minded
08-25-2004, 05:45 AM
Is there any vitamin or supplement that can help me. i cannot read anything or actually finish it. I dont remember what i read. I have IBS & i dont have alot of foods. I have tried so many vitamins. I find that glutamine has helped a bit but im afriad its no more helping. Korean ginseng died of, folic acid did not make a huge diff, flaxseed helped a bit but also gave up. fatty oils never made a difference. Im on vitamin b12 at the moment. I have seen & read Phosphatylresine (dont know the right spelling) but thats too expensive. Mutli-vitamins dont help. I think glutamine was the only one that helped a bit. Its helped me calm down, think properly & i was talking & actually understanding others. I felt so good & happy. now, its wearing of.
My IBS symptons are bad, i go to the toilet about 10 times a day & only live on fruit & sometimes soya. Other foods make me bloated, heavy, toilet & sleepy. I also get irratable & get angry often. Now since i stopped eating all solids, i feel much calmer but i still cannot pay attention or even read. I've been to so many doctors & they all said theres no medication to stop you from going to the toilet but they wanted to offer me anti depressants. Im scared i will get hooked onto anti depressants. I used to smoke for 5 years & gave up for 2 years now. I am a strong individual but feel myself going back.
I just want to be calm, read, understand & be socialable. I have read Kava Kava is good, but they banned it in my country. Will that help my memory & brain concentration.
I have alot of confidence to succeed & build my business but i cant read & do stuff. i dont know why.
Im no depressed about my IBS symptoms caused ive learned to live with it but i want to be able to read & pay attention. I am clever & intelligent.
Some one please help!
My IBS symptons are bad, i go to the toilet about 10 times a day & only live on fruit & sometimes soya. Other foods make me bloated, heavy, toilet & sleepy. I also get irratable & get angry often. Now since i stopped eating all solids, i feel much calmer but i still cannot pay attention or even read. I've been to so many doctors & they all said theres no medication to stop you from going to the toilet but they wanted to offer me anti depressants. Im scared i will get hooked onto anti depressants. I used to smoke for 5 years & gave up for 2 years now. I am a strong individual but feel myself going back.
I just want to be calm, read, understand & be socialable. I have read Kava Kava is good, but they banned it in my country. Will that help my memory & brain concentration.
I have alot of confidence to succeed & build my business but i cant read & do stuff. i dont know why.
Im no depressed about my IBS symptoms caused ive learned to live with it but i want to be able to read & pay attention. I am clever & intelligent.
Some one please help!
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Kime
08-25-2004, 12:16 PM
I wonder if a product like Primal Defense would hlep you. It has the good bacteria that your intestines need to fuction properly. The man who developed it wasted down to practically nothing from Chrone's Disease, which seems something like IBS, only worse. You have to take it for two or three months from what I have heard, and it is pretty expensive.
As far as your problems with concentration, you could try B-50 capsules twice a day, plus extra niacinamide, which is the non flush niacin. There are two ways to figure out the best level of niacin, either take niacinamide and keep increasing the dose until you start feeling nauseated and then lower the dose to just under that level or you can use the flush method with niacin and take 100 gm every 15 minutes until you flush. I think this works best on an empty stomach. The first time I did it my stomach was full and it was the evening and I took 3200 mg and finally gave up because I was tired and wanted to go to bed. During the night I did wake up and find I was flushing, but it wasn't even a very strong flush. Now after taking niacin for awhile I usually flush with only 100 mg. I guess that means my reserves are up to where they should be. My husband flushed with 700mg the first time. The flush is completely harmless and goes away within an hour. If you take more niacinamide than your body needs for an extended period you will throw up, but it doesn't cause any real harm. Only the slow release form can be dangerous to the liver. Try taking zinc 30 mg twice a day, too. The extra zinc and niacin should help to calm you down. The niacin form is better than niacinamide for helping someone calm down as long as you don't mind the flush. Vitamin C helps with mind clarity, most people should take 10-15 grams a day divided in two or three doses. At least that works for us. We like to use ascorbic acid powder in juice with a little stevia to sweeten because it is so sour.
My son has exactly the same problems as you as far as the reading and concentration, only he has other symptoms, too, but the symptoms you have, he has had his whole life and the other symptoms showed up more recently. We have discovered that part of his problem with concentrating on his reading is from a jaw problem where his tongue is too big for the size of his jaw and throat. Have you ever had problems with nightmares or waking up a lot at night, sleeping a lot but not getting rested, or shoulder or upper back pain for no apparent reason?
Another thing that might be affecting you is hypoglycemia. It can have strange effects on people. Do you like to eat candy and sweets every day? If you do that could be a factor. But you said that you live on fruit an soya. Probably you are not getting the nutrients you need because of the IBS and that is affecting your concentration. Have you always had this problem? If not, when did it start? I mean the reading concentration problem.
As far as your problems with concentration, you could try B-50 capsules twice a day, plus extra niacinamide, which is the non flush niacin. There are two ways to figure out the best level of niacin, either take niacinamide and keep increasing the dose until you start feeling nauseated and then lower the dose to just under that level or you can use the flush method with niacin and take 100 gm every 15 minutes until you flush. I think this works best on an empty stomach. The first time I did it my stomach was full and it was the evening and I took 3200 mg and finally gave up because I was tired and wanted to go to bed. During the night I did wake up and find I was flushing, but it wasn't even a very strong flush. Now after taking niacin for awhile I usually flush with only 100 mg. I guess that means my reserves are up to where they should be. My husband flushed with 700mg the first time. The flush is completely harmless and goes away within an hour. If you take more niacinamide than your body needs for an extended period you will throw up, but it doesn't cause any real harm. Only the slow release form can be dangerous to the liver. Try taking zinc 30 mg twice a day, too. The extra zinc and niacin should help to calm you down. The niacin form is better than niacinamide for helping someone calm down as long as you don't mind the flush. Vitamin C helps with mind clarity, most people should take 10-15 grams a day divided in two or three doses. At least that works for us. We like to use ascorbic acid powder in juice with a little stevia to sweeten because it is so sour.
My son has exactly the same problems as you as far as the reading and concentration, only he has other symptoms, too, but the symptoms you have, he has had his whole life and the other symptoms showed up more recently. We have discovered that part of his problem with concentrating on his reading is from a jaw problem where his tongue is too big for the size of his jaw and throat. Have you ever had problems with nightmares or waking up a lot at night, sleeping a lot but not getting rested, or shoulder or upper back pain for no apparent reason?
Another thing that might be affecting you is hypoglycemia. It can have strange effects on people. Do you like to eat candy and sweets every day? If you do that could be a factor. But you said that you live on fruit an soya. Probably you are not getting the nutrients you need because of the IBS and that is affecting your concentration. Have you always had this problem? If not, when did it start? I mean the reading concentration problem.
minded
08-26-2004, 03:43 AM
Dear Kime
Thank you so much for your detailed reply. I have just bought Rhodia Rosia & im going to check if it has any affect on me. I have bought ginseng previously, the mild & strong one. It worked for 1 week & then gave up the following weeks. I dont know whats wrong with my body. I dont eat solids as this makes me bloated, tired, angry & tired. I luv cakes, chocolates & sweets because this doesnt make me bloated or irratable. I still go to the toilet after i eat anything but the pains, cramps & irratability has stopped after i had stopped eating alot of solids. I only eat soya & fruits now days. I cannot think, concentrate, remember properly. Im always in a sad & bad mood. I dont know if this is because of my stomach. I dont understand my parents. I feel they dont care but i dont know if im wrong. They always worry about my brother & hes perfect health & dont worry about my IBS. Maybe im complaining too much. I feel nobody understands me. My gf is trying really hard to understand me but she can only take so much. Previous to this, our relationship had terrible issues. I have hope in me but i cant help but feel everything is going wrong. Dont get me wrong, i try really hard & i have tried not to worry but nothing works.
Maybe after you read this, you might not understand but thanks for reading. I just want something to be happy & also make me concentrate properly. Im a 20 year old male, taurean & want to make a life for myself. I want to be indepedant & live on my own. I am starting my own business & working really hard.
All this problems in my life makes it hard for me to do anything else.
Theres also been some other problems where some religous people told me that someone gave me something to eat purposefully to make my stomach like this. If this is true, some people are really screwed up.
I dont know what to do & i feel like im going mad at the moment. Generally, im a calm person & i now know what it feels like to want to take something to calm you down.
I wish my life was normal & if this is my fault - i want it to come right & i try so hard. Why does this have to happen to me? Why? :(
Thank you so much for your detailed reply. I have just bought Rhodia Rosia & im going to check if it has any affect on me. I have bought ginseng previously, the mild & strong one. It worked for 1 week & then gave up the following weeks. I dont know whats wrong with my body. I dont eat solids as this makes me bloated, tired, angry & tired. I luv cakes, chocolates & sweets because this doesnt make me bloated or irratable. I still go to the toilet after i eat anything but the pains, cramps & irratability has stopped after i had stopped eating alot of solids. I only eat soya & fruits now days. I cannot think, concentrate, remember properly. Im always in a sad & bad mood. I dont know if this is because of my stomach. I dont understand my parents. I feel they dont care but i dont know if im wrong. They always worry about my brother & hes perfect health & dont worry about my IBS. Maybe im complaining too much. I feel nobody understands me. My gf is trying really hard to understand me but she can only take so much. Previous to this, our relationship had terrible issues. I have hope in me but i cant help but feel everything is going wrong. Dont get me wrong, i try really hard & i have tried not to worry but nothing works.
Maybe after you read this, you might not understand but thanks for reading. I just want something to be happy & also make me concentrate properly. Im a 20 year old male, taurean & want to make a life for myself. I want to be indepedant & live on my own. I am starting my own business & working really hard.
All this problems in my life makes it hard for me to do anything else.
Theres also been some other problems where some religous people told me that someone gave me something to eat purposefully to make my stomach like this. If this is true, some people are really screwed up.
I dont know what to do & i feel like im going mad at the moment. Generally, im a calm person & i now know what it feels like to want to take something to calm you down.
I wish my life was normal & if this is my fault - i want it to come right & i try so hard. Why does this have to happen to me? Why? :(
Kime
08-26-2004, 01:32 PM
Well, there are a lot of people who have IBS so unless you have some good evidence for believing that someone gave you something on purpose to make you like that I doubt that they did. You didn't tell me when you began to have the problems with reading and concentration, or if you have always been that way. I still think the vitamins would help with the concentration and mood problems if you would give them a try for a month or two. I'm sorry to hear about your problems with your gf and parents, we need the support of our loved ones.
God bless.
God bless.