Right. This is my New Year’s resolution – that 15 years of IBS is far too much for anyone to take. So I’m not going to take it anymore!
I intend to spend 2006 looking for some real, genuine improvements in my IBS. Because I’m exhausted, and sad, and restricted, and so sick of being sick all the time.
And because my poor cheerleading hedgehogs are exhausted too.
So, I hereby launch the 2006 Save the IBS Cheerleading Hedgehogs Campaign. I’m going to start by booking an appointment with a UK IBS treatment centre (more details soon) and actually getting some expert advice from a nutritionist rather than being fobbed off with “take some milk of magnesia little girl and go away”. And I promise to document every step of the way in this blog.
And if you would like to join the campaign and save your own hedgehogs, then please do! Just leave your comments on this blog to let me know what you are doing, and what treatments you are trying.
We really don’t deserve this much pain, and it’s time we got some relief!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous IBS Sufferer // Jan 9, 2006 at 5:17 am
Terrific resolution, Sophie! I’m rooting for you. For my part I’m trying to get a referral to an allergist because I think that’s where the root of many of my problems lie. A close relative’s recent allergy test results came back with allergies to everything from soy to an ingredient in a popular antihistamine.
Keep the faith!
2 Peej // Jan 12, 2006 at 4:34 pm
I’m 36 days (or nights) into the hypnotheraphy CD’s. I’m enjoying them so far but can’t see any marked difference in my symptoms. At first I did but then now it seems to be back to normal. I’ll shall keep you posted. Have you tried hypnotheraphy yet?
3 Sophie Lee // Jan 12, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Hi Peej – best of luck with the hypno – I guess you are talking about the IBS Audio Program 100? That’s a very good program, I know people have had some good results with that. I’d definitely stick it out to the end. I did have a few ‘face to face’ sessions of hypno a while back and it didn’t seem to do much, but the IBS Audio Program is the second thing on my list to try – to the first is seeing a specialist who does tests for things like parasites which I’ve never really been examined for. More details soon.
4 Carol // Feb 11, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Hi Sophie- don’t know if you remember me. I posted a bit about having a colonic irrigation,with no results!
I’m 61 years old & have had IBS as far back as I can remember.Of course it wasn’t known as IBS when I was young.I was given laxatives for constipation & kaolin morph for diarrhoea;told I had a “grumbling” appendix which was removed & found normal when I was 18.
I’ve been it “constipated mode” since 2001,having previously swung between the two modes, mostly diarrhoea.
I’ve recently stopped eating wheat, which has helped a bit. I also use Manuka honey & it seems to improve motility.
Still in daily pain, still struggling to make everyone understand the difficulty of being cheerful when I just want to scream – you’d think I’d be used to it by now! But hey, I’m still here, making the best of it.
Hope your tests give you something to try at least.
Best wishes,
Carol.
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