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Natural IBS Pain Relief Christchurch Clinic

Thanks for checking out my natural ideas about IBS.

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Irritable bowel syndrome is a complex illness. Even when you have a definitive diagnosis of IBS you can be told it's something you have to live with.

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Here is a client's story when she came to me: -

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"Dailey worked in a customer service centre, her embarrassing problem was an uncontrollable bowel. Three years of digestive pain, gall bladder operation, not solving anything, a cacophony of drugs that didn't solve the problem......."

 

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  • Irritable bowel syndrome is debilitating,

  • IBS can be extremely embarrassing,

  • Unpredictable symptoms affect your social life,

  • You shy away from intimate relationships,

  • IBS symptoms are difficult to hide at work,

  • IBS abdominal pain can stop you in your tracks,

What is the Best Treatment for IBS?

Medications and diet may or may not improve your IBS symptoms, severity and duration.

 

Although diet can help alleviate bowel syndrome, despite its name and symptoms of diarrhea or constipation IBS is not just about your digestive system.

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The link below is a review of most of the treatments that you may be expected when you go to your doctor, or gastroenterologist about your IBS symptoms. It is on my online website Natural Pain Solutions.

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Relevant Article - Overview of Medical Treatments for irritable bowel syndrome

 

IBS can be described as a mind body syndrome, as there is an aptly named gut brain connection.

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Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common illness seen by gastroenterologists. Unfortunately, IBS response poorly to the medications mentioned above. Although some food changes can help the diets can be difficult to follow and again results can be poor.

Diet Changes can Help Alleviate IBS Symptoms.

Diet changes such a a FODMAP diet can be undertaken but it should be under supervision of a dietitian trained in IBS.

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My concern with dietary changes that need to be permanent and may eliminate some foods totally can be stressful. You or a family member needs to eat a different lunch or dinner from the rest of the family and it poses problems when eating out with friends or even a house call for a coffee.

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Dietary restrictions can make socialising both challenging for your digestive system and for your relationship. Do you make yourself suffer or risk causing embarrassment to yourself or your friends or work colleague.

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Ultimately for some people this type of IBS management can be stressful and as IBS have a brain gut connection to be constantly worried about food: -

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  • What to buy at the supermarket?

  • What does packaged foods contain?

  • How to eat takeaways with friends.

  • Specialist diets can be more expensive.

  • What do I share with my friends?

  • Am I making life more difficult for my family?

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There are many more questions that someone living with IBS must ask themselves every day. At the same time they must live with uncomfortable symptoms daily.

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As I said above the symptoms of IBS are miserable to live with and cause constant disruption to life, work and relationships.

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Irritable Bowel Diagnosis - Rome Criteria 

Irritable bowel syndrome can be diagnosed as four different types, as indicated by symptoms: -

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  • IBS - C predominantly constipation

  • IBS - D diarrhoea and loose stools

  • IBS - M alternates loose stools and constipation

  • IBS - U undefined as symptoms as variable

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Rome Definition of IBS - link to website

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Over the years the definitions have changed around duration and symptomatology so finding and comparing research and treatment information can be difficult. This can make it challenging to evaluate research due to inability to align symptoms.

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Brain Gut Connection Needs Attention

You can often read that IBS is a chronic illness that needs to be managed as much of the information on this page suggests. However there is recent research that is curing IBS.

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Recent research is promising with emotional release therapies now being used in a variety of treatment programmes.

Without a complicated explanation there are neurons [nerve cells] in your gut or digestive system.

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Think of some of the sayings we use: -

 

  • "Gut feelings"

  • "Trust your gut"

  • "I've got a nervous tummy" 

  • "Butterflies are going crazy"

 

These sayings are an apt description of the sensations that we can feel in our digestive system.

 

Now here are some things to think

about the gut brain connection.

 

  • Is your IBS worse when stressed?

  • Is your pain worse when stressed?

  • Are your symptoms better when you're on holiday?

  • Is your pain better when relaxed?

  • Is your pain less when enjoying times with good friends?

 

 

In the list above emotions are involved in each of them therefore emotions are involved in IBS.

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So what happened to Dailey?

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"I found Dailey a particular strain of probiotic that helped somewhat with her urgency. She uncovered various stressful events in her life - mainly from three years of IBS, operations and medication that didn't help.

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Her final resolution was remembering a time just before her illness began. Her car was stolen during the night from outside her house. However more than the loss of her car was the fact they took the keys off her bedside cabinet when she was asleep. The vision of a unknown stranger standing next to her bed was terrifying.

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Until she got together with me this had been forgotten - but her brain remembered the fear and so did her body!"

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Do you want to join me?

 

  • Learn more about how what you think and feel can affect your digestive system.

  • Because you already suspect that your feelings and what you're experiencing can affect the symptoms of your IBS.

  • Consultation

    30 min

    70 New Zealand dollars
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