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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2012 12:14:31 GMT
My lovely wife is suffering a fair bit with this at present.
Any suggestions of alleviation would be more than welcome.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 13:10:20 GMT
I'll have to look it up, because I have never been sure exactly what is meant by that term.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 13:13:12 GMT
Hmmm, it looks like it is a bit of everything mixed together at random.  That's why I wasn't sure "exactly" what it meant. |
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2012 13:35:27 GMT
I've looked at various internet suggestions which are sometimes contradictory and obviously some bits are copied from other sites. They are of some use but anybody with practical experience of coping with it would be invaluable.
She's pretty miserable with it.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 12, 2012 15:39:48 GMT
Hi Mick - I can only tell you what I had to take many years ago for a tummy problem (so long ago I cant recall the exact problem) but I was presribed KANTREXIL.
This is what I found on a website, which was a doctors answer to someone with severe tummy/bowel trouble.
"...should add is a probiotic three times a day and also take some Rehidrat to put back the salts you lost with the diarrhoea. If it persists, you could try Kantrexil which is a local antibiotic and stool firmer that does not get absorbed in the body but works only in the gut".
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 12, 2012 15:49:52 GMT
Thanks tod2. That's the sort of thing I need.
Our doctor is suggesting Valium as the next stage which she will avoid like the plague..............
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 13, 2012 21:24:13 GMT
mick, I am currently doing a BSc in Herbal medicine. This is the kind of things we can treat very well with herbs. maybe your wife would like to visit either a CPP or NIMH approved herbalist in your area?
The herbal world is small so I might even know the person!
There are many possible causes and symptoms of IBS and I wouldn't want to suggest anything without knowing more.
I am happy to give you pointers via pm or email if you wish me to, but as you and K2 noted above, it is not a straightforward illness to say the least.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 19, 2012 12:20:46 GMT
Thanks aa.
She is over it now but we'll see how she goes.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 23, 2012 9:47:44 GMT
good to read this, Mick!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 19:21:55 GMT
I always wonder if it is "something you ate" or a passing bacterial event. I am ultra lucky because I seem to have an overdeveloped immune system. I'm the sort of person who can drink sewer water from the canals of Jakarta and not get sick (98% of the time -- but I also have tales I can tell about the other 2% of the time). In both Cambodia and Vietnam, I was told by locals "we can have ice cubes but you can't," and I remained in perfect health when I demanded them anyway.
But I have known lots of people who take every precaution, when travelling or even in their own country, and who are constantly ill from either food or drink. I tend to think that a lot of it is psychosomatic, but I have no proof of this. I remember one guy who would get sick as a dog and puke his guts out all night if somebody said "I think the chicken was a bit pink." There could be ten other people at dinner, and he would be the only person who became ill.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 25, 2012 19:33:31 GMT
I'm certain being sick when travelling is far less to do with the food and/or water being 'bad' rather than it being different. Plus a lot of times I'd put it down to a bug caught on the flight out, the stresses and strains of being in an unfamiliar environment and travelling, the exposure suddenly to different weather etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 20:11:19 GMT
It is true that "different" water often seems to send the body of certain people into a panic, no matter how much you can prove that the water is not a risk. I don't know if it is all in the head of if it is the body that decides that certain suspicious minerals or chemicals must be expelled instantly.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 26, 2012 10:08:07 GMT
sure, K2 and MArk... but IBS is different from travelling sickness.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 27, 2014 18:11:25 GMT
My son has just been diagnosed with Crohns disease...poor lad has been ill since last summer, gradually becoming so incapacitated that he couldn't work. We were desperately worried because we didn't know what was wrong with him....he even tried going back to work in May and managed half days for 2 months. The occupational health department at his place of work decided that there was nothing wrong with him in July and told him that he'd have to go back to full time....he managed two days and then became really ill again. He's had an endoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, CT scan, ultrasound scan and loads of blood tests...but last week he had a colonoscopy and they found severe disease in his small bowel...confirming the diagnosis with biopsies.
Strangely...we feel better for knowing what is wrong. He has started treatment, we are hoping that he won't need surgery but if he does, he will cope and we will be there to support him. Onwards and upwards....
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 27, 2014 19:36:40 GMT
Oh, that's awful, Cheery! Dreadful to think he suffered all this time with no correct diagnosis. Please let us know how the treatment is going.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2014 19:44:36 GMT
Well, it's better to know than to just suspect.
I myself had bowel problems for about a month, but I just attributed it to the antibiotics that I took for my lung problem. I think they killed all of my intestinal flora and fauna and it took a few weeks for them to build up again and do what they're supposed to do.
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Post by htmb on Aug 27, 2014 20:30:57 GMT
Yes, Cheerie. Please keep us informed and best wishes for successful treatment. I certainly agree that it's always much better to have a diagnosis than to wonder what in the world might be the problem and to not know how to treat it.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 28, 2014 16:12:42 GMT
Yes antibiotics play havoc with our intestines....even anti-inflams cause one to know there is something significant happening in your belly...
Cheery I am so sorry to hear the news but wonder why it has taken so long to diagnose?
It seems he had all the right tests in the wrong order.
I am hoping that now they can fix it up pronto!
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Post by mossie on Aug 28, 2014 20:27:32 GMT
Deep sympathy Cheery, female relatives on my wife's side of the family suffer from this. Not good.
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Post by mossie on Aug 29, 2014 20:39:27 GMT
By coincidence today's Times has a story "Drug hopes for Crohn's patients" which refers to a new drug "vedolizumab"
Why do drugs always have such strange unpronounceable names? I use betamethasone and ask my doctor for "better methadone".
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Post by tod2 on Aug 31, 2014 9:09:43 GMT
Ha ha Mossie - said quickly sounds like "better medicine" with a lisp.....better medithin
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 5, 2014 18:56:40 GMT
 heehee.... Thanks for the support...not much in the way of an improvement yet I'm afraid, but sometimes it takes a while. At least we know what it is. |
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 19, 2015 14:15:58 GMT
Cracked it!
Aloe vera gel works. For 3 months she had barely a problem but then ran out about 10 days ago and tried Aloe vera liquid. Back to square 1 but Aloe vera gel ordered today and on the way.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 15, 2016 11:04:49 GMT
Doesn't even need Aloe Vera any more. Just the odd hiccup but no worse than that. Once it was every day.
Seems to have coincided with our house move. Odd or what.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 14, 2024 7:59:34 GMT
IBS flare ups are often associated with stressful situations Mick (altho not exclusively).
Our son has just been diagosed with Diabetes (T2 presumably). According to the doctor it's not unusual for crohns sufferers to develop diabetes. Poor lamb has been soooo ill over the weekend reacting badly to the drug prescribed..it exacerbates his crohns symptoms. The pharmacist said that the side effects should settle down but if he doesn't impove soon we will be looking for an emergency doctor. We will do a blood glucose test when he gets up...he's been up all night 'being ill' so we are letting him rest for now.
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Post by htmb on Apr 14, 2024 8:50:12 GMT
Sorry to hear this news, Cheery. It must be so frustrating.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 14, 2024 8:50:32 GMT
I'm pleased to say it's a rare problem these days Cheery.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 14, 2024 20:12:49 GMT
Today has been easier so far. I prepared all his food. I'm surprised that he hasn't been given much information or advice. No testing kits, nothing. He will be on a short online course...when there is a space. The Practice Pharmacist seems to view him as being just another middle aged person on a poor diet resulting in him developing T2 diabetes...not taking his crohns into account at all. In the old days our son would have seen by our GP at the surgery...but these days we just got the phone call. Very poor service, especially when one considers the state of his mental health. Trying to arrange an appointment with a NHS nutritionist.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 15, 2024 1:29:10 GMT
How extremely worrying and frustrating, Cheery!
I know that we're told not to trust in "Dr. Google", but maybe you can get some practical nutritional information while you're waiting for an appointment.
So sorry, Cheery. You must feel at your wits' end.
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Post by lugg on Apr 16, 2024 20:03:35 GMT
That is tough for your son Cheery ( and for you too) . Hope you get help soon
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heehee....