what's happening to our borad TMI

If it happens, I will be spiritually at your side, yelling at that asshole and/or validating your feelings.

awww ty! <3

i did five(?) years of chronic and incapacitating mystery stomach cramps (that hospitalized me on and off for a week and a half, did CAT scans, MRIs, an endoscope, a colonoscopy, loads of blood tests, visited five specialists (including a dietician, a biofeedback trainer and a proctologist), took four years of lithium derivative pills, tried a dozen OTC pills, saw a psychotherapist for three months, fasted, cut out various potentially damaging food types, etc etc and finally discovered a year ago that the problem was pretty definitely greek yogurt. since cutting it out of my diet, I've not had a single episode. I probably spent 10k on this and untold emotional and mental damage and it was fucking Fage.

omg

that's insane!

oof, that's meze

i'm pleased it's apparently dealt with (knock wood cross fingers pray a little) but i feel like an idiot when family and friends ask if my "stomach problems" have gotten better and i have to be like uh yeah it was yogurt go figure. given the pain and impact it had on my life, i wanted to point to a bezoar or something

I had henoch schonlein purpura for 2 months in undergrad, and every gastro or internal medicine person kept telling me it was IBS or stress related abdominal pain. But we'd be like 'but I have purple spots on my skin and my feet are swollen. the internet says this is henoch schonlein purpura.' Finally, a dermatologist diagnosed it as such from a biopsy, and she even wrote a conference paper about it. smdh at those doctors who'd look down upon dermatologists.

so fascinating forks. i know extremely little about stomach/intestinal issues but i would've thought that yogurt and other fermented foods would help beneficial gut bacteria to flourish and thus alleviate some problems. obv there are tons of different causes for gastrointestinal shit though

obviously so did I! And nobody ever questioned it. I started eating greek yogurt daily when it started getting popular in the US: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=71070
(maybe the ailing was comeuppance for insensitive threadtitle?)
anyway, i never made the connection because it was really just breakfast! and who could fault yogurt!
But one day last winter i went out to a greek restaurant and we ordered a huge thing of sweet greek yogurt for dessert and i ate half of it and it devastated me for three days.
so i put two and two together and stopped with all yogurt. And the pain stopped! I really really really miss yogurt. but man, i was ready to do exploratory surgery. it was a huge shift.
it also taught me how fucked up chronic pain can be. totally does away with optimism.

I have some kind of thing where last summer I decided to eat like a TON of peanuts for some fucking reason and I came down with diarrhea for almost a week. Like I had bought a big jar of them and just absentmindedly snacked on them all day at work. I didn't have any other symptoms besides diarrhea and cramping.

Now any time I eat raw peanuts, I get watery stools at the very least. I can eat peanut butter without any repercussions. I could eat it by the spoonful. But I guess the nuts themselves are so rugged and fibrous that I broke my guts eating them.

I caught the diarrhea in the weirdest way too. I was standing there in the bathroom at work taking a possibility when I see this centipede crawling around by my feet. I start trying to do this weird dance/balancing act because I need to avoid the centipede but also maintain control of my stream. As I shifted my position, I indulged myself in the urge to fart and then realized that everything had gone wrong. I had to toss out my underwear and go commando the rest of the day, with intermittent trips to the bathroom to shit.

Taking a possibility = taking a piss

lol I thought "taking a possibility" was standing up to pee at a urinal while waiting to see whether you also had to poop.

IANAD but my grandmother has diverticulitis and cannot eat nuts without a reaction similar to what you describe.

Forks, what an ordeal. Chronic pain really is a monster, and our health/disability system/overall mindset is not set up to handle it at all. Also I can eat yogurt but get very very nauseated when I take any other kind of probiotic or eat anything that is labeled as probiotic. I wonder if it's a similar thing...

Guts are so fucking weird. Every time I read about gut bacteria transplants I wonder how I can get in line for a clinical trial. Who knows! It might fix my guts, my weight, my anxiety, my career, my tendency to take on more projects than I can reasonably complete, my tendency towards impatience...

one love toward the IBS issues you're going through; i hope you can figure what the issue ends up being. Nobody ever diagnosed a problem, even now... and the doctors I've asked about it generally respond that if they can't diagnose it, that's the best case scenario as it's nothing that's life threatening or clearly long term damaging. They are conveniently ignoring the possibility that they just can't find the problem, but still.

That fecal transplant therapy has some serious proponents: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/excrement-experiment

but for the love of god, find a specialist; i can't even look at this DIY url without gagging a bit, much less the HUK blender in the HUK article GAG: http://thepowerofpoop.com/epatients/fecal-transplant-instructions/

Yeah, I'm not too keen on playing medical detective with my guts any more, so it's all about management strategies for now, which is fine. I'm waiting for a medical breakthrough before I get back on that merry go round.

No way am I clicking on that link much less DIYing a fecal transplat. Gag indeed.

omg

http://thepowerofpoop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/poop-in-blender-1024x725.jpg

That's basically the "before" picture of the blender. ;__;

oh no no non nonoansdfiona;sdfkl fuck!!!

oh no i'm so genuinely sorry!! i thought the blender was empty b/c the image was much smaller on the page!!!!

bwahaha

I'm coming to your house after work to poop in your blender.

Fecal transplants are fascinating to me, like there was a story somewhere recently where a thin woman got one from her overweight daughter and gained a shitload of weight in a couple of months; I would so love the reverse of this.

The only really embarrassing thing I've had at the doctors was during fertility treatments (which I fully admit were much, much more invasive and challenging for my wife) when I had to give a sample at the doctor's office. I had to walk down the hall full of clinic staff to the special room with a big TV and a bunch of porn DVDs and magazines so everyone knew I what I was up to. I was also really curious about who had to go out from the office to buy the porn, and was wondering what sort of past problems led to them having a space heater in the jerk off room.

Fecal transplants are fascinating to me, like there was a story somewhere recently where a thin woman got one from her overweight daughter and gained a shitload of weight in a couple of months; I would so love the reverse of this.

WOAH that's fascinating!

dude's with shriveled balls!

idk if that's actually a problem

There was some stuff that came out a while ago about the importance of intestinal bacteria and its effect on adult weight which even suggested that babies born via c-section might be at higher risk of being overweight as adults because by not passing through the mama vadges they missed out on ingesting/being exposed to bacteria that effected the intestinal flora and in turn somehow played a part in weight. So fucking weird but awesome.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31168511

Also I unintentionally used "shitload" up there but really is probably accurate.

So weird.

ah god all of this

just be glad je55e posted the BEFORE blender

Bowels on plates

ah god I just et ahhhh goooooodddddddd

It was more of a "during" pic.

xp

ahhhhh gooooddddddd

I am not clicking on any of that but I remember when my old boss suggested my mom look into the fecal transplant and I was like uh say what now lady?

I'm impressed by how it's a continuous rope of poop

why would u look into one even if you were having one you'd look the other way

I'd get one if it promised a future of perfectly coiled and clean poops like that. it's wonderful.

it's like a microphone cable

Every time I read about gut bacteria transplants I wonder how I can get in line for a clinical trial.

Carl, it's your lucky day: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02092402?term=fecal+transplant&rank=18

blender pic is incredible

oh, here's another: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02154867?term=fecal+transplant&rank=19

Sweden and Norway, though. Is there one in Finland? I could crash on Tuomas's couch, maybe poop in his blender.

wouldn't be the first person

He would be very blase about it, too

I'm impressed by how it's a continuous rope of poop

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Lie down and take a deep breath as the FMT flows in. Hold your butt tight. Congratulate yourself for having got this far. Think of all the good bugs that are going to repopulate your gut. Breathe. If you feel like you are going to expel the FMT then turn off the enema nozzle. You can put more in later.

always trust ilx board I Love To Mention Intestines to lead us to these places

There was some stuff that came out a while ago

I read on with genuine trepidation

I am sensing a new ILX concept album in the making