It seems like, since childhood I've been dealing with a bum stomach, and have maintained for the longest time that it's hereditary and that I'm just going to have to cope as good as a possibly can. I remember my grandma always had Tums in her sweater pocket and chewing on them sporadically throughout the day. My mom had ulcerative colitis.
I have never been diagnosed with this, but it seems like my emotions have always "ruled" my stomach. Emotional turmoil has always sent me into uncontrollable boughts of diarrhea which I learned to "control" using anti-diarrhea medicines. When I decided that that probably wasn't the healthiest approach, I taught myself how to manage it through breathing, and positive self-talk. My doctor at the time said lactose intolerance. Years later, I no longer worry about having uncontrollable diarrhea while driving somewhere. Conversely, now I worry that I won't be able to go when I feel like I need to or should. Up until 6 months ago, I would develop such bad bloating and gasiness that seemed to be "stuck" in my body. Which eventually would leave me doubled over until I could lay on my left side to get it to release. The strange thing is that I start the day with a flat lower belly, and, it seems the minute I eat something the gasiness and bloating begins. Six months ago, I started trying to manage this through the use of probiotic (1B at first and then I bumped up to 10B) and recently digestive enzymes. While I not longer have the doubling over pain that I used to, I still have a lot of bloating and gasiness and discomfort. Sometimes it passes when it needs to, other times, I have to bend at the waist in order to get in the "right position" in order to help it pass. I have also recently moved to a high fiber diet, including complex carbohydrates and protein only. I am taking the Fiber35 shake. No "white foods." The other thing that has developed over the course of the last couple years is recurring yeast infections, which I have been treating symptomatically with CandidaStat, are yeast infections. I am 4 days into using the CandiGone product and, well, fingers crossed.
Obviously I have food sensitivity issues. But, seriously, at this point, my tummy seems sensitive (as evidenced by the gas, bloating, gurling and discomfort) to just about everything. Even water seems to give me gas. I'm frustrated and just want to be comfortable.
All that said, I feel like I have a greater underlying problem that I'm not quite getting to. Is it systemic cadidiasis, leaky gut, IBS? It seems like all the digestive disorders have many of the same symptoms. Traditional medical doctors can't seem to sit still long enough to listen and work through to a real solution. They seem to want to pass it off as one thing or another that is treated symptomatically, or chalk it up to bad guts through heredity. My question is where to start. Should I start with a cleanse and then move to the HOPE Formula or start with the HOPE formula and see what results happen, or do both concurrently.
Thoughts?
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