I know this sounds crazy, but I was thinking today if maybe it's also why I'm so tired all the time. If things aren't moving through my intestines correctly, they can't be absorbing nutrients correctly either. I'm also a walking fiber farm lol (love that analogy!). I eat a salad for lunch every day, I take metamucil now and am eating two bowls of shredded wheat a day. I still haven't had a bowel movement since LAST Sunday! I have enough gas to supply Texaco for a month though lol! I need a shirt that says "no flames or we're going to blow!" It's awful. Of course, the more bloated I get the worse the pain gets. I hate to take another laxative because I'm so frightened of my body getting used to them. I'm not sure what else to do, so I plan to do nothing until I talk to my doctor next week. In the past three weeks I've had to take a laxative twice, so I really don't want to do that again unless I have to :(.
well, whinning, sorry. Thanks for listening. It's so great that others are also sick of hearing IBS! That isn't my problem...or else after they cut down the adhesions I would have had the same problem. Everything worked like it used to for a month and now I'm back to where I was before. I just wish there was an imaging study they could do to locate adhesions. After two surgeries in four months, I really don't want anyone to even look in there for fear of more adhesions :(.
At Sat, 17 May 2003, Karen Steward wrote:
>
>Elaine,
>
> Doesn't that IBS "diagnosis" just give you such comfort??....lol......
>I always noticed that was always the overall quoted diagnosis....and then
>what
>is offered for the relief of this so called IBS???.....well, nothing rea ly.
>
>There seems to be a pattern that I read....many women (not all)
>begin experiencing MORE problems, even problems they didn't have prior,
>after a hysterectomy. As far as your bowel problems......oh brother..... .
>I had Melissa eating cabbage soup, crushed apples, pears, she even
>choked down prune juice (yes we "warmed" it)...I bought Noni juice
>(a popular cure all), we added magnesium to her diet....along with every
>piece of advice I could buy on sluggish bowels.....we tried it all.
>One doctor told us, "I can tell you what her problem is--she is backed u
>to her EARS!!!"........Melissa said, "And.....what can you do to help??" ...
>.......
>he goes, "Eat a lot of fiber"...........Once I pulled Melissa off of him ...
>...lol.........
>she finally managed to say, "I am a walking fiber farm now!!! How
>can I eat more!!!!!!?????" He said, "You must not be eating the RIGHT ki d."
>
>I told Melissa I would cut down a tree once we returned home and we woul
>put it in the blender........trust me, I know what you are going through !
>Hers bowels weren't just sluggish--it was almost non-existent. NOTHING
>helped!!
>When you start to figure it out, it makes sense, if the bowels are entan led
> how can you
>have a normal bowel movement? Also, you may have rectal adhesions,
>along with the bowel adhesions.
>I know none of this is helping you a bit, but maybe it is confirmation to
>what you
>already know!!! It seems the help is just not there until the adhesions re
>properly removed!
>
>Karen
>