Re: NOTHING WORKS!!
04/29/06 06:25 AM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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I am so frustrated right now. I have been on the diet, acaica, calcium, probiotics, vitamins, and hyoscamine for six months. I improved somewhat and now I'm back where I started. The what to eat when you can't eat anything has not helped me for the past week and a half. I eat it for a couple of days and then introduced some plain protein. The diarrhea never ends and the cramping continues to worsen. I don't know what else to do!!!
My advice would be to stop all your supplements and go on the Break The Cycle diet very strictly for 2-3 days. That should ease the diarrhea and cramping. If so, then start adding in other foods very slowly so you can detect any problems. Same with the supplements: add them in slowly (I'd start with the Acacia and go back to a super-low dose) so you can tell if any of them are causing problems.
Imodium and Donnatol are very helpful to me now, but before I got myself within hailing distance of "normal" with the diet, they didn't do much for me - it was like using a traffic cone to stop a freight train.
If following the Break The Cycle diet strictly for 3 days brings you no relief at all, then check to be sure you've had all the necessary diagnostic tests - you may not have IBS.
HTH.
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