I am a person who have the IBS since 19 years old... i'm now 20 years old..
i'm suffered with this disease, but as i know, this disease cannot be cure, so i accept this truth.
at first, i'm strongly affected by those symptom, so i'm quite inconvenience once i back to
college ..those symptoms is come out when i eat something not suitable for my bowel, stress, not enough sleep
and etc...sometimes even taking less fiber for a day also will constipate in next day..

so, my studies are affected and my life was change from that day...so what i'm change?
- my symptom is come out when exam. i also know this is my psychological problems, but i difficult to manage at first.
- i'm not convenience go to trip, coz i'm sensitive in the meals that i take daily.Once i eat something not suit, my
symptom is come out
- not confidence in doing a lot of think..

so after around 6 month, that's a day, during final exam, i infected by a disease and trigger my IBS symptoms,
that time really suffered...so my mom's friend recommend me consult a specialist at Ipoh , Perak, . the doctor recommend me eat a medicine call, probiotics. As i know, Probiotics is a friendly bacteria that help us in digestive and abort nutrition. He said, when i cure, keep it eating the probiotic daily, it would help the people who have IBS.

as a result i felt that it has much helping in my life...my symptoms is getting less and not severe
so , i'm thanks to the doctor who prescribed me and those who invent probiotic...

so, who is the next have the IBS or ur friend even relative have, come on share your thought and experience..
fight IBS

yes, probiotic is clinically proven to help in IBS.

it is a common condition, 1 in 5 ppl in UK have IBS.

so what type of symptoms you have? just constipation and discomfort? any pain, or irregularity (sometime diarhoea, but sometime constipation)?

it is better to have constipation, as it is easily treated too, with simple intervention (bulking agent, lots of fibres, or effective natural product such as senokot), rather than having diarhoea out of no where.

try to avoid food like wheat (in bread, cereal or even some noodle), rye, barley, dairy product, coffee (or caffeine containing drink, coke, tea etc), and onions. these are common food that will trigger IBS.

are you not given any drug such as mebeverine (colofac), they are good if you have sudden pain of IBS.

sorry to ask..what is IBS?

irritable bowel syndrome

LOL.. watch "Along Came Polly" (Ben Stiller & Jennifer Aniston)

probiotics is good for IBS
the people who invented probiotics would be either the French(cheese) or the Indians (yoghurt)

but sometimes irresponsible parties exploit probiotics by selling stuff that can be bought off the market for 2 bucks and sell it for 50 bucks. for example the brand Prolactor(the blue bottle thing from internal factor and its buatan malaysia)

they are selling youghurt powder that i can buy from and indian shop for 5 bucks for a kilo for crazy prices.
and worst of all is they take claims from other companies like biolife, lactoGG, and Gain Bac and claim it as their own

those companies work their asses off to get the report and safety data and some stupid buatan malaysia company just rip it off like no rasa man..
Malaysia truely boleh land and like proton memang dare to change.

back to the topic
probiotics is good for IBS
the people who invented probiotics would be either the French(cheese) or the Indians (yoghurt)

but sometimes irresponsible parties exploit probiotics by selling stuff that can be bought off the market for 2 bucks and sell it for 50 bucks. for example the brand Prolactor(the blue bottle thing from internal factor and its buatan malaysia)

they are selling youghurt powder that i can buy from and indian shop for 5 bucks for a kilo for crazy prices.
and worst of all is they take claims from other companies like biolife, lactoGG, and Gain Bac and claim it as their own

those companies work their asses off to get the report and safety data and some stupid buatan malaysia company just rip it off like no rasa man..
Malaysia truely boleh land and like proton memang dare to change.

back to the topic

but what works better for IBS is suprisingly, 3 stick of cigarette a day.
it is clinically proven that nicotine helps in reducing the occurance of IBS.. seriously



but what works better for IBS is suprisingly, 3 stick of cigarette a day.
it is clinically proven that nicotine helps in reducing the occurance of IBS.. seriously

This post has been edited by selenium: Feb 21 2008, 10:25 PM

Next time when you are CnP'ing do it in a more subtle way so that we dont notice it... But anyway you are doing a great job, I rate it 9.3/10. Keep up the good job! You can be the next buatan malaysia!

not CnP la bro just pissed off cause i kena cheated.

i bought this prolactor by internal factor for 80 bucks from this clinic and ate it. then when i turn to the back the bacteria or probiotics like damn familiar and when i notice it i was like damn shocked how can ppl sell yoghurt pwoder for 80 bucks. omfg man.

then i spoke to some friends and they told me alot also la. aih

not CnP. i detest barang buatan malaysia
exept the Pirated Cd. that one u must support

hi youngkies, are u ibs ppl? why so interest and knowledgeable in ibs? Quite experiences ... i wanna share the thought to u. Yea, when at first my symptoms is coming, it is very worst. i may experience in diarrhea around 5 or 6 time in a day, sometimes constipate, when constipate i felt so pain the stomach and no appetite...after suffered one month, i go to consult a specialist and through the colonoscopy and CTscan, i diagnosed is IBS. Then, my symptoms is getting less when i get a suit treatment. Until now, sometimes i will have some gas or bloating, easy to get tire, felt that not strong than before, if i eat a lot of meat will getting constipate, diarrhea after getting too much fiber or eat something dirty or not suitable like fatty food, spicy...and now i'm weight loss around 47KG ,170cm

i got some question need to ask u, once i having probiotics everyday, i must eat oat in order to prevent constipate. so is it better i take everyday[oat and probiotics]? got any side effect?

you call me try to avoid food like wheat (in bread, cereal or even some noodle), rye, barley, dairy product, coffee (or caffeine containing drink, coke, tea etc), and onions. these are common food that will trigger IBS.

so what symptoms that wheat can trigger?

so what symptoms that noodle can trigger and why noodle can affect, is it the ingredients of noodle, what is that?

so what symptoms that barley can trigger?

so what symptoms that daily product can trigger?

so what symptoms that coffee and tea can trigger?

so what symptoms that onion can trigger?

can tell me details?? coz i need these for my rest of my life..thanks.

when i stomachache, i take duspatalin sometimes take hyoscience, when i diarrhea i take immodium, beamodium or lomotil, when i vomit i take maxolon...

Hi..selenium, maybe cigarettes will help u in the short run, but in long run, maybe u can eliminate a lot of IBS symptoms but u may get lung disease...this is my comment but no exactly correct..maybe sometimes depends on a ppl body systems. haha as a reference la..

thanks u all reply me haha..hope to see u all reply soon ..haha

for IBS nicotine has been known to control it.
but cigarettes itself is not a known factor to cause lung cancer
it only promotes it.

no i do not suffer from IBS.

oat and probiotics have no interaction. so no worry. do you have actimel in malaysia? it is a good common probiotic, fresh as well, way better then taking those dry powder formulation. and it is recently widely used for hospital in-patient when they are taking antibiotic course, to help in the gut flora. so you might want to give it a try.

those food that i mentioned are the common foods that trigger IBS in UK, a studied done by some IBS association IIANM. i have no idea how exactly they trigger ibs, but i could see the reason as they fall into two categories:

1. bulking agent (e.g wheat, rye), which increase volume of stool and making it easier to pass.

2. diuretics (e.g. caffeine, barley maybe) which removes water in the body, indirectly may cause constipation.

as for dairy product, even healthy people might get intolerance to lactose, or it can promote stomach movement leading to diarhoea. no idea for onion though.

you are taking the right / common medication for IBS, which is either to relieve discomfort, muscle cramp, or to reduce gut activity.

everytime i drink marigold HL milk my stomach expand like a big balloon, is this IBS?

no. just intolerance to lactose.

how to make my stomach to be tolerance with it?

I'm pretty sure lactose-intolerance is in your genes so..

just stop drinking it la

anywhere thanks youngkies, actimel ? is one of the probiotics? i'm taking Lacto5 probiotics... r u interest in health? u have many knowledge about health, i think u r doctor..haha.. can i ask u a question, tell u a story first, a woman around 50 years old, but one day she suddenly get blooding in her urine so she go to consult doctor[General Hospital], at first the doctor suspect is STONES in bladder but eventually the urine test come out and the doctor said nothing happen, no STONES just the bladder not clean, go back and drink more water...so, u think is this secure?? Is it need any CT scan or any procedure to check more detail? Now the woman does not have any uncomfortable about the bladder..and the woman have the High Blood Pressure before this incident is happened.. so based on ur experience, what is the disease? or does not have disease at all?

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Added on February 29, 2008, 5:45 pmSometimes, even IBS ppl they need not consult doctor, because of the problems not serious and not many symptoms are come out...so i think if just some gas and just a milk or daily product u cannot use, don worry, i think the problems is not big in this moment, u're lucky than me oh, so remember care your body health...LIFE DOES NOT HAVE TAKE TWO, if i can choose i may choose back to the before i get IBS,..i cannot tell u in details, i'm not profession as doctor..haha..very happy share our story..

This post has been edited by falconLee: Feb 29 2008, 05:45 PM

well if you fancy milk, but are intolerant to cow milk, you can drink lactose-free milk or soy milk (soy milk is healthy option too).

actimel is probiotic dairy yoghurt from danone.

my pov of your story, if she is not assured by what the doctor said, she can always go for a second opinion. if me, i will be worried of her developing kidney failure due to the high blood pressure.

Does High Blood Pressure will lead to Kidney Failure? Why ? Is it because of the side effect of the medicine? or what is the causes of Kidney Failure?

high blood pressure not only put load on the heart but also the kidney. filtration occur in the kidney, when blood pressure is high, it might damage the filter system in the kidney, and this when the blood cells are able to squeeze through into the filtrate/urine. usually risk is higher with diabetes.

my gf has IBS or mayb something related. problem is, after meals, she will feel bloated and belly will swell abit and bowel movement only comes mayb after 1 or 2 days. all the while she will feel gassy in the belly. She has tried fibre, and even taken supplements to enhance the liver after suggestions that low bile production may influence irregular bowel movements.

Mayb will ask her to try probiotics?