REALLY SCARED HAVEN'T HAD A BM IN ALMOST 5 DAYS!
#297327 - 01/19/07 03:21 PM
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emmasmom
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HELP PLEASE I HAVEN'T HAD A BM IN 5 DAYS I HAVE UP MY IF BIG TIME TODAY AND TOOK 1 TABLESPOON OF MOM ABOUT 1/2 AN HOUR AGO NOW I FEEL A LITTLE NAUSEA AND LIGHT HEADED! I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO I AM SCARED AND I AM CRYING SO HARD! PLEASE ANY ONE HELP ME NOW!
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Oh, I'm sorry you're feeling so terrible. But don't be scared! And don't panic because this will just make you feel worse. You'll be okay. Five days isn't too long - and it can happen especially after having several attacks over the weekend.
Make yourself some tea (peppermint or ginger or chamomile), eat something if you can, and maybe that will help your nausea. I don't know too much about Milk of Magnesia or how it works, but maybe someone else can let you know how soon it should work. You could try doing some of the yoga exercises Heather provides on her site: Yoga Poses for IBS Otherise, I think it would help to make yourself comfortable, do something to distract your mind from obsessing over having a BM.
Hugs!
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well don't be scared! I recently went ELEVEN days! Had to do something so I took 3 Ex-lax. If IBS-C is your problem, you might try Dulcolax, one pill in a.m., one pill p.m. After, of course, you have "emptied". Good luck!
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Yeah, as ellyblue sais, that's what I used to do too, when I hadn't gone for more than 7 days straight -- take ex lax. It works.
That's if the MOM doesn't work. I hope it does, but it did nothing for me. Luckily the Mag citrate worked like a charm (you might want to have some of that handy for later use, have you ever taken that, aka Natural Calm?).
I understand why you're scared, but really, it's not that bad. You have options. Take ex lax.
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please don't be scared, relax take some MOM, a warm bath or heating pad helps . just think to yourself you will get thru' this. ---hug---
-------------------- ibs-c,gerd,small hiatal hernia ...thank you for the board and for helping me with my questions.<3
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OK I TOOK THE MOM 2 TWICE AND ALL I'M GETTING IS GAS! I HAVE A LITTLE CRAMPING BESIDES THAT I REALLY DON'T FEEL BAD! I TOOK A WARM BATH! WATCH TV ATE SOME SUPER (SWEET POT) AND GRILLED CHICKEN SAND & APPLESAUCE) NOTHING I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. DO I NEED TO WORRY OR GO TO THE ER? i WAS ALSO TOLD TO TAKE A COLACE IS IT HEALTHY TO PUT THAT MUCH IN ME?
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i hope you are doing better.
-------------------- ibs-c,gerd,small hiatal hernia ...thank you for the board and for helping me with my questions.<3
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So, did you try taking ex lax? MOM didn't do ANYTHING for me (didn't make me go, I mean, just the side effects).
Going to the ER would not be a nice experience.
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YES I FINLLEY HAD A BM! BUT MY STOMACH MAKING ALL KINDS OF SOUNDS NOW! HOW DO I KEEP THIS FROM NOT HAPPENING AGAIN?
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Great!
Not having a BM you mean?
Well, what do you eat? Are on on the BTC diet?
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I replied to your discussion in the living room. You need more IF in your diet.
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No I'm trying eating whats heather suggest in her book the bread pasta rice potoes at every meal and i don't understand how to get if in there and how to get if in snacks and stuff! and to much bread makes my c worse. I get so sick around my perios and always have a attack no matter what I do or eat! I''m confused on what to eat and what not to eat and how to quit haveing attacks during my period. I don't eat red meat or dairy. any suggestions? Breakfeat is the worse on what to eat!
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Well, tell us what you eat for breakfast
Did you try oatmeal? It has IF (SF:IF = 1:1 is the ratio), but the oat bran is the most gentle kind of bran you can get... If you already eat oatmeal and your tummy likes it, continue. If you haven't tried, you might want to try.
I am C, I eat oatmeal every morning (religeously) and I think it helps my C.
About IF, well, did you try making smoothies? Some sort of milk alternative (or water) with bananas and/or peaches and add strawberies, blueberies, raspberies, pineapple... (sorry, that's what I put in my smoothies, can't think of anything else, but go crazy!)
I am not an advocate of adding IF before your stomach stabilized a little though. That's why I advocate getting a gentle laxative such as Natural Calm, because you can't possibly eat BTC without getting costipated (too much starch, you know, I don't know if anything of that starch ever makes it to the large intestine). When I did BTC, I was super C too, but I was taking a not-so-gentle laxative (Ex-Lax, later Miralax, Miralax was causing me to have gas, it sucked ) because I didn't know about Natural Calm. When I found it, it was GREAT!
So... if you feel better now, you might want to start adding IF. DO NOT ADD IF IN THE MORNING (that is, don't put random stuff in your oatmeal, no dried fruit, raisins, fresh fruit, etc). THe morning is when you are most vulnerable. So, start morning easy with as much SF as you like and add IF later in the day. What I did: - mornings -- ate oatmeal with acacia and water or almond milk or rice milk (not good), and either a little jam, sugar or some cocoa (and marshmallows, LOL. The greatest invention of the US - cocoa with marshmallows!) - started making smoothies in the evening, mixing acacia in them - started (over-)cooking some vegies, like tomatoes, peppers, onions... SMALL amounts increasing them if I saw I was OK with the small amounts. I had to give up corn completely (I love corn) however, because it made me sick - Ate brown rice instead of white, but soaked it before cooking. Basically soaking it for 30 minutes takes care of the roughness of it. Rice bran is also easier on IBS tummies than other brans.
Gradually I could eat as much IF as my body needed to be able to go. I don't take laxatives any more. The laxatives I was taking were doing great things for me though: - they were taking away my anxiety of not having gone - they were providing me with a way to very slowly introduce IF and not suffer from the increased amounts of gas and bloating a lot of people complain of when adding IF.
Those are both very important points and were crucial for my recovery. When I was first diagnosed with IBS, I thought was going to die. It would hit and leave me curled up, sobbing and scared when it would hit again. And I am not talking about D attacks, just pain (I am C as I said). The gentle diet and the slow introduction of IF did wonders for me.
Before Heather taught me how to eat (through her website and book), I would have times when I would eat TONS of IF and times when I would not eat any. I was super inconsistent... Now, I try to eat roughly the same amount of IF a day so my body doesn't forget how it is.
So, bottom line (sorry for the long post): - try oatmeal - try brown rice - try to get some overcooked vegies in those potatoes/pasta. Start small. - consider getting Natural Calm or generic Magnesium Citrate (from regular pharmacies in the US)
--J
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