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Posted 2/13/2011 6:05 AM (GMT 0)
Hey everyone!!!,hope you all are well and blessed!,just wanted to come through and vent some.My system has been off wack for awhile cause I've gone off my usual diet of beans and veggies for dinner.I have not been eating that healthy lately,my diet has been containing cheeseburgers,fried chicken,lasagne,and french fries.My bms have been a few times a day but it's mainly pebble like stools again.I hate those ones cause I keep having to go back and forth to my bathroom to move those pebbles sometimes just one other times just two then at times a couple of them in a bunch.I've been eating a lot and I would think my stools would just come out as long healthy formed stools or s shaped ones.I dont understand what's going on with my intestines for this to be happening!!! This is when I start getting bothered and thinking a lot that my system is so different.Thats why I'm afraid to go out without having to use my bathroom first to make sure I've moved my bms for the day.It's so frustrating cause my thoughts are on why this happens so much and I just worry myself over this issue.

 

I just wish and pray that my stools would be long healthy ones everytime I have a bowel movement.I would just like to have just two a day and not having frequent trips back to my bathroom.I dont understand why this bothers me so much no yes I know why.I wish I could stop worrying about my bowel habits these thoughts are becoming obssessive and I hate that!!! I pray tomorrow is a better day and I'll just pray to God that he'll help me stop having obssessive thoughts about my bowel habbits I have not prayed for that yet.Well guys I hope you all are doing good! and pray that things are getting better for you! Till next post wishing you all good healthy stomach and digestive health. xoxoxoxo :-)

Posted 12/18/2011 8:38 PM (GMT 0)
I certainly know what you mean about having be concerned constantly about whether you'll have a BM that day, or when it will be or what it will be like. I've been like that for over 30 years. Each morning I try to keep to a schedule, trying to get up around the same time very day, and so on....it's never the same. Good luck.
Posted 12/19/2011 1:17 AM (GMT 0)
jt - if there's anything I've discovered on this IBS-like path I'm stuck on (from having had a colon resection, etc.) is that my colon is anything but predictable. Just when I have something figured out, it no longer works as well for me. Or if I'm having a string of very good days, I know a bad one is coming soon. Some might say that's a pessimistic way to view the situation but I'd have to differ with them, by saying no if I expect a bad day that's realistic. Not pessimistic at all. I just hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

I just no longer trust my gut to do what I want it to. It has a mind of its own.
Posted 1/1/2012 12:25 PM (GMT 0)
I've suffered with IBS symptoms & anxiety my whole adult life. I found Gluten Free diet in the last few years has helped tremendously & I have loads of energy, no constipation, pain, wind, mucus in stools (sorry grose I know) 20 years later I've been diagnosed with Helicobacter (why the Doctors didn't check for that when I first started getting chronic diarrhoea, cramps, weight loss etc I don't know).

My Dad's always had stomach problems, we thought it was a genetic bad stomach. He recently had a breath test & confirmed he had Helicobacter, people living together catch it off each other & I had a blood test to confirm I have it. I've had a course of antibiotics but don't feel they have worked as I don't feel any different. I feel a lot better from eating a gluten free (regular painless BM's, not anaemic etc) , low dairy diet and avoiding Vinegar & tomatoes have stopped the diarrhoea. I need to fast & do a breath test to see if it the bacteria is still present. But I recommend anyone who is having tummy troubles, constipation, diarrhoea, anaemia, infertility, miscarriage, anxiety, depression, angry outburts, moodswings, low energy get tested for Helicobacter Pylori ASAP. Its bacterial & so easily contracted, I wouldn't be surprised if 50-80% of the population have it. Good luck!
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