A morning from hell!!!
#28281 - 11/21/03 12:16 PM
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maryh
Reged: 10/02/03
Posts: 192
Loc: IL
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I jusr need some moral support. I have been sticking to the IBS diet, with an exception of one pop last week, some hambuger last sunday, and two sips of coffee. Today I had the worst IBS attack of my life!! I went to work and got sick there and had to be driven home due to the extreme bowel spasms!!! It all worked it's way out and I had to take Librax three times to get it under control.Thank God for hot pads!!! I know alot of you have this on a daily basis-How do you cope! I feel as weak as a kitten, but am getting some pretzels, chamomile tea and water down slowly. I'm frustrated because I didn't need the librax for 3 days!! Could I have gone off of it too quickly???? Yesterday I stuck to the diet perfectly!!!!! Any thoughts out there????  Maryh
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Are you under a lot of stress? Have you had any changes in your schedule? I empathize w/ you, babe.
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Soemtimes it just happens, Mary. I know it's happened to me several times. There will be some little tiny detail in a food product that I ate that just didn't agree with me. Or I'll eat something one time and it won't agree with me another time.
I think a lot of it has to do with stress. Sometimes my body will be under stress and I won't even realize it because it's not a typical stress. Hopefully this makes sense.
Big hugs for you! I hope you start feeling better.
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I can't cheat on my diet -- not one iota! If I do, I will almost certainly get an IBS attack. For sure I would have gotten sick from the tiny amounts of trigger foods that you ate. In the past I found my attacks could be cumulative. So sometimes I might not have gotten sick after eating something once off the diet, but if I cheated for several days, even with small amounts of trigger foods, eventually I would get a terrible attack.
When you stay on the diet, what foods are you eating? For example, do you eat organic food or conventional food? I can no longer tolerate conventional food. Unfortunately I am very sensitive.
By the way, I still get sick sometimes even when I stick 100 per cent to the diet. However, I don't get the debilitating pain like I used to, just the D.
I never tried pretzels after a really bad painful attack (I wonder what's in them), but typically I drank a lot of hot (boiled) water and then I had to go on a plain home-made chicken soup diet for up to two weeks until my stomach recovered. Blah!
I hope you feel better very soon.
Belinda
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I have found that pretzels are a good soluble fiber for me and they are fat free. It really helps me to drink chamomile tea and nibble on pretzels during a bad day!I will stick to the diet-because it may have been cumulative as you said! No experimenting with trigger foods this holiday!! Maryh 
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Thanks for all your encouragement-yes I have been stressed also-working on that! I appreciate your support and encouragement!! Maryh
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cheer up!
#28936 - 11/25/03 12:11 PM
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evie
Reged: 11/22/03
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Maryh,
You'll pull through. I hope you feel better soon! And good job - don't let work get you down! Be good to yourself.
*evie
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