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Answer by SnuffySmith
IBS is not caused by chlorine in the water. It is caused by an imbalance of the fluids secreted in your intestine. When there is diarrhea your body is letting go too much water and when you are constipated your body is not letting go enough water. The best thing believe it or not is fiber for IBS symptoms. The fiber binds to the water in diarrhea and it also helps with constipation. Also IBS is a long time problem for those that suffer from it. It is not a one time episode. Good luck.

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okay well you probirly need to tell your doctor that you have ibs and that you think its cuz of the meds and if he gives you some more and it stil isnt working go to a diffrent doctor

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Answer by cyn_texas
That’s quite possible that you have a food allergy. I’d suggest you go back to low carb and slowly go through the reintroduction of carbs to identify what specifically is your problem.

During the first 2 weeks, you can have several cups of salads. Jicama, cucumber, celery & radish marinated in sesame oil & hot pepper flakes with rice wine vinegar & artificial sweetener. Make a stir fry with Bok Choy, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, celery, mushrooms, shirataki noodles & your fav meats. I love eggs and could eat deviled eggs every day. You can smother omelets & meats with mushrooms & peppers & cheese. Meatzza – Meatloaf with pizza toppings (pepperoni, mushrooms, peppers, mozzarella) I prefer very thin sausage patties fried crispy with pizza toppings. Pork rinds & celery sticks are great crunch and can be eaten with dips (avocado/mayo/cayenne is my fav) & tuna/chicken/turkey/egg salads. I love love love my rotisserie and it makes the meats extra tasty. I cook a turkey every couple of months and make soup with the bones (add vinegar to leach minerals) and turkey salads. I’ll cube up some turkey meat mix in a couple of raw eggs add cheese (and broccoli after induction) with cayenne powder & nuke a couple of minutes for nearly instant meal. Flax seed should be eaten 2T daily even in induction.

Ground flax seed (2-3 Tbsp) 1/4 cup of water, cinnamon, artificial sweetener, mix in a raw egg – let sit 10 min to absorb liquid, put some cream cheese in the middle and nuke for 1.5 min. for hot cereal or 2 min. for more of a muffin type thing. Great low carb, high fiber treat.

After the 2 week induction, you add 5 grams of carbs per day every week and add a much greater variety of non starchy vegetables. Change your mindset – eat what you like to eat, just adapt it to low carb -
replace bread with lettuce
replace pasta with cabbage
replace rice with cauliflower
replace potatoes with brocolli
I eat all my favorite Chinese, Italian, even Mexican foods with low carb foods. Cabbage makes an excellent pasta substitute (for me) Make a lasagna with blanched cabbage leaves & thinly fried eggplant instead of noodles. Sugar free pasta sauce over fried cabbage. My fav is chicken cacciatore, I add greens & flaxseed or chia seed for body and also add pizza toppings – pepperoni, mushrooms, lots of mozzarrella. Alfredo sauce is also low carb.

I don’t cook often. I usually make huge batches of food & freeze most of it. I cook meats 20-30# at a time (for just me) I have gone into the forums for recipes (especially when I first started low carb) I was shocked that fried “rice” made with grated cauliflower tasted just like it’s name sake. Shirataki noodles are traditional in Japanese sukiyaki and low carb. I’ve heard faux mashed “taters” made with cauliflower & cream cheese can fool non low carbers. “potato” salad using cauliflower instead.

Hope I’ve given you a start, I just don’t cook much but many recipes abound. Adapt what you’ve always eaten first (I bet someone has a recipe for it or low carb version) and then start exploring.

Chia seeds sound so expensive but 1# will make 10# food (when you can splurge some – Amazon.com has couple lbs. for $ 16 shipped to you.

I also order off Amazon – Lowrey’s Pork Rinds 18 for $ 15 – they pop like popcorn and are portion controlled.

Faux tapioca – 2 cups of water, 5 scoops of low carb whey protein powder, stir together & add cup of chia seeds, after they have started to absorb the water, add in 2 cans of coconut milk (or cream and added water during induction) & artificial sweetener if you like and mix it all in. Can be eaten after an hour but will be better tomorrow. Cream a pkg. of cream cheese into a can of pumpkin and add to the faux tapioca for an even more nutritious pumpkin pie pudding.

(berries are lowest glycemic) Cheesecake – strawberry ice cream (frozen berries, cream, a stick blender) – pork rinds great crunch – i eat lots of fish for snack (fish “steaks” or mackerel in tins are favs)- avocado/mayo/cayenne dip – olives

Pumpkin soup
* 1 (12 ounce) package Jimmy Dean sausage
* 1/2 cup onion, minced
* 1 garlic clove, minced
* 1 tablespoon italian seasoning
* 1-2 cup fresh mushrooms, chopped
* 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
* 4 cups chicken broth
* 1/2 cup heavy cream
* 1/2 cup water

Directions
1.Brown sausage, drain, then add the onion, garlic, Italian seasoning and mushrooms and sauté until done.
2. Add pumpkin to this mixture and mix well.
3.Then stir in the broth and mix well.
4. Simmer 20-30 minutes.
5. Stir in the heavy cream and water and simmer on low another 10-15 minute Taste and add salt& pepper as needed.

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BTW I’m an 18 year old male w/ no family history of colorectal cancer. I work out every other day and a month ago my blood work came back totally normal.

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Answer by edgebuddy07
eat a healthy diet and it will go back to normal

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The depressive symptoms themselves are hard to live with, but not completely disabling. I’m nearly always sad and pessimistic, and it takes quite a lot for me to enjoy myself. I have ridiculously low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and emptiness seem to dominate my life. I have goals, but I’m hardly enthusiastic about them and they seem nearly impossible for me to fulfill. I also self-injure quite frequently, although I am not suicidal.

What is most bothersome, however, are my physical symptoms. I constantly suffer from vague aches and pains that have no obvious medical explanation, and I am afflicted with chronic, horrible insomnia. I function on 2-5 hours of sleep a night, or, often, none at all. This causes me to live in a constant state of mental and physical exhaustion, and it is taking a huge toll on my health; I’m much more susceptible to infections, and when they hit, they hit hard because my poor immune system is plum tuckered out.

Two months ago, I started taking Prozac. I didn’t feel any better, and my IBS worsened; I couldn’t have a bowel movement without the use of a laxative. The constipation was very painful and very disabling, and was my main reason for discontinuing the drug (I also slept a lot more but still felt tired all the time, had bizarre, vivid dreams, felt restless and jittery, lost some weight and had frequent nosebleeds, but I could have lived with those).

Two weeks ago, I went off the Prozac and started on Celexa. The side effects were terrible. I felt like I had the flu; I was constantly vomiting and had frequent diarrhea. I couldn’t stand up without feeling like I was going to pass out. My insomnia returned full force, I began self-injuring more severely and more frequently, and I experienced some mild paranoia. (e.g., I’m arachnophobic, so I’d worry about a huge spider crawling in my bed; I wouldn’t be able to find my cat, so I’d worry that she somehow got outside and got hit by a car; I’d think that the noise from the heater was actually a burglar breaking in, etc.) I also had no appetite at all, and although I did force myself to eat, I lost nearly ten pounds on the medication, and I am now significantly underweight. Losing any more weight could be very dangerous. I have begun to wean myself off the medication, and I’m wondering where to go from here.

I could go back on Prozac. It helped me sleep, and, who knows, the constipation could go away if I stick with the medication this time. My psychiatrist recommends that I try Zoloft next, as it’s supposedly the most helpful SSRI for dysthymic patients, but I’m hesitant to try another SSRI as I reacted so badly to the other ones I’ve taken. One drug I stumbled across that sounds very attractive to me is Remeron. The most common “side effects”: increased appetite, weight gain, and hypersomnia sound more like benefits than side effects to me! My depression makes it hard to eat, and the Celexa makes it nearly impossible to do so. Actually wanting to pig out on a bunch of fattening foods is almost a foreign feeling to me. I’d love to enjoy food again. And, of course, being a chronic insomniac, the idea of sleeping like a log seems like heaven to me. I haven’t mentioned it to my shrink yet, though, and I don’t personally know anyone who’s taken this drug. I feel as if I don’t know it well enough to make an informed decision about it.

Have any of you tried Remeron or Zoloft? Should I try one of those, or just go back to Prozac? Anyone know of any other antidepressants that might help (it must come in a liquid, chewable, or dissolvable form because I cannot swallow pills)?

Sorry this is so long, and thanks in advance!

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Answer by Janesays
Maybe Wellbutrin. I’m not sure how often it’s prescribed. It’s an SNRI non habit forming. Also, excercise and lots of water helps me with ummm digestive issues. I often use stool softeners vs. laxitives. Be sure to drink lots of water. It’s hard to enjoy food on Wellbutrin right away but then you get back into eating healthy after it builds in your system.

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Anything else you think I should know would greatly help. SERIOUS answers only please. Thank you for your help!

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1) most if not all–and more

the problem is that if you press an inch off you won’t hit it–you need to moive your finger withing a1 inch radius to be sure you have the right spot

scratching an itch can make me fall over in excrutiating pain

2) shoulders

3) the TENDERPOINTS aren’t supposed to be constant pain-mine hurt when pressed

4) severe ache

5) widespread pain is a hallmark of fms-technically to have chronic pain in all areas of tehbody (upper, lower, left, right, back, front)

I mostly have joint pain (as fms can affect ligamenst and tendons too) –down to my toes. Knees are the worst, followed by hips-with muscle soreness in arms being 3rd

6) have had migrain like headaches, stiffness though out the day (after sitting at the computer),

7) memoery problems, numbness, tingling, twitching, non restorative sleep, severe exhaustion, klutzy-hard to get my hands to do what I want (motor planning difficulties)
deep ache-sometimes sharp

9) tri cylcics, SSRI SNRI, other antidepressants, muscle relaxants, NSAIDS, narcotics, anti seizure, acupuntuncture, chiropractic, PT, pychological therapy, direct electrical stimultaion, vagus nerve stimulator, sedatives, stimulants–no pills or PT worked at all

10)
Don’t call it arthritis,inflammatory, a nutrional probelm, a pychological problem, autoimmune–it is none of these

Understand that it is a neuro disorder

Don’t label any pain from an overactive lifestyle or anotehr condition as FMS–it is it’s own condition–that while it can co occur with otehr things—is NOT a lablel for the pain of other diseases like arthritis, brain tumors, etc.

Watch out for quackery–there are many conditions that mimic FMS-such as thick body fluids or a liver problem–but that is NOT REAL FMS.

I am the boss-not you–I am paying you for a service–but I am in control-I will not bow to you. Decisions are mine-not yours

Don’t walk out of teh room whenI try to talk to you–respect my opinions.

Don’t say
“you’re fine stay active”

I’ve heard this repeatedly-when it turned out -I had anotehr condition-1st Mono, 2nd post concussive syndrome

TELL ME things–don’t assume it won’t matter to me-I have a righ to know everything-

tell me of side effects–and MONITOR for them–i have been seriously harmed by side effects that I was NOT warned of (not even on teh pharmacy pamphlet) such as passing out from by blood pressure dropping

realize that many people dioagnosedwith FMS don’t actually haveit–they have another condition–but many docs label any pain as FMS without proper diagnostics procedures

there are studies that show probloems withblood profusin intehbrain as well as differences with neurotrasmitters–

if Icould get it (and afford i) i would take viagra (I am female) to help with the brian blood profusion–there is a study of viagra’s use in CFIDS to reduce fatigue in california

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Answer by Amanda
I’m really not sure about your question.
I am having a laproscopy next Monday to determine whether I have endo.
I have asked questions about it on here but no one seems to answer what I am asking. How do you feel after the surgery and how long does it take until you feel better?
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All sarcasm aside, what makes conservatives so angry?

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Answer by TheBuffalo
Liberal ignorance.

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Also, the drowsiness would make me oversleep, miss school, fail a test, fighting to stay awake, etc. I have my BA in Spanish, & my Vocational Rehab. counselor refuses to help me, & she closed my case behind my back without telling me. I made a grievance, & the grievance lady agreed with the counselor. I want to work, but my disability & medications, & people discriminating & pre-judging, are ALL what’s holding me back from getting a job. Also lack of transportation. & I can’t take just any job. My disability may be mental, but I need special accommodations to work alone in a quiet office or something, since I get distracted easily & have trouble concentrating & focusing.

I feel so hopeless right now. What can I do? I can’t stand on my feet past 30 minutes, & I can’t work in noisy environments. I have some computer skills, & whatever skills I don’t have, I can go back & learn it. I’m brushing up on my Spanish skills & trying to learn French, as well.

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Answer by Gardener for God (formerly dmd)
I look forwaard to viewing any substanced answers you may receive. My son has very similar disabilities, nearly identical. He is only in Jr. High – but it will help me to gain insight of what we may face.

I have to wonder – did they take you off of disabilitiy via government? Where you on disability via the gorvernment? You sound as if you should be eligable – AND – you would be able to make an additional amount of money in working aside from this program.

With regards to your disabilities – you do not have to tell your disabilities in the interview process I believe and with regards to being fired for being late or absent, sleepy, etc. because of your issues, I don’t believe they can give you a bad reference for it. There is possibility that they are in error for terminating your job due to it as well as if they give you a bad reference for it – a possible legal action could be taken I believe. The best thing you should do is to contact a disability lawyer and ask these very things and find out where you stand and what they are allowed to do. There ARE laws as to what they can tell about you as a reference and also as to what they can even ask you in an interview.

Once hired – there are also laws that say your employer must accomodate your disabilities.

It has been a good 8 years since I worked in Human Resources, so there may have been new or changed laws to take effect. Go to a disability lawyer to get informed and/or also, find a job coach to help – they are very well versed in employment law and could also be a great help for you.

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He does fine on beef and chicken, pasta, potatoes and rice. But what kind of things do I need to add to be sure he is getting a balanced diet?
I meant nine pound Yorkie, typo.

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Answer by Laurie V
This website has some great information on homemade dog food. It also has several links for recipes. Hopefully, you will find it helpful. Good luck!

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/dogfoodrecipes.htm

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