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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (5877)	7/14/2009 8:37:39 PM
From: spiral3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39304

From what little I know of it, I understand that IBS is very very difficult, both to live with and to cure. There is such a variety of symptoms that calling them all IBS can be meaningless in many ways. Western docs are trained to name it, blame it and tame it – they will name the disease and focus on the trying to control the symptoms. This approach while wildly effective for acute and short term conditions, (think infections and anti-biotics) in general does not work very well for many of the chronic conditions that are endemic today eg IBS, athritis, migraines etc. The danger in using drugs to suppress the symptoms (I'm assuming these were the kinds of tests your wife was in) in cases like these, is that since they do nothing to address the origins and causes of the problem, the underlying course of the disease remains unchanged, the problem persists or gets worse and the side effects can also be not very funny. There is no magic bullet for IBS, it is a complex disease process that cannot be simply reduced to a single cause across all cases. Consequently an effective treatment has to address the root problem at an individual level – IBS can be caused by many different things, of them gluten sensitivity is up there as one of the most common causes. A good doctor familiar with Functional Medicine should be able to help. functionalmedicine.org