Ibs ruined my birthday

[Cjc_woodworx]

Hi all another ibs related issue I ate late again last night at 9:20pm take away went bed about 10:15pm had one BM this morning was horrible then just constantly bloated feeling horrible not been toilet since 8:30am this morning really worried and it's my birthday and it's ruined it

[Eliana5]

Yes..IBS pretty much ruins my life. Holidays, outings, my birthday, my dating life, social life. Yes..I can relate. So many people think "I am making excuses" I feel I have a lonely, isolating life. It's not like I can tell someone.."on sorry I can't go on a date with you..because I'm constipated and have to take laxatives, I'm cramping and will be on toilet all day from a laxative. Yes, having IBS is the Pitts. I guess I have gotten used to it by now..but I still feel lonely with no friends anymore and having to be near a toilet. Oh..btw, Happy Birthday and hope you feel better..

[Earthflower]

I really feel for you. It seems there are no predictions in whether it will be a good or bad day or week with IBS. Just want to let you know that you have my sympathy and i do know how it feels. My advice is to wait till you have a good day and celebrate your birthday then. So what if it's not the actual day. Never the less i hope you managed your birthday to the best of your capability.

[ElkaAnn]

I have suffered with ibs for about 10 years. I recently found out that I have some aortic vascular calcification, and this scared me so I decided to change my diet. I was macrobiotic for 10 years from about 19 years to 29 years and I was very healthy on that diet. So this week, I decided to go back to eating that way for my heart health. Well --- great side effect for the first time in 10 years -- no IBS! Yes, it totally resolved my IBS in 3 days. I eliminated all dairy -- milk, yogurt, cheese etc. And also eliminated eggs. Also no sugar. I have been eating pressure cooked brown rice w/ sesame salt (gomasio condiment), greens, vegetables, sea vegetables, miso soup, vegetable soup and fish a few times a week. Very quickly my intestines and gut changed. Bowel movements feel complete for the first time in 10 years. Yup -- no sitting in the bathroom for hours each day. Macrobiotic diet is not easy if you are addicted to meat, sugar, dairy etc. But the food is very delicious once you learn how to cook this way. It's best to find a macrobiotic center to learn how to cook and eat this way. There are also many books about macrobiotics and macrobiotic cooking.

[Hidden in reply to ElkaAnn]

Hi there ElkaAnn

I've read your response with interest. I've had IBS since and I've managed it well until, that is, when I had food poisoning back on 22 November last year. Since the time I've had nausea loads of times along with diarrhoea. I'm having another awful flare up today which is nausea, it's horrible.

I've had a Colonoscopy, which was clear and an Ultrasound where they've picked up that I have a wider tube to the pancreas than normal. I'm almost hoping that's the problem and they'll be able to rectify it (I have a pancreas blood test on 18 April).

I've been drinking Kombucha and taking Probiotics and I thought they were working until today.

I'm going to look at the Microbiotic diet, I'm Vegan so no meat, dairy or cheese won't bother me.

[ElkaAnn in reply to Hidden]

Yes, Macrobiotics could be helpful to you. Where are you located? Are you in Europe or the USA? If you let me know, I might be able to recommend a center there.

[Hidden in reply to ElkaAnn]

Hi ElkaAnn

Thank you and I'm in the UK. Really appreciate your help.

[Stuart24]

Hello, I recommend this to everyone with similar symptoms, because after 27 years of suffering IBS D this is now what is working for me, and for the first time I feel that I am now in control. It is based on some excellent publications, and just observing how healthy people live. First, go to the doctors and get yourself checked for intestinal infections, and whatever other tests they want to do. If you are all clear then the first thing to sort out is your vitamins and the timing of your eating. IBS causes vitamin deficiencies which are very difficult to overcome in most people’s diets, because you are probably eating selectively. Your vitamin levels affect the health of your guts, and the health of your guts affects your vitamin absorption, so it is a vicious circle that you have to break. Get some really good, expensive, multi-vitamins (ideally constituted for your age) and take them without fail every day before your breakfast. Do not get the ones with calcium and magnesium as certainly in large doses these minerals can mess you up, and you should get enough from your diet. If you are on low FODMAPs, go for lactose free dairy products. At the same time, sort out your eating and fasting periods straight away. Your small intestine should be practically sterile, and your stomach acid along with bowel cleaning during fasting will usually do this. You need to fast for this to be effective, and by that I mean, absolutely no eating in between, only water, or tea with saccharin. Imagine that you never washed your dinner plates and just kept putting food on them all the time!, you need to give your guts time for cleaning. Eat a good breakfast at say 7am or what suits you and then a good lunch at 12 o'clock - absolutely no food in between. After lunch, no food again for at least 5 hours, and eat well again for your evening meal because it has got to get you through the night. After that, no supper or late night snacks, no food or milk at all until breakfast the next day. In general, do not eat fried or roasted starches, i.e. crisps, chips or fried bread. Fried and roasted starches, the high temperature produced lovely crispy bits, are complex polymers that are very bad for you and are very difficult to digest, they feed the bacteria and make you ill. Starches should be boiled, and this is enough. You will feel hunger in the fasting periods, but do not respond to it - only with water and drinks - not fizzy drinks or milk. Make sure chicken is well cooked, and that ham is very fresh, you don’t want ad-hoc infections messing you up. Importantly, when you are feeling better, do not resort to your old ways, you are still recovering. Start doing some exercise if you don’t already, this will also help with your gut motility. Your intestines take time to fully recover, and the vitamins help this in the long term. You then need to maintain a healthy and consistent way of eating and always keep the vitamins topped up to prevent you from relapsing. A lot of this was taken from this paper below, but it does fit exactly with what I have experienced.

Treatment and Management of SIBO — Taking a Dietary Approach Can Control Intestinal Fermentation and Inflammation

By Aglaée Jacob, MS, RD

Today’s Dietitian

December 2012, Vol. 14 No. 12 P. 16

[weegmack in reply to Stuart24]

That’s really good advice, apart from one thing. Saccharine! That is a real trigger for diarrhoea for me and always has been. X

[Cjc_woodworx]

Thankyou all for your kind words still getting a couple of sharp pains left side of my belly button went toilet this morning and was fine but started to get wierd gurgling noises again and back end which is making me nauseous with the noise

[Cosm]

Hi I know this all too well. You can guarantee if you’re doing something special things will turn bad. I’m actually reverting back to not swaying from the low fodmap diet at the moment and take half a lax sachet everyday and also kiwi crush which seems to be working. I haven’t been so well in ages. It’s very easy to get of track and thing go from bad to worse. I do wonder though do we ever get it completely right and have no symptoms. Our bowels just seem to let us down no matter what. I am predominantly C rather than D but always search out toilet wherever I go.

[Cjc_woodworx in reply to Cosm]

Mine is weird at work I go 3 times a day then when I am off work only go once or twice don't know why