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Comment on Product Review: Goodbelly Probiotic Drink by Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:09:36 +0000

Glad to hear you’ve found something that works. Perhaps acting quickly is the key to your success, many aren’t sure what they have for months or years.

Comment on Vitamin D & Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Goldenfoxx

Goldenfoxx — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:18:28 +0000

I was taking D-3 before I got the IBS so I quit taking it. I quit all supplements except for fish oil and COQ10. I walk 4 miles a day so I do get plenty of sun. I may start taking the D-3 again. The GoodBelly drink has helped me tremendously.

Comment on Product Review: Goodbelly Probiotic Drink by Goldenfoxx

Goldenfoxx — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:06:58 +0000

About 1:30 a.m. I woke up with diarrhea (2 months ago). I took immoduim and with no relief. I ended up after 6 weeks going to the doctor. After running some stool samples, all came back negative. After doing some online research, I decided that I have IBS. I happened upon GoodBelly at the store and decided to drink it–what did I have to lose? The cost was pricey, but I didn’t care. I have taken it now for 3 weeks and all my symptoms have disappeared. I’m on the mend. I ordered the packets to take with me when I travel and did get the 2 for 1 price. Also, on the inside of the cartons of GoodBelly, are 50 cent off coupons. I highly recommend this stuff. I saved me many trips to the bathroom, and extra rolls of toilet paper.

Comment on Today Show Highlights Gastroparesis by Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:10:07 +0000

I am sorry to hear about your granddaughter's struggles. I've sent you an e-mail Bill with information. I've merged that information into a post on the site as well. Hopefully your granddaughter can rebound like Gentrie did :).

Comment on Today Show Highlights Gastroparesis by Bill Killen

Bill Killen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:31:32 +0000

Thank you for publishing this story. My grandaughter has been going through this same scenario as Gentrie for over a year. She went from 130 lbs. to 90 lbs during this period, and was mis-diagonosed from anorexia, bulimia, to emotionally unstable, krohn’s disease, etc. by major hospitals, and mistreated with meds that should never have been prescribed for her, until, finally, I, with my daughter, stayed with her at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children’s Hospital in N.C. for nearly a month for diagnosis and treatment for gastroparesis. She is now home with her mother, and is, seemingly, being treated with the appropriate treatments through appropriate nutrition W/small amounts of food over 4-5 small portions a day, in addition with antibiotics. We were never told aboaut the pacemaker that Gentrie is using for her treatment. Should we ask her doctors about the possible use of one in her case? And, as she is 17 and will be 18 in three months, will we need to locate a doctor who treats adults? And, she is currently being treated by a pediatrician internist from UNC Children’s Hospital in N.C. who is teamed up with a neurologist, child psychiatrist, nutritionist, G.I. specialist, etc. Are we on the right track? And, if so, and, if not, please advise that we are on the right track, and how to keep going in the right direction and to ask the right questions——-and, if we are on the wrong track, please advise how we should follow up and pursue the right plan of “attack’ to get the right, care, diagnosis, treatment, etc. Our family has been on a roller coaster ride, now, for over a year, and especially so, because, our daughter lost the older sister of her current teenager three years ago when, as a healthy teenager, she went into a hospital , and she died within 24 hours because of incompetent staff,doctors, etc. misdiagnosed her and mistreated her which led to her death. We, currently, for the past three years have sued the hospital, staff, etc., and it is an on-going thing, As you can imagine, my daughter, her immediate family, and my wife and I are, and have been going through “hell” for the past three years, and presently, are going through our current bout with our grandaughter with gastropareses.

I apologize for rambling, but our family is very distraught with our supposedly “best medical system” in the world, as we already have lost one grandaughter to the incompetency of the system, and we do not want to lose another one.

My frustration is bringing myself to tears as I am trying to explain the need for us to do whatever we must do to prevent us from losing another grandaughter because of weaknesses within our healthcare system. I guess, you can say that, I am desperate, and our family is desperate in wanting to find the right advice from the right people to make sure that we can we can put our grandaughter in the right hands by the right healthcare people to help her live a normal life with the right treatment. It was so refreshing to hear the symptoms that Gentrie had, and that she was a goal-oriented student with good grades, etc, and that, she, wanted, in fact, to live!, and, wanted to eat. Our grandaughter was home-schooled all last year, and received all A’s , in spite of her school not cooperating in wanting to support my daugter and grandaughter’s rights to have her educated.

Believe me, this ordeal has been a real nightmare for all of us.

Thank you for reading this message, and I do hope to hear from someone as soon as possible with advice as to what to do.

Thank you, sincerely, Bill Killen

Comment on Today Show Highlights Gastroparesis by Patricia Amon

Patricia Amon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:04:49 +0000

I am so glad this story was published. My daughter is being treated for Gastroparesis as well- now a candidate for pacemaker. It has been a horrible two years for her. She was 16 when diagnosed.

Please thank Dr. Nancy Snyderman for her interest in this condition.
Patricia Amon

Comment on Salmonella Egg Recall Sickens Over A Thousand People by Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:57:45 +0000

I am not sure what your point is? Should we just let corporations put sawdust in our bread & white paint in our milk? That's what was done before we had the FDA. Are you suggesting that these businesses can actually self-regulate? Self-regulation is the biggest lie of the corporate world(e.g. Wall Street). These aren't poor little mom & pop farms that are going to get abused by the big mean government, they're mega-farms with billions in revenue, who have consolidated & probably colluded & abused their position. Due to the overall consolidation of our food industry, outbreaks like this one spread much more rapidly. Profit hungry companies usually have a short attention span when it comes to losing profits versus safety. At least one of the farms involved had a long history of health violations before the outbreak, totaling millions in fines. If anything these companies do not get punished enough, usually the fines inflicted are less than the profits earned by doing corrupt behavior.

Comment on Salmonella Egg Recall Sickens Over A Thousand People by morris

morris — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:44:37 +0000

With the government wanting to get more control over the egg industry to try to prevent similar recalls in the future, expect more complex regulations, more complex paperwork, more complex inspections. The result will invariably be lax oversight by the government, higher prices for the eggs and no improvement in quality or recalls. History has proven this over and over again, the futility of complex oversight.

Comment on Vitamin D & Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Rob Anthony

Rob Anthony — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:41:07 +0000

This is interesting, It was me who posted that posting on ibsgroup.org. So i’ve been on 5000 IU vitamin D since August 2009 or so. In Toronto now, where I live, it’s been an insane heat wave.. 2 things have happened

1. my testosterone levels have increased
2. IBS symptoms all but gone…

last week i was in the sun many hours a day during Toronto’s Gay Pride festival, and the week before for Canada Day. i developed a dark tan, and since that week in the sun, my IBS-D symptoms have gone. For some reason im sure they will return, but the only explanation is my involvement in the sun, and being outdoors and being more physical.

Interesting.

Comment on Align Probiotics Review: First Glance by Susan

Susan — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:36:04 +0000

After years of no life and never being able to relax in public my Doctor gave me some samples of Align I noticed a difference in less than a week! I heard that Align won an Edison Award for innovation – it definitely gets my vote! Thank you Align for giving me my life back