bad guts / bowels

CrevisbigX

Member
Location
Cheshire
Wel today was the day i went for the camera down
Got a hernia
Imflamtion to my lower throat cant spell its real name
and had 2 biopses taken from my gut
The joy
to top it off got a fudgeing parking ticket aswel

Fine at the mo a little tender inside but nowt to write home about
Yourself?
Take it easy have a endoscopy every 12mths not a pleasent expeirence.
 

Andrew1983

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Black Isle
I have also suffered from IBS for going on 20 years, I have controlled it with Imodium but it's been a disability at times, plenty things I have missed out on because of fear of being caught short. I won't go on bus trips etc and get wound up if I know I can't get to a toilet (even if I would otherwise be fine).

It's unreal how quick it can hit you! I could write a book about some of the things Iv had to do to make it to a toilet or at least cover over the years!!

When I get really bad stomach cramps with it I find going for a hot bath actually helps.

The other thing that I have discovered fairly recently is buscopan IBS relieve tablets, I don't think they work the same way as Imodium in stopping the runs but they do settle the cramps.
 

Guto

Member
I have also suffered from IBS for going on 20 years, I have controlled it with Imodium but it's been a disability at times, plenty things I have missed out on because of fear of being caught short. I won't go on bus trips etc and get wound up if I know I can't get to a toilet (even if I would otherwise be fine).

It's unreal how quick it can hit you! I could write a book about some of the things Iv had to do to make it to a toilet or at least cover over the years!!

When I get really bad stomach cramps with it I find going for a hot bath actually helps.

The other thing that I have discovered fairly recently is buscopan IBS relieve tablets, I don't think they work the same way as Imodium in stopping the runs but they do settle the cramps.
Good on you for speaking out $ha99er. Not easy when most see it as an embarrassing problem. Feel for you.
 

Alicecow

Member
Location
Connacht
The other thing that I have discovered fairly recently is buscopan IBS relieve tablets, I don't think they work the same way as Imodium in stopping the runs but they do settle the cramps.


Buscopan is a muscle relaxant, smooth muscle if my memory serves me correctly. It is given via injection during bowel examinations, eg barium enemas.
 

Goweresque

Member
Location
North Wilts
As someone who suffered from IBS type symptoms for nearly 20 years, and now has a pretty solid digestion, I would suggest anyone who suffers from IBS investigate a thing called Candida Gut Infestation.

Basically candida is a yeast thats naturally in our guts, along with lots of bacteria, and in normal conditions they all keep each other in check. However if you either knock out the bacteria (by taking a heavy course antibiotics for example ) and/or overdo the amount of sweet stuff and carbohydrate you eat, then the yeast can become the dominant factor in your gut. It feeds on sugars, and in doing so produces immense amounts of gas, and also secretes digestive byproducts which are acidic, which cause the gut wall muscles to tense and contract, giving terrible stomach cramps at times, and a feeling that your guts are 'alive' at others. It can make you constipated one minute and have diarrhoea the next. I had all these symptoms for years, and could never work out what was causing it - I tried eliminating different foods but could never seem to hit any one thing that caused the problems, until I eliminated all carbs from my diet and the symptoms disappeared. I lived on that diet for while, which was a bit dull, but infinitely better than having IBS.

I then happened to read about Candida, which seemed to tick all the boxes for my former symptoms. I did a bit more research and read that although there are drugs one can take to control candida, one could also treat it with oil of oregano, which is the natural oil extracted from the oregano plant. Its a natural bactericide and fungicide. You don't need much, its powerful stuff. I took a few drops per day for about 2 weeks. After a week or so I passed what can only be described as a green sludge, which I take was the fungal body of the yeast infestation, that had been killed off. It then took about 2-3 months for my guts to improve, as the good bacteria levels got back to a normal level.

I now have no IBS symptoms at all. I can now eat carbs again, with no great problems, occasionally I over do them (I do have sweet tooth) and the IBS symptoms start to reappear, and a few days of drops of oregano oil settles things down again. I have to remind myself how bad things were back then (its been 8 years since I first heard about candida), because its easy to forget how all consuming bad guts can be, and what a negative effect they have on ones life.

I just offer this as my experience - I can't pretend to have any great medical knowledge, I just know what I've read, and done, and how things have improved for me out of all recognition. Do your own research and make your own decisions, but please give it some thought, its certainly transformed my life.
 

Juggler

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Just discovered this thread, I've had IBS for years, stress definitely plays a huge part.
Thanks for the candida reference @Goweresque that sounds like it might be what's bugging me.
 

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