Kime

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.