fennel tea, I have GERD so I don't drink the peppermint very often, although I will have some if the cramps are really bad, because frankly, the heartburn is more tolerable. I'm taking my Acacia although still at a fairly low dose (about a teaspoon and a half throughout the day) but moving up slowly.

I really can't see anything in my diet that's causing it, and I don't know what else to do. I get moderate excercise, I get my rest...I don't know. I think alot of it may have to do with my having been trying to get off Paxil, and maybe my body just wasn't ready. I think I may have to suck it up and go back on an anti-depressant (I have anxiety and mild depression) because the Paxil really helped my tummy.

As for my job, I work for a bank and I work in a call centre doing telephone banking, unfortunately not something I can do from home. to be honest, I don't know if the company has anything that I might be able to do from home

Thanks again for your encouragement, definately let me know if you come up with anything!
Kelly

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