Anxiety and bowel disease....how to deal with it

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It has in my area because pieces of rubber were found in it.

A probiotic (Boots do a great one with cranberry in a sachet) and a couple of Slippery Elm calms things down for me. Also Melissa Dream (Holland and Barret) to help you stay asleep which eases the mind. Nice gentle but effective measures but also find yoga breathing helps too.

I wouldn't like to tell you what cranberry would do to me Rahrah, and that's part of the problem isn't it; what works for one doesn't always work for others. It is interesting to see just how many gransneters have IBD or IBS.

Loperamide works with me after having a hemi colectomy last year, my bowls are u predictable too and I take loperamide before I go out .i

For those of you with bowel problems which don't seem to respond in any respect to diet, Google BAM (Bile Acid Malapsorbtion) and BAD (Bile Acid Diorhea). It's only recently been recognised. There is a test now available in the UK for it, but it hasn't yet been passed for use in the States and some other countries, and there is a medication which helps.

Of course you can also get probiotic without cranberry. Only trying to help. I hope you find what works for you soon, I know how miserable IBS can be.