IBS Tales

And yes, they’re all real (with a bit of poetic licence thrown in…) Number one: “I have IBS. Please send me a list of the foods that I can eat.” Number two: “I have diarrhea and am in a lot of pain but I haven’t seen the doctor. Do you think this sounds like IBS?” [...]

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I thought it might be useful to do a quick post just summarising the treatment I have been using recently – and which, after six weeks, continues to work perfectly. Yep, that’s right, I haven’t had the slightest touch of IBS for six weeks now, and while half my brain can’t believe that it’s gonna [...]

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Number one – the Agoniser This is the absolute worst kind of IBS pain because, well, it’s the absolute worst kind of any kind of pain I have ever had the privilege to feel. The Agoniser tends to last for around an hour all told. It starts slowly, with a few stomach cramps and gurgles, [...]

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Out of all the treatments available for IBS, perhaps the most consistently successful treatment in terms of clinical trials is hypnotherapy. There have been at least 10 trials which show that hypnotherapy can be a useful treatment for IBS, and I’ve heard many personal stories from people who have been helped by this treatment. This, [...]

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Some of the most striking research done on IBS in the past few years has focused on the idea of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO). The basic idea behind this theory is that IBS symptoms are caused by an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine. The bacteria produce high levels of hydrogen or methane [...]

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I think I should probably stop insulting doctors for a while, because as fun as it is it’s not very positive, and in fact it doesn’t really fit with my own health at the moment and my current, sympathetic nutritionist. For about the past two and a half weeks I have been distinctly, eerily well. [...]

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