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  1. Kimberly B

    Any scuba divers out there? Bloating and diving

    Oops I never updated that! The GP said it looked perforated. The ENT guy told me it was TMJ I could dive just fine and I should get my implants crowned because my bite was way off! I've never been diagnosed with TMJ before, though I know I grind my teeth. So that's the answer to that sorry.
  2. Kimberly B

    Any scuba divers out there? Bloating and diving

    hi sorry I didn't post before. In hawaii my 15 year old daughter ended up with encephalitis and meningitis, had to be airlifted to another island, leaving two of my other kids behind, etc. But after a 2 week extremely expensive extension, we are home. i went on five incredible dives there...
  3. Kimberly B

    Coping with PMS/PMT

    Hi. I haven't been on this forum for quite a while, but i want to respond to your original question. I had the DS open on 4/12/99. I guess I was a pioneer of sorts...I started at 391, stablized at 160-180 while having two more kids during that time, and now I'm at 220. But this post is not...
  4. Kimberly B

    Any scuba divers out there? Bloating and diving

    Yes I was talking about warm water diving I'm going to Maui next week but I actually did a lot of travel last week and changed pressure often, and now have a perforated eardrum! I'm seeing the ENT guy tomorrow I hope that they'll even let me swim!
  5. Kimberly B

    Any scuba divers out there? Bloating and diving

    HiI have been many times I up am 15 years out...but I have a ton of trapped air in my stomach and am visibly bloated. I'll try DAN thanks for the number....
  6. Kimberly B

    Any scuba divers out there? Bloating and diving

    Barotraumas of ascent (overexpansion injuries) Lung overexpansion injury Arterial gas embolism: Air or other breathing gas in the blood stream, causing blockage of small blood vessels. Intestinal gas overexpansion Middle ear overpressure (reversed ear) (also alternobaric vertigo) Sinus...
  7. Kimberly B

    How to deal with severe gas pain?

    The weirdest thing about this is that it isn't just one gas pocket, I've tried this method, even gotten entire one hour massages on my stomach but to no avail. It is a hard, bloated stomach that feels like I'm. about six months pregnant...in the fifteen years since my surgery until this...
  8. Kimberly B

    How to deal with severe gas pain?

    Hmmmm...yes, the gas is much much worse with the probiotics. And the trots? Well, I haven't gone to the bathroom now in two days. Perhaps just one primal defense ultra will do. I am Not going to take a laxative God forbid, that causes the worst cramps, so I am not sure what to do here...
  9. Kimberly B

    How to deal with severe gas pain?

    I will try the washcloth trick...on the probiotics, i'm taking one primal defense ultra a day, two florastor, and hey I'll take more...can you overdose on those? my doctor said one a day but it seems like DS folks need more than one/ Anything that can help with the gas, i'm on it. Should I...
  10. Kimberly B

    How to deal with severe gas pain?

    Since I had the DS in 1999 I'd heard of people that had severe gas pain, I never got that because I farted all the tme. It was smelly but it was a release, and I naturally did it. But now, with this bacterial overgrowth thing, I don't fart. Rarely, if ever. I am on flagyl and probiotics and...
  11. Kimberly B

    Diana Cox, the most amazing advocate and support person ever!

    Why can't you bill all your hours? Total aside, but I'm curious
  12. Kimberly B

    Morbid obesity and learned helplessness

    Diana interesting you mentioned the thyroid meds. I went cold turkey off mine about two years ago exactly when the weight gain started. Coincidence? What should I do about thst? Endocrinologist ? Geez I'm a mess. I still have the thyroxine and the cytomel but I'm not putting myself back in it...
  13. Kimberly B

    Small bowel intestinal overgrowth

    I bought oct non refrigerated florastkr and also primal defense ultra. I'm on day thre on flarastor and Keflex, and have taken one primal defense ultra a day, they have 5 billion colonies a capsule I was told to only take one with 500k colonies. Is that enough? Do I add the florastor too? I am...
  14. Kimberly B

    Morbid obesity and learned helplessness

    This is tough, you are right....I grew up being the peacemaker and also the scapegoat of my family, I felt very alone and took a lot of blame on myself. So I ate. Food was no judge to me, food didn't tell me I wasn't good enough, food was a way to escape. I started weight watchers at ten...
  15. Kimberly B

    Small bowel intestinal overgrowth

    Hi. I looked up Florastor online before going to Target to try and find it, and one, it doesn't say how many "colonies" there are (I guess I need over 500k I have no idea what I am doing though...) and also that it does not need to be refrigerated?
  16. Kimberly B

    Small bowel intestinal overgrowth

    After my very sincere ode to Diana, I want to ask some questions that my PCP asked me about treating this in me. One, she prescribed 500 mg flagyl three times a day for two weeks, which may continue but we will re evatuate before then. She read that that needed to be paired with another...
  17. Kimberly B

    Diana Cox, the most amazing advocate and support person ever!

    I'm new here, but old to the DS. I had it done in 1999 by Dr Robert Rabkin. There was no lap done then, and it was a long time ago...I have been relatively blissfully unaware most of the time that I had had the DS, I got yearly labs done, adjusted the vitamins accordingly, and I was fine. Or...
  18. Kimberly B

    Talking to Your PCP About the DS

    Diana This is a godsend! I am 15 years out, as you know, and thank you, thank you, thank you! Kim
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