Re: IBS and nadas

[Guest guest]

Hi, I've had a lot of nada-induced IBS over the years. The last summer I lived

at home, it was excruciating - both living with her and the pain and cramps! I

went to the family physician, who I mentioned the barest details of the

situation to and he said, " having trouble with your mom, huhn? " I thought at

the time he must be a mind-reader, but looking back on it, he must have known

how disturbed she was from his own dealings with her. He then prescribed me

muscle relaxants (levbid) which were EXTREMELY helpful. I don't know if levbid

is still what they use, but it was a lifesaver. I only took them on an

as-needed basis, I just chewed one and it started to work very quickly. Of

course, that didn't make my mom any nicer to live with, but at least I wasn't

constantly having to run to the toilet at work, doubled over in pain.

Obviously, you have 2 issues going on here - the mental anguish and the

resultant physical pain. My experience was that my physical pain was easily

resolved with the levbid. I'm still working on the emotional pain -

unfortunately, this is 13 years later! But, I do feel that if you are

experiencing physical symptoms like this, and they can be dealt with through

medication, that maybe just alleviating the pain of IBS will allow you greater

energy and strength to deal with the emotional stuff. You can't do deep work if

you are exhausted and stressed by your own physical pain. And knowing that you

have the power to at least handle 1 set of circumstances (the physical pain) is

going to make you feel a lot more in control - which may help with the other

stuff too. Good luck --

C

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000811

(info on levbid)

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> Every time lately I've had to deal with nada or her monkeys I've had that

problem called IBS/diarrhea, this time to the point where I'm going to proably

have to call the doctor and get something stronger to stop the diarrhea if it

don't stop today.  My question is how do you approach these guys about it when

sometimes they thing therapy is the solution, from what therapists I've gone to

and spoken to about nada, they agree wiht me that there aint' much I can do but

stay the hell away from her, and most of them are convinced that nada isn't

going to cause any problems anymore because she does so intermittantly so I've

had to deal with a lot of it myself, otherwise funciton fine and don't really

ahve the money to get therapy I don't really need.  I just think it takes nada

more and more time to come up with ways of manipulating her friends into helping

her and develop situations that she thinks will make me come back.  I'm proably

just going to tell

> her, already been there and done that and it hasn't helped just let me at

something to control the issue until I get the problem removed.  Although Ithink

this letter I " m gonna send to her monkey will be curative of her problem.

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