At Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Ms Lee wrote:
> >>Hello, This is my first time to this website. >>I am a 28 year old female. I have been suffering with partial bowel >>obstructions every 6 months for the last 13 years. > >Our stories are more similiar than you know! I sail in YOUR boat, I have >partials obstructions all the time and surgery is NOT an option. I put >up with it for years and it sunk me into major depression as I started >making my world real small. > >One day my internist said she wanted to try something with me. She >wanted to go against ALL the advice I was given [no ruffage, no fiber >etc]. Now, understand I lived on junk food because it was easy to >digest [chips etc and pickie food snacks, pasta etc]. She took away all >the bad carbs & pasta/rice, took away red meat and pork, she restricted >me to a few things...all part of the test. > >Do you know it has been 15 months and I have had NO partial >obstructions!!!! > >I just recently won Social Security Disability for this problem, and I >have never been better as of late...I know it takes one day to go sour >but let me say my quality of life shot up once these obstructions >stopped. > >As it turned out, with my severe ARD and fistula's in the bowel >[complication of adhesion surgery], meat and starch were binders....and >one of the triggers to the obstructions.. > >So they have diet controlled me and alleviated SO MANY problems that >made me a basket case and forced to stop working and go on disability. >Yes, I take narcotics for pain daily..but miralax has been a miracle for >me to prevent constipation from the narcotics. >/
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would you mind giving us a sample menu of what you eat? thank you.