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After reading tons of information over the past month I have come up with a list of six tips to get me through my new journey with IBS.
1. As you are on the floor or in bed curled up in fetal position remember the following. Irritable bowel syndrome doesn't cause inflammation or changes in bowel tissue or increase your risk of colorectal cancer. In many cases, you can control irritable bowel syndrome by managing your diet, lifestyle and stress.
2. Don't be embarassed, one in five Americans has this condition. Only crazy people like me will talk about it to the world.
3. I think I might need therapy because of separation anxiety over certain foods but I think IBS might keep me alive longer. Having to eat more fiber has a cholesterol lowering effect, decreases the tendency of the blood to clot and might help prevent colon cancer.
4. I'm exercising more because it helps to move all the gas and stool along. Therefore with the new diet and forced exercise I am starting to shed some pounds.
5. I am now controlling my temper better and making a point to stay away from drama.
6. Acupuncture has been a rock for me so I have not needed to take the anti spasmic medications that were prescribed to me. The doctor said that there is no cure for this and Acupuncture gives me relief for about 4-5 days so I now look forward to my treatments.
As I watch my stomach blow up each morning to the size of a second trimester pregnancy these are the things that I am trying to hold onto. Any other tips would greatly be appreciated.
Here is a book with recipes that might help.
Found picture at http://www.revolutionhealth.com/groups/ibs-times I have not explored this site yet but it looks like another cool site to go check out for digestive issues.
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6/10/09
Last month I was diagnosed with IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome. This is another trophy to add to my invisible shelf of awards for bizarre and embarrassing bodily problems over the past few years. Don’t get me wrong I will take IBS over the heart issues any day but man this blows.
IBS is this roller coaster ride of your intestines controlling your body. Tomorrow Ill really research the topic and share. I’m sure this excites you all. I just have this crazy obsession to research and understand everything that is going on in my body.
It started with this crazy cramping and bouts of diarrhea over a month ago. It lasted for a day and then stopped. A few days after that I had what felt like ripping and tearing in my stomach and intestines, it was awful. We blew it off as the stomach flu and moved on but then it came back in smaller episodes a week later.
Acupuncture has helped a lot with the ripping and tearing feeling and really turns these episodes around for about four or five days but then it comes back. This weekend and today it came back with a vengeance. My stomach and intestines have been in a huge ball all morning. Saturday night the cramping was so bad that I had pain all the way up my spine and could barely stand. After it stopped I could barely unfold from the fetal position and I think its triggering my migraines.
Along with Acupuncture I have changed to a high fiber diet. I’ve been on this diet for over a month now and really have no stress other than the IBS so what the heck is going on?
Is there anyone out there that has this and can give me some tips on what to do? I have read and read over the past few weeks and see no end in sight with this. According to some articles Acupuncture will fix it but it takes a long time. What can I do right now?
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6/8/09
I am sorry for this very short post today but I have been ill for 3 days and its bothering my eyes to look at the computer screen for a long time.
I took my son to the doctor this week for his one year check up. I discussed with the doctor the whole Vitamin D vs the Flu Shot thing and here is the answer that he gave me.
Any other year he would not fight me on not getting the Flu Shot. Swine Flu aside every seven to eight years the flu mutates into a new form that our bodies have not encountered and we have small epidemics. Over the next two years he would like to see me get the shot for all of us until the world sees how the flu mutates. Then we can go from there and again we are not talking about the Swine Flu. He had no comment on it at all.
My friends Pediatrician states the same thing. She only recommends the Flu Shot based on data for that year. My friend has not been advised to give her son a Flu Shot ever but her Pediatrician is leaning towards a yes this year. Her son is four years old.
According to http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/04/this_years_flu_season.php. Pediatric flu mortality has also been better this year 45 deaths. But of the 36 deaths in ages for whom vaccination was recommended (older than 6 months), 5 had been vaccinated, although the data are provisional. No data are given for vaccination rates for comparison. It's clear that if vaccination is protective, it is not completely so. Bacterial co-infection (primarily with Staph) was mostly in older children (over age 10). He has a chart over at the site too.
My Pediatrician said that he loves Vitamin D and recommends it for many other reasons. He stated that he had not heard any news on Vitamin D helping to prevent the Flu but we all know that doctors are not required to keep up on all the latest information.
I'm getting closer to a decision and I think that I am going to make my decision based off of what my friends Pediatrician has to say. If two doctors who normally don't push the vaccine tell us to take it this year, then I think I will listen.
What do you think and has anyone ever heard of this seven year mutation thing? I couldn't find any information on the subject.
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6/7/09
Birth Control Positives
You may not need to worry. "For healthy, lean, nonsmoking women, oral contraceptives can safely be continued into their early 50s," says Andrew Kaunitz, associate chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University Of Florida College Of Medicine Jacksonville
If you are a woman looking for a way to reduce acne breakouts, you might want to discuss your skin problem with a gynecologist instead of a dermatologist. The FDA has approved low-dosage birth-control pills such as Ortho Tri-Cyclen and generic norgestimate/ethinyl estradiol for use in the treatment of acne.
Other positive side effects are; lighter menstruation, reduction of cramps, less risk of uterine cancer and less rheumatoid arthritis.
Birth Control Negatives
The world needs more female Cardiologists. This first negative on the list is documentation according to female doctors.
While a woman's risk of having a heart attack in her 30s or 40s is extremely low, heart disease death rates have recently risen in women ages 35 to 44, and no one knows exactly why. This could be due to an increase in obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking, all of which raise heart disease risk. But it could also be because more middle-aged women are using hormonal contraceptives today than ever before.
Women who use estrogen-containing birth control pills are at a 3 to 6 fold increased risk of developing blood clots. Blood clots may lead to deep vein thrombosis, heart attack, or stroke.
Cigarette smoking increases the risk of blood clots in women using combination contraceptives, particularly for women older than 35 years and those who smoke more than 15 cigarettes per day.
Low-estrogen pills may increase your risk of stroke, according to the American Stroke Association, perhaps because estrogen causes blood to clot more easily. The higher the level of estrogen in a pill or patch the greater the risk. Your risks also go up if you smoke or have migraines with visual symptoms. "And if you smoke, have migraines, and are on the pill, you have 34 times the risk of someone with none of those risk factors," says Thomas Hemmen, M.D., a neurologist at the University of California, San Diego, Stroke Center. "If you're going to take the pill, you absolutely should not smoke."
I wish that I could be alive another hundred years from now when the scientists get all this stuff figured out. All drugs and vaccines have great positives and negatives.
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6/3/09
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