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As someone with both IBS and anxiety, this is slightly scary
by _bxg1 8y ago
As someone with both IBS and anxiety, this is slightly scary
- afturner 8y agoI have suspected IBS and suspected Borderline (diagnosed MDD and Anxiety) and I swear to god my stomach health is related to my mental health. Correlated, perhaps, but there's definitely some sort of relation based on my experience. ps; probiotic yogurt makes me very happy
- macawfish 8y agoBorderline is rough. I feel for you!
- _bxg1 8y agoSame with the yogurt; I'm actually planning to start taking probiotic supplements to simplify that aspect, as well as a fiber source called phylum husk. Sorry to hear about the Borderline. Just remember that mental health diagnoses are less rigid than traditional medical diagnoses. You've heard of mind over matter; mind over mind is even more effective.
- thaisan 8y agoTake a look at VSL #3, a heavy duty probiotic. Also, check out partially hydrolyzed guar gum which has some promise for IBS. It is a prebiotic fiber (feeds your beneficial bacteria) and also like psyllium husk does not produce a lot of gas which is bad for IBS. Hope you feel better! :)
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoI take a fibre powder I make myself, but there are premixed versions: Rice bran, oat bran, psyllium husk, ground linseed, and slippery elm powder. Typically equal proportions, but it varies depending on how much of what I’ve got left when it goes in to the mixing bowl. I also regularly buy not continuously take a priobiotic and / or Greek style unsweetened yogurt. Lots of Vitamin D. I also need to supplement essential fatty acids or my skin tears at the edges of my nails. Plus running and lifting heavy things. Also dogs. My dogs are well trained, they know our routines, and they make me laugh out load a lot!
- jokowueu 8y agoThis might sound crazy but if u are able to fast for 2-14 days straight it will help so much . It seems to have had a very long term effects . First try doing OMAD and see how u react . Basically fast for 23 hours and eat for one hour . If u think you can handle doing that for a week. do it a few days straight
- hiccuphippo 8y agoFasting for 14 days does sound crazy. I remember hearing of a diet that simulated fasting though. Anyone has experience with that?
- darkpuma 8y agoEat more yogurt and relax. You're going to be okay.
- macawfish 8y agoThis is one of the sweetest comments I've ever read on hacker news
- rubyfan 8y agoIt’s misguided and incentive. Gut diseases aren’t cured by yogurt.
- masonic 8y agoEven if well-intended, I think it's condescending.
- _bxg1 8y agoFwiw I didn't take it as condescending
- aaronblohowiak 8y agoOne improvement to my life is assuming positive intent. If there is a way I can interpret someone's comment in a positive light, I do so. I'd rather occasionally seem like a fool who didn't realize he was being insulted than hurt somebody by falsely accusing them of being mean. As a bonus, I am insulted a lot less ;)
- DoreenMichele 8y agoIt actually points to a possible solution: If you get your IBS under control, your anxiety may improve. You might look up the term somatopsychic (assuming you don't already know it) and start thinking of mental health issues as probably at least partly rooted in physical health issues.
- dilap 8y agoYou might find this interesting: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/human-performance-outliers-podcast/id1363389413?mt=2&i=1000424867668 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/human-performance-outlie... Interview w/ a doctor focused on the links between gut, autoimmune, and mental health.
- nicklaf 8y agoI'd be curious to know if anyone can anecdotally confirm a slightly different, but similar connection to IBS: chronic pain. I have read that IBS is implicated in fibromyalgia, including shoulder pain, but I am interested in the reverse causal direction: can a painful shoulder injury cause IBS? If nerves and the gut are tightly connected, it seems plausible that pain receptors would also be implicated in both directions. (Of course, going back to the link to the central nervous system, your brain doesn't have pain receptors, but it is connected to every nerve in your body.)
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI can't anecdotally confirm that, but could speculatively postulate a possible explanation for such a phenomen, assuming you are interested.
- nicklaf 8y agoI am in fact rather interested! A few years back, I went through a lot of physical therapy for a shoulder injury, and within a month or two, I had a year and a half long bout of IBS and leg cramps. Ultimately I controlled the condition (somewhat) with diet, but I can't help but think the real problem was simply that my pain was the original trigger. Since the problem has only mostly subsided, I'd be thankful for any ideas about just what was going on.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoCartilage has no blood vessels. It gets all its nutrients from osmosis. Wastes are removed the same way. Osmosis is a less efficient means than direct blood supply, so joints probably tend to accumulate wastes firsts if they aren't all being removed from the body for some reason. Anecdotally, cartilage and nervous system tissues are the last things to heal. Everything else has to improve first. Also, some infections, like strep, are known to settle in the joints. The shoulder is one of the larger joints and has a fair amount of cartilage and similar tissues. So, you injure a major joint and old infection hiding out in the joint gets released into the blood stream. This impacts the entire body. But the gut is where you find 70 to 80 percent of immune cells in the body. My hypothesis is that it is because food is the single largest threat we deal with on a daily basis. So you have what amounts to an internal toxic spill and it stresses the gut because that's the largest concentration of cleanup crews. Dealing with this crisis taxes the entire immune system, but you are most aware of impact on the gut because that's where the vast majority of your immune function is found.
- ember91 8y agoI got severe IBS, depression and anxiety after gastroenteritis. By changing my diet I solved the three problems (among others).