Why eating fruit cures my IBS...

Mate, no offense, I read your "about Me" section and you do not have IBD. Your GI symptoms don't even sound like IBD: However, I have experienced a decade of chronic constipation that alternates with bouts of bowel movements that border on diarrhea (at times on a daily basis). I pass blood and mucous during flare-ups

The first sentence sounds like classic IBS. As for the second sentence, the blood can easily be explained by the "horrendous hemorrhoids".

Don't get me wrong. I believe all your symptoms are real enough. But you sound like you have a problem with severe allergies and food intolerances; again, that's not IBD. You shouldn't be making out like you have an inflammatory disease when you don't. It's a bit disrespectful to those of us who do have IBD and have suffered badly from its destructive inflammation as a result.

Post Edited (NiceCupOfTea) : 6/7/2014 4:09:56 PM (GMT-6)

I just altered the post title on this forum too. *slinks away with tail between legs* !! :)

Ack, now I feel a tad guilty... >_>

To be fair, the symptoms of IBS and IBD can overlap to quite a large degree, and even journalists have been known to confuse the two. IBS = Irritable Bowel Syndrome and IBD = Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In IBS, there is no visible inflammation in the intestines, but in the latter there is usually inflammation and ulceration.

When people say IBD they are usually referring to UC or Crohn's disease, though there are others too, like microscopic colitis, infectious colitis, etc.

I was in fact wondering if you might have microscopic colitis after your experiences with antibiotics. (And, indeed, microscopic inflammation has been found in some people with IBS). It can be diagnosed with biopsies from a colonoscopy. But MC also presents mainly with watery, non-bloody diarrhoea...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891975?dopt=Abstract

Still may be worth looking into, but I suspect you "just" have IBS, with various food intolerances, allergies etc. It sucks being ill, that's for sure; I can sympathise with that :-/

Edit: Woah, thanks for actually listening and not taking offense; my respect for you has gone up. Here's to good health for the future :p

@nicecupoftea:

Haha!

Don't worry about it, mate.

My bad. The last thing I should be spending my time on at the moment is a website about my toiteting habits. I do get chronic intestinal inflammation but mostly only in the lower bowel. And occasionally I get some mucus-filled diarrhoea. But that's only on those particularly bad days where I kinda just hold the toilet walls out with my arms to ease the shredding sensation! Possibly a left over from the dysentery I once had, I suspect.

Anyway, I didn't remove the site because of your comment alone. I was definitely in the wrong forum and it's time I pulled my head in.

I've got no issues with admitting I was wrong. I just don't want bad info (written by me) existing out there. And especially if it perpetuates a wrong.

Oh crap, he has taken the whole site down.

@Chris - I hope you're gonna put your site back up. From what I saw of it, you were not setting out to mislead or swindle anybody. The 'IBD' was clearly an innocent mistake. As far as FMT is concerned, there are a few discussion topics on the UC board if you want to seek them out. It's not exactly a mainstream treatment, but there is a quite well-known doctor in Australia who does FMT. If you google Thomas Borody, you'll find him.

Would say more, but braindead...

Just took the kids out to a car show. Man, I really can't stand being around people! The worst offenders being my bloody kids.


Anyway, I went through the site and tried to skew it towards its original purpose ie, A DIY How-To on Fecal Transplant Pills. Of course, I'm leaving in my personal progress after the treatment to let people know if this current feeling of relief is a placebo or if it really is a possible solution.

I've also taken down the 'fruit' post and attempted to remove all references about IBD.

Truth is, I had no intention of being on this UC board. I only stumbled on it during a Google search for FMT and I thought I'd tell the thread starter that I'd just done a Fecal Transplant Pill treatment at home. Then I put up my 'procedure'. Then I decided to do it properly by placing pics on a website. Then I thought I better give some background. Then I thought I should try and give people some update data. I should have just left it at the forum reply. Oh, well.

At any rate, I had read a lot of good reports about FMT for UC and Crohn's sufferers. So hopefully my experience with the Fecal Pill will provide a possible 'maybe' option for others.

As for the personal IBD diagnosis... I certainly have some of those symptoms, most notably the colon inflammation and some pretty weird mucus stuff, but outside that I'm certainly more aligned with the IBS crowd. I do feel silly for unintentionally being misleading. I always thought the IBS symptoms were IBD and UC and Crohn's were the next level up. Anyway, I guess it's better to get any additional info out there, however misguided ... at least it can be fine tuned to become more relevant. Hopefully I've done that.

Cheers to you all and I hope you find good health.

Chris


Edit: Removed some details about loved ones that was not particularly relevant.

Post Edited (CoastalChris) : 6/8/2014 5:14:18 AM (GMT-6)

Man, I really can't stand being around people!

I feel you on this one.

And, yeah, if you want to hang around on HW to talk about poop, feel free to, honestly. Heck I don't have UC either (my diagnosis was Crohn's), but it doesn't stop me from posting where I am not wanted :p