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Rapunzel157 
9:11am, September 19, 2009
As soon as weather permits.
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I just want to not hurt anymore and not have uncontrolable bowels anymore. Im working on getting better help with a new Gastro. And my Dr. is working with me as well.
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just a note -- I have bad IBS myself and no one pill helps me enough with it. I am always constipated with bloating and cramping. On my own, I bought myself and now take what's called Sustenex, a female probiotic, that cures almost all of my IBS issues. I then told my gastro doc, and he just said "good". All of his prescriptions were a waste of money, except when Zelnorm was on the market. Hope you feel better soon!!
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hey i'm with you on that one! same here! i really hope you get help too for this. right now i been on miralax. it helps a lot but not always. like lately, it's not been working. so i have to resort to corectol. i take this when i have to take my pain meds cuz the pain meds shut my colon down and miralax don't fix that. corectol helps flush some of it out so that it doesn't hurt anymore. i don't know what cauzes your problems but i hope some of this helps. i'm sorry you have to go thru things like this.
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Doing much better with a Gastro now. On Bile Acid Seqestering Agent called Welchol. 2 pills a day. It just got doubled and Im doing VERY well on it thank goodness. I was SO Over having the Constant runs! Thanks ALL!
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I go through those symtoms to. One time blocked and the nexted I can't get to the bathroon quick enough. But my doctor says I am to young for IBS. But he said that to my mother to. And I hear you bluesun I know about the pain pill problem!!! I have had that problem so bad I have had to use epston salt before!!And all it took was a child dose. Oh it has reached -4!!! Your Friend Traci((HUGS))XOXOXOXOXO's
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I thought I had IBS too for many years, but it turned out to be celiac disease where you're allergic to anything with wheat or gluten. It was diagnosed with a blood test and confirmed with biopsies. Check out celiac.com for info. Hope you feel better soon. Changing my diet has eliminated the runs, bloating, or constipation.
Linda (Hugs to you)
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I use the peppermint gels from the Now corporation. They work wonders...I take one, three times a day on an empty stomach and it soothes the intestinal tract.
I also eat whole wheat which works well for me. Fennel seed capsules are excellent for gassiness...both the pepp gels and the fennel seed are found at GNC or other nature stores.I got mine from GNC
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Thanks for all of your help. I rarely read this and even more rarely post on this. Im having the runs again but I have a FLU but Im begging to wonder now if its not the Colitis getting me again.
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Well, I am not much help in this area, but pee, pee, pee, pee, am totally incontinent of urine because of back, wear those cheap depends and then I buy cheap towels and wear that and then my pants over that and then...and then...I look an absolute horse. I don't want to go anyway, plus am on oxygen, etc. I hope you will write, I can't get answers from anybody here and am trying to make some friends. Try and stay as well as you can, take one day at a time!!!!!
God's Blesings.
Am working right now, transcriptionist prn.
Janie, look forward to hearing from you.
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Whoops!, I forgot. I have colitis too and sometimes it is totally gross and then I eat laxatives. Gees.
Janie
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Janie Im now on Welchol which is helping a lot with IBS . I have Spincter of Oddi dysfuntion from having my gallbladder out. I was misdiagnosed for years with Crohns. I use very big Kotex for any accidents. They are cheaper and work fine. WalMart has a cheap brand I use.
I dont know how to use a computer well. This site is frustrating at times. Id like to meet others with the same health problems I have. It seems a bit clickish here.I have so many health problems its a nightmare, I never wake up from! I used to be a very hard worker, and vibrant. I feel so out of things. I just try to live each day as it comes.Comments
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hang in there... this really is a great board and you;ll get lots of support.. i have been on here since Nov and have met lots of wonderful, supportive people.. i hope you find it the same for you..
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Thanks Im doin better .... I do like this site
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Welcome to DS, you will feel more at ease as time goes on, we all felt the same first off, hugs, Owlxx
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Thanks starting to feel MUCH better LOVE this place I wont be on much for a few days my honey is home for a week Take care and hugs to all!
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hugs hoping you've settled in by now always grateful for helping me settle my tummy ^_^
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Ive been so sick with flus, and now walking pnemonia. Ive been very depressed. I CANT wait for spring, so I can get out and garden.
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fianlly feeling better.Its been a bad winter for illness for me.
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yeah I know what you mean, I don't have fibro yet, but I do have the rest of that. I got it when I was in my teens, and now I'm 37, and I've been thru just about everything; remicade, prednizone, immuran and other immune suppressors, and none of them seem to do any good. I used to be the same way, a hard worker, fibrant, so on and so forth, and I still can be when I'm on pain meds, but the pain pretty much takes over our lives anymore.
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oh and anyway, I am a computer major at school, so if you need help with something, I'm just a message away :)
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Thanks tcoburn IM PC illiterate! LOL
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Hugs take care bad sleep last nite gave me severe gas when I woke up but my probiotics and yogurt fixed it
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Sweet dear just hang in there each day is a battle of it's own. And we can take seaveral blows from it. But our strenght comes from our Lord and he will fight the battle. Keep your eyes on the Lord and thing agbout your relationship with the Lord. He is there with his hands outstreched to chach you and gtive you the strenght to carry own. I am in pain 24/7 and I realy on Gods strenghts to get through each day.
wanted to share this with you.
Misery
If you want to be miserable and really feel low,
Focus your thoughts on all of your woe.
Think of your troubles, heartaches and pain;
Never the sunshine, only the rain.
Think of the awfulness of yesterday,
How others mistreated you along the way.
Then the opportunities that passed you by;
The failures you encountered each time you’d try.
Think of the tragedy that might happen some day;
Never the blue skies, only the gray -
But regardless of whatever else you may do,
Just think of yourself...and only of you.
May you have a pain free and a lovely day. I am thinking of you.
I wish Id quit getting sick its grating on my last raw nerve! Now I feel like I have an ulcer, or a peptic ulcer. Ill ask the dr. for tests on the 16th when I go in to see whats going on. Until then Im in pain and cant sit at the PC for long. It makes my tummy hurt.
Rapunzel157
I hope you feel better soon, Sweetie.
imKarenM
Me too!
DixieBlue
I sure hope you feel better. I can't get e-mail alerts to open but looks like I can write to you guys so you know I'm thinking of you. I don't know what to do. Contacted DS and they said they made an adjustment but it still is not working. I hope that you will be in less pain when you read this than when you wrote in your journal. I will be thinking of you and Basket. You have both been through alot . Love, SUE
suecalifornia
Hi Rapunzel. Thanks for writing to me. I also have IBS, migraines, vertigo, ringing in my ear, and plantar fascitis, osteoporosis, chronic anemia, chronic blood in my urine, chronic low postassioum and leaky gut, (I do not absorb well), I react to all the drugs that help depression and fibro, so that is very depression, And this FATIGUE, IS HORRIBLE, AND THE TWITCHING IS NEW! Why would I have twitching and muscle fasciculations? Kind of like parkinsons, but it is not parkinsons... raindrop512
raindrop512
I Rapunzel. You said in an earlier journal entry that you dont get pain, unless the weather is bad. But it sounds like you do too! You have such a beautiful face, I do not know if you are a christian, but you have a glow about you. I dont know who Raven is, but can you tell me w hat happened to her so I can pray for her? Hugs to you. And please pray for me, as all prayers to God are very powerful. Raindrop
raindrop512
Still living at the farm in my motorhome. The person who rents the trailor I was moving into, decided NOT to move. So Im STILL in the motor home as of Nov 1st. I get the next one that emptys. Still seeing new boyfriend but I wont move in with him. Im tired of men dictating to me. So Im staying on my own. I get to see the girls all the time. Maybe getting a bigger motor home and a lap top in the next few months. Take care ALL! Im sick as heck. Feel like Im getting pnemonia.
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