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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 653206" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>What you have sounds a LOT more like the IBS that I and oddly enough both of my high school best friends have fought since our early teens. I have been there done that with these symptoms for over 3 decades now and they are not cancer. At one time or another, all 3 of us have had your exact symptoms and had to fight to regulate our guts. </p><p></p><p>It is not likely to be cancer because you are not losing weight. Your dieting may actually be a major contributor to the problems, as can over exercising. I had about the most awful experience after an endoscopy and it took over 12 full MONTHS of what you are describing for my gut to rebound back to a sort of healthy normal. My doctor keeps asking me about a colonoscopy and I simply refuse. I would rather chew off my arm without any pain medications. MOST people don't react to endoscopies that way, but my doctor did a couple of things during the procedure that were not okay and which left me vulnerable to bacteria that he introduced by being a jerk and a penny pincher rather than using fully sterile equipment. So I had to spend months figuring out how to heal my gut from the bad bacteria he introduced. </p><p></p><p>If I were you I would put myself on prevacid (OTC, available in generic as lansoprozole at Walmart), I would drink only filtered water (brita type filter or bottled), I would take a probiotic supplement and eat yogurt with live cultures. I would avoid artificial sweeteners like the PLAGUE (because they ARE, esp for your gut and for migraines) although stevia is okay. </p><p></p><p>You really need to get this fear of cancer out of your mind. I hope the doctor can lay your worries to rest because your odds of that are far lower than the odds of you having something like IBS which can be treated and controlled with proper diet (high in fiber is esp important) and with occasional use of medications.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 653206, member: 1233"] What you have sounds a LOT more like the IBS that I and oddly enough both of my high school best friends have fought since our early teens. I have been there done that with these symptoms for over 3 decades now and they are not cancer. At one time or another, all 3 of us have had your exact symptoms and had to fight to regulate our guts. It is not likely to be cancer because you are not losing weight. Your dieting may actually be a major contributor to the problems, as can over exercising. I had about the most awful experience after an endoscopy and it took over 12 full MONTHS of what you are describing for my gut to rebound back to a sort of healthy normal. My doctor keeps asking me about a colonoscopy and I simply refuse. I would rather chew off my arm without any pain medications. MOST people don't react to endoscopies that way, but my doctor did a couple of things during the procedure that were not okay and which left me vulnerable to bacteria that he introduced by being a jerk and a penny pincher rather than using fully sterile equipment. So I had to spend months figuring out how to heal my gut from the bad bacteria he introduced. If I were you I would put myself on prevacid (OTC, available in generic as lansoprozole at Walmart), I would drink only filtered water (brita type filter or bottled), I would take a probiotic supplement and eat yogurt with live cultures. I would avoid artificial sweeteners like the PLAGUE (because they ARE, esp for your gut and for migraines) although stevia is okay. You really need to get this fear of cancer out of your mind. I hope the doctor can lay your worries to rest because your odds of that are far lower than the odds of you having something like IBS which can be treated and controlled with proper diet (high in fiber is esp important) and with occasional use of medications. [/QUOTE]
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