Irritable Bowel Syndrome

I've had this since as far back as 1987. I used to take Donnagel PG for it but you can't get that anymore.

During the past year, I've cramped so bad that I throw up. That is getting more frequent.

Does anybody else have IBS to this point?

If so, what do you do for it?

 

I've had my gut really hate me.

I have NO idea what caused it, and what caused it to stop. Not to imply it's totally stopped - but reasonably so.

But weed has always calmed down any part of my digestive system that needed calming - of course, if you get the munchies and pig out, it has quite the opposite effect.

 

Half gallon of water every day .. religiously. Serious. Water is nearly medicinal in itself. I found that out after being so severely dehydrated I ended up in the emergency department (and yes, the dehydration effected my bowels).

 

I used to have it. Switching to a low-carb ketogenic diet completely cleared it up. Turns out refined carbs are terrible for healthy gut flora.

But if you're not willing to go that route, I suggest fermented foods (sauerkraut, kefir, yogurt), perhaps some apple cider vinegar (raw and unfiltered only) two or three times per day, and also a good probiotic.

It might also help to eliminate grains from your diet. I know that sounds extreme, but people who eliminate grains/gluten from their diet notice huge improvements in ther digestive health. Dairy (especially milk) is also a known culprit in causing IBS with a lot of people.

So me, personally, the first thing I would recommend to a person is eliminating certain things from their diet that are known to cause these problems. I'd start by eliminating gluten. If that doesn't work, you might try eliminating dairy as well and see if things clear up. I am almost willing to guarantee they will. The problem is people don't like to make sacrifices to benefit their health by giving up foods they like.

The bottom line is it's all about your diet. If you have IBS, it's because of your diet -- nothing more, nothing less.

 

While I like carbs too much to do this in any complete way, I have actually greatly cut back recently, and it did, indeed, greatly improve my digestive health and comfort.

 

Good video here.... sums it up fairly well, but kind of reiterates what I said in the post above, albeit in slightly more detail.

http://youtu.be/T7O8xtRNhJY

 

Another thing that causes my gut to hate me is hot stuff. After all, part of our natural reason for eating it seems to be as an anti-parasitic purgative. But I like it too much to make any real change there

 

I second cutting out gluten.
I noticed positive results within two days.
Plus since eliminating it from my diet I have lost about 90lbs

 

What sets me off is insoluble fiber, so I have to eat a larger percentage of soluble fiber when I eat insoluble fiber.

Also, I have to be really careful of eating any fruit or vegetable raw/uncooked.

The sulfur-containing vegetables (garlic, onions, leeks, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, asparagus, and Brussels sprouts) are the worst for me.

I've lived with this my whole adult life but the vomiting is fairly recent.

 

I'll look for that yogurt, Skip.

 

I've never had this problem with eggs, But I am very picky when it comes to eggs, and eat only ones that are from a truly pastured source where the chickens are actually free ranging. I don't even mess around with the so-called "cage free" eggs the grocery stores sells. But the salmonella thing, as far as I know, has always been overblown. Perhaps it was different at one time, but I don't recall, being younger than you. I regularly eat raw eggs, and have been doing this for almost two years now and have not gotten sick once. The chances of getting salmonella from eggs, according to the CDC's own statistics, are approximately 1 in 10,000 eggs. The chances are even less when you eat organic, cage free eggs because the chickens and eggs weren't once covered in shit, as is the case with factory farm eggs, where you have cage after cage stacked on top of one another. Instances of salmonella in eggs from free range chickens are almost unheard of.

 

Ugh... I had never even given thought to foods being irradiated.

Irradiation damages the natural digestive enzymes found in raw foods. This means the body has to work harder to digest them.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/Irrad/irradfact.cfm

 

I'm really pissed about this irradiation business.

I ate a plum. Let me run eat some soluble fiber.

 

Its likely it wasnt cutting out the gluten that was the reason for the weight loss, would have been cutting out foods at the same time that helped you stay addicted to carbs and sugar.

Gluten free is so trendy nowadays, but its obnoxious

 

It does seem to be.

 

Because "gluten free" is trendy, does not make gluten any less bad. Unfotunately, the gluten free fad is being used to market a lot of processed junk food that is no healthier than gluten itself. My idea of a gluten free diet is a whole food diet free of grains. Low carb diets were gluten free long before "gluten free" was even coined.

 

rocking back and forth helps