cortextoom's Journal

at first i had the feeling that i would be constipated whatever i do, but after some stool softeners and less food intake lately, i can go with no problem or almost!! i have less pain, and period type pain lessened a lot lately, yes i get it when i'm full after only 500 cal or maybe 600, taken....per day, my doctor told me diet and exercise must replace my probiotic intake, well we have no access to probiotics to my country so that's the only way, it means you have to cut down foods that are all time favorites like pizza's, cheese cakes , burgers and mc donald stuff, probiotics probably make you feel much better and you can tollerate pizza as long as you are not gluten free or at least you want to eat a gluten free pizza, but i cannot eat those, they make me bloat, nauseated , and have more pain and less bms, lately i noticed rabbit like poops, and pains that feels like pricking in my abdominal area, the doctor felt my abdomin and gave me laxatives, and warned me against fat foods, now i feel better and i am less stressed, before i had ibs i could eat all the time and enjoyed it and given even a heck about diabetes in my family, i get checked for it annually since i have my grandmother died from it, and my uncle has it (because kids can get it on their mother's side more than those on their father's side but i don't think it's hereditary i think it's the diet that plays part too, i have no diabetes, it's clear it's ibs) - but i cannot eat knowing that i get abd cramping after that..... the crampings are dull but still disturbing, i was told to take antispadomatics and still eat high fat diets but i don't like to take such medicines and prefer probiotics ; i think antispadomatics have side effects? but probiotics have good bacertia too bad that our country do not care about ibessers!!! once of my collegues has ulcerative colitis but still eats what she wants and eats all the time, in the morning she can have bacon and eggs or maltese bread with pork (or ham) and she has no problem as long as she takes her pills, my doctors says there is no cure or particular treatment for all ibs types that keeps you from having attacks - i also read that ibs medicine can be good for one person and not good for another person, so i'm at a loss.....in ibd you have one particular medicine because the doctor practically knows what you have, and blood in stool is a symptom of uc...... i have no blood in stool so i don't have that...... , and diharrea is common with uc... i have constipation, i don't know if weight loss is a symptom of uc, but probably not because the uc patient , my collegue is rather chubby...., i'm not slim either so ithink ibs doesn't have wieght loss as a symptom, but if you don't eat except chicken breasts you will loose weight especially with exersion....because of eating less you will cause apetite loss, and that's why you will then loose weight.... unexpected weight loss is a cause for concern, si i[m sure i have ibs but it's killing me knowing that icannot do anything about my ibs, and hear it is chronic or intolerable with this pain....it is not sharp pain but often, that constant urge to go to the bathroom to empty your a** sorry for the pun!!! and finding you don't need to is really annoying....jogging walking and rawing - any kind of exercise seem to help a lot my digestion but also increases my urge to empty s** invisible s*** or backed up waste that isn't ready to come out before the next day, i am thinking of increase more veg intake, as this morning it worked and i emptied a lot from my colon i remember... my gi doctor advices against colon cleansing..............so i will increase veg, they are natural laxatives. what is bothering me is when i can say, 'ibs is over' like i said goodbye to fibromyalgia, which is now only a minor nuisence and i get bouts only once in a blue moon, i look back i used to say there was no day, at the onset of fibro, that i didn't suffer from it, i used to be so painful, but i didn't say it hurts, and my cousin who is a nurse like said 'fibro makes you feel more painfu than you think but you seem not to look painful but healthy' when i had fibro i gained weight, had every test possible which was clear,  i was hungry all the time but also painful all the time ' and was relieved only by sleep, altough at times i used to wake up from pain..... but with ibs thank God the pain don't wake me up, as long as i don't decied to wake up once woken up the pain start to act up when i go then it gets better, if i eat i get constipated, but if i take veg or fruit that's ok i won't bloat with veg or fish. .... that is y i think it's fatty foods that makes me feel bad...!!! but doctors told me also!!! i hope just to get rid of ibs, i feel very bad, not too stressed but i miss food