What do other IBS sufferers use as treatment?
David August 15th, 2007
I’ve had IBS for 4 years and have been on Zelnorm previously. I’m at point again where I can begin a new treatment and I’m looking to hear from other IBS patients on what they use or do. I’ve read a lot about using certain homeopathic treatments (such as herbs, psychiatrists and chiropracters). Basically I want to hear what everyone else uses and how well it works for them personally.
I have IBS with severe bloating, pressure pain, constapation and diarrea all complicated by menstrual cycle and stress.
I have tried the diet and it doesn’t work at all for me.
Once again I need to point out that I tried the diet for almost a year all that it caused was major constipation to the point that I had to be hospitalized to relieve it.
Thank you for the suggestions in this area though.
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I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome also. I don’t use any medical drugs I have learned how to eat to stop the symptoms. First off you have to eliminate all fats. Fat is a big trigger food.
As a general rule, the grain and cereal foods at the top of this list make the safest, easiest, and most versatile soluble fiber foundations for your meals and snacks.
Rice, Pasta and noodles, Oatmeal, Barley, Fresh white breads such as French or sourdough (NOT whole wheat or whole grain)* Rice cereals, Flour tortillas, Soy, Corn meal, Potatoes, Carrots, Yams, Sweet potatoes, Turnips, Beets, Squash and pumpkins, Mushrooms, Chestnuts, Avocados (though they do have some fat), Bananas, Applesauce, Mangoes, Papayas (also digestive aids that relieve gas and indigestion)
*Please choose a baked-daily, high quality, preservative-free brand. White bread does not mean Wonder.
stay all way from high fiber foods until you learn how to eat correctly for this condition. I’m enclosing a link to a website that has the best information on how to take care of this condition that I have ever found.
i suffer with i b s my doctor gave me fybogel mebervine which is powder missed in water good not pleasent taste it eastist the pain should eat plenty of fruit and veg
It sounds like the diet was wrong. See this site for good diet and why. Then go to healing depression page and see how a guy got rid of Chrohn’s disease which is worse than IBS. Avoid drugs.
Take probiotics. Also fasting gives your bowel a vacation and it can heal itself. The best food for you is carrots. Also drink carrot juice (you can buy the powder and add it to juice or supermarkets have the Bolthouse Farms healthy juices). Also take greens drinks which you can learn about on page on nutrition.
Dr Walker healed many with IBS using carrot juice. One case out of 40,000 was so awful he had the guy consume only carrot juice for a year. Dr Norman Walker lived until 114. Here is Wikipedia on Walker
i am 24 yrs old and have had IBS since i was 18….the doctors have tried so many different things i thought i wasnt gonna make it…. finally they put me on dicyclomine and it cures the bad sharp pain i was getting…the pain was so bad it would bring be to the floor… but it still didnt fix my eating problem..no matter what i still throw up and cant eat anything… i have tried all kinds of different foods…i have any seafood sits well on the tummy… i still take my dicyclomine down to once a day before bed because it does make you tired…and then i watch what i eat…no coffee because that is the BIG no no… i had no attacks for 2 months and then i had to get up early for a road trip and a very long long day and i was very tired and forgot my meds and got a white coffee…no more then 20 minutes and i was down for the count… with no meds i had to turn to teas…and they do help….i LOVE licorice root tea and helps alot!! actually you should read about the root and how it helps yout tummy and your digestive track… i find sweets are hard but if you have to give into a food that you know might hurt always eat SMALL portions and try and to some sort of excercise like yoga is my favorite! i hope this helps and this fight makes your stronger…. i really didnt think i was gonna make it…im not healthy right now and my doctors are working on getting me better because after all of the IBS pain and always getting sick i no longer have a good diet and cant eat without getting sick and throwing up so im down to 5 handfull meals a day and its hard….breakfast is the hardest and try to remember keep a high fiber diet… so eat some non geased hashbrowns and and egg white with half the yolk out… milk is no longer your friend neither is icecream…i have taking a likeing to sorbet and that sort…fruit smoothies in place of the milkshake…its hard i do have a little milk here…again hope this helps and if i get any new ways that helps i will throw them out..