Posted 3/27/2012 8:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hi. I'm looking for help for my girlfriend. She's been having gastro issues for some time. The primary symptoms are:
- anal fissures and hemmerhoids causing painful bowel movements
- serious gas issues as well as abdominal pain if she eats any foods that cause her gas
- most foods cause her distress. she can't eat ANY fats at all without a day or two of diarrhea. she can't eat ANY fruits, any vegetables with seeds, any brassica veggies (cabbage, etc no gluten, no rough grains (quinoa, unprocessed brown rice etc) She eats primarily sweet potatoes, certain kinds of veggies (well cooked only), rice flour biscuits, skinless chicken and fish. There might be a couple more things but that's about it. Any variation from this can cause literally days of distress.
- even with this limited diet she usually has to go to the bathroom 8-10 times a day at least. usually only a little comes out a time. We believe that this may be caused by fissure(s) which have irritate the lower descending color causing an inability to hold poo.This of course is causing pain in her anus which is pretty much 24 hours a day at this point.
She's gone to a regular doctor but they are insisting on a colonscopy and she's reluctant because of fissures, hemerroids etc. She went to a naturopath who prescribed some things but with little result.
She takes tons of enzymes and probiotics, as well as many digestion helping herbs.
If anyone has any ideas, we are getting quite desperate.
thanks,
-john