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I have IBS - diagnosed long before COVID. I've had COVID a few times now and I experience very mild cold symptoms, but I have an IBS flare up each time. I woul

by reedf1 3y ago

I have IBS - diagnosed long before COVID. I've had COVID a few times now and I experience very mild cold symptoms, but I have an IBS flare up each time. I would say my flare ups have increased over the past three years, I assume now that I must be fighting off a repeat variant occasionally. I would not at all be surprised if this just exposes existing IBS in people, maybe experiencing their first noticible flare up To any new sufferers of IBS, I would highly recommend Metamucil or any psyllium husk product. I regret not trying it sooner.

ljf 3y ago
It is so interesting the affects covid can have - when I most recently got covid I had a really bad joint pain flare up in my right hand and right ankle - like arthritis - it took about 6 weeks to pass, but to me it felt very linked to the covid infection. I may not have been, but it is the first time I've had symptoms like this.
debacle 3y ago
IBS is complicated. Psyllium tore me apart inside. In fact the thing that worked best was cutting out as much nuts and vegetables as possible. For other people it's pork or coffee or certain sugars. It's definitely a disease we need to learn more about.
- reedf1 3y ago
  Yes definitely. Many things initially recommended to me were actively detrimental. There is no one size fits all treatment.
- bena 3y ago
  This makes it look like IBS is more a symptom for a host of related diseases rather than a disease on its own. Which is the tricky thing about diagnosis that a lot of people don't really get. Symptoms are sexy, symptoms get the headlines, symptoms get treated. But sometimes multiple diseases present with similar symptoms. And for all we know about medicine and the human body, there is still a lot we are unsure about. So a lot of the time, symptoms are all we have to go on. And it sucks for you while we're figuring it all out, and I do sympathize, but I can't help but be fascinated by medicine and biology when I run into these situations.
- senectus1 3y ago
  Coffee, Garlic, Onions, soda, fruit juice, most alcohol and chocolate. yeah, I dont get much joy from life these days.
4death4 3y ago
For whatever reason, psyllium husk is insanely high in lead. High enough to require prop 65 warnings.

by reedf1 3y ago

ljf 3y ago

It is so interesting the affects covid can have - when I most recently got covid I had a really bad joint pain flare up in my right hand and right ankle - like arthritis - it took about 6 weeks to pass, but to me it felt very linked to the covid infection. I may not have been, but it is the first time I've had symptoms like this.

debacle 3y ago

IBS is complicated. Psyllium tore me apart inside. In fact the thing that worked best was cutting out as much nuts and vegetables as possible. For other people it's pork or coffee or certain sugars. It's definitely a disease we need to learn more about.

reedf1 3y ago
Yes definitely. Many things initially recommended to me were actively detrimental. There is no one size fits all treatment.
bena 3y ago
This makes it look like IBS is more a symptom for a host of related diseases rather than a disease on its own. Which is the tricky thing about diagnosis that a lot of people don't really get. Symptoms are sexy, symptoms get the headlines, symptoms get treated. But sometimes multiple diseases present with similar symptoms. And for all we know about medicine and the human body, there is still a lot we are unsure about. So a lot of the time, symptoms are all we have to go on. And it sucks for you while we're figuring it all out, and I do sympathize, but I can't help but be fascinated by medicine and biology when I run into these situations.
senectus1 3y ago
Coffee, Garlic, Onions, soda, fruit juice, most alcohol and chocolate. yeah, I dont get much joy from life these days.

4death4 3y ago

For whatever reason, psyllium husk is insanely high in lead. High enough to require prop 65 warnings.