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Hi - I actually have no idea about most of those ingredients - I'm sorry!

It doesn't sound like there's enough caffeine in there to so over-stimulate the gut it could trigger IBS. And things like the chromium I just don't know about. You might actually take the list to the UW docs and ask what they think. They'll be well-aware of the insult to the gut theory, and may also have some ideas of something else in your history that could fall into that category.

The UW is a great medical facility. They have some of the top IBS researchers in the country, including Margaret Heitkemper and Monica Jarrett (sp?). I don't think they're MDs, though, but PhD researchers, and I'm not sure if they actually see patients. Still, it makes sense to me that they'd be part of a team of IBS docs in general, so I'd assume some of the GI docs who do treat patients there are top notch. Hopefully, they're nice as well.

I think that Novartis has done a lot of funding and grant-giving to the IBS folks at UW, so it will be interesting to see if that has swayed their point of view on Zelnorm. Not sure that's at all relevant to you, it's just something I'm curious about.

Keep us posted!

- Heather

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