Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Did a search on Zelnorm, any ideas???

Okay, this is my bowl habits and how I explained it to my doc and what he said. I took my diary of food and showed him how much fiber I eat a day and along with SFS. He asked me if I didn't eat fiber and take the SFS how would my bowels be and I told him I probably wouldn't go every day or every other day. So I think he's basing me trying the Zelnorm on that. WHEN I having a normal, attack free BM everyday, (graphic here, sorry), I have no pain and I go it is usually not a nice semi-solid bm, it's usually pieces, but I go, I don't have to strain and maybe some people would consider it constipation, since it's balls, but I go with no pain and straining. This is usually when I'm attack free eating between 18/20 gm of fiber a day, along with tons of water. When I have an attack, I would say 80% of the time, I have the pain sometimes up to 5/6 hours before I can even go and when I do it's hard at first, followed by the explosive D, for about 4 or 5 more movements. Since I always end up with D, I have considered myself D. I do occasionally have episodes when it's just explosive. BEFORE I was taking this much fiber, if I had one of my D attacks where I would go like 5 times, I wouldn't have a BM for about 4days, than I'd get back on track for a little while. So am I D or C??? Personally I'd live with being either if I didn't have the un Godly pain. My last colonoscopy showed an area in my decesending colon that completely shuts and he had to blow a ton of air into my colon to open it to finish the test, and that is where my pain is, almost always. I have been on every IBS pill there is and have been on LIbrax for about 10 years, I have with the help of Heather's diet and my fiber dropped from 3 a day to 1 at bedtime, I had horrendous attacks taking 3 a day, but it worked better than any other meds I had taken inthe past, so we went with the Librax. I do know one of the side effects of Librax is constipation. So since I had attacks taking 3 and with the help of this diet I have dropped it to the 1 at bedtime. My doc still wants me to take it, he even said if it doesn't make me too lethargic to take it 3x a day with the zelnorm??? So I hope I have explained the life and times of Cheryl's IBS lol. So, if I try the Zelnorm, I'm going to try it this weekend when I don't have anything major going on and can run to the toilet if I have to. And it's funny how the Dr.'s never want to sit and discuss the fiber differences and how to eat, etc. they just think a pill will solve it all and make you think you can eat whatever you want, when I told him I basically live on carbs, I think he thought I was an idiot, but never offered any eating advise.
In my next house I'm just putting my bed in the bathroom.

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IBS-D, extreme pain and cramping - GERD - lactose/dairy intolerant, OCD, Fibromyalgia
DX: w/ Multiple Sclerosis 3/10
I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me. Phil 4:13

Edited by LtDanFan (08/16/05 05:06 AM)

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