[roll021]

T-9 para for 13 years now - i get around and work full time. Everyday i wake up i feel extremely bloated and look visibly bloated. Was 32 waist at injury and now 36 waist due to bloating.

I do bowel routine with magic bullet every other day. The day after bowel routine my stomach will feel really full and i have to sit on the toilet and get rid of all kind of excess gas and goo that come out of me, which is just weird to me. anyone else with this issue?

The bloating usually gets worse when i eat so i usually skip lunch, so really i just eat a bagel and then dinner because of the annoyance of the bloating. I take Baclofen and Gabapentin max doses as well.

fyi have tried the following to fix bloating with no luck:
- colon irrigation
- laproscopic surgery
- probiotics
- noni juice
- cats claw
- no wheat diet

[Christy]

roll021, on Mar 15 2010, 10:17 PM, said:

T-9 para for 13 years now - i get around and work full time. Everyday i wake up i feel extremely bloated and look visibly bloated. Was 32 waist at injury and now 36 waist due to bloating.

I do bowel routine with magic bullet every other day. The day after bowel routine my stomach will feel really full and i have to sit on the toilet and get rid of all kind of excess gas and goo that come out of me, which is just weird to me. anyone else with this issue?

The bloating usually gets worse when i eat so i usually skip lunch, so really i just eat a bagel and then dinner because of the annoyance of the bloating. I take Baclofen and Gabapentin max doses as well.

fyi have tried the following to fix bloating with no luck:
- colon irrigation
- laproscopic surgery
- probiotics
- noni juice
- cats claw
- no wheat diet

I have the same problem, unfortunately. My stomach is always bloated which I can't stand.

[Vern]

Christy, on Apr 20 2010, 05:01 AM, said:

roll021, on Mar 15 2010, 10:17 PM, said:

T-9 para for 13 years now - i get around and work full time. Everyday i wake up i feel extremely bloated and look visibly bloated. Was 32 waist at injury and now 36 waist due to bloating.

I do bowel routine with magic bullet every other day. The day after bowel routine my stomach will feel really full and i have to sit on the toilet and get rid of all kind of excess gas and goo that come out of me, which is just weird to me. anyone else with this issue?

The bloating usually gets worse when i eat so i usually skip lunch, so really i just eat a bagel and then dinner because of the annoyance of the bloating. I take Baclofen and Gabapentin max doses as well.

fyi have tried the following to fix bloating with no luck:
- colon irrigation
- laproscopic surgery
- probiotics
- noni juice
- cats claw
- no wheat diet

I have the same problem, unfortunately. My stomach is always bloated which I can't stand.

[stillgotswag]

roll021, on Mar 16 2010, 04:17 AM, said:

T-9 para for 13 years now - i get around and work full time. Everyday i wake up i feel extremely bloated and look visibly bloated. Was 32 waist at injury and now 36 waist due to bloating.

I do bowel routine with magic bullet every other day. The day after bowel routine my stomach will feel really full and i have to sit on the toilet and get rid of all kind of excess gas and goo that come out of me, which is just weird to me. anyone else with this issue?

The bloating usually gets worse when i eat so i usually skip lunch, so really i just eat a bagel and then dinner because of the annoyance of the bloating. I take Baclofen and Gabapentin max doses as well.

fyi have tried the following to fix bloating with no luck:
- colon irrigation
- laproscopic surgery
- probiotics
- noni juice
- cats claw
- no wheat diet

I have this problem as well. It took many months before I was able to gain some control over the bloating. The biggest offendor was dairy products. Because, like you, it was mostly after I ate my Dr. prescribed me Reglan to take 30 min before meals. That helps but played tricks on my b program. now I take 'beano before and there will beano gas after.'

[Vern]

Vern, on May 4 2010, 03:42 PM, said:

Christy, on Apr 20 2010, 05:01 AM, said:

roll021, on Mar 15 2010, 10:17 PM, said:

T-9 para for 13 years now - i get around and work full time. Everyday i wake up i feel extremely bloated and look visibly bloated. Was 32 waist at injury and now 36 waist due to bloating.

I do bowel routine with magic bullet every other day. The day after bowel routine my stomach will feel really full and i have to sit on the toilet and get rid of all kind of excess gas and goo that come out of me, which is just weird to me. anyone else with this issue?

The bloating usually gets worse when i eat so i usually skip lunch, so really i just eat a bagel and then dinner because of the annoyance of the bloating. I take Baclofen and Gabapentin max doses as well.

fyi have tried the following to fix bloating with no luck:
- colon irrigation
- laproscopic surgery
- probiotics
- noni juice
- cats claw
- no wheat diet

I have the same problem, unfortunately. My stomach is always bloated which I can't stand.

me too, tons of bloting, spactic iners, and guey mucus. im so bad, im thinking of going to a bag. tried researching ibs, irritable bowle, simtons match but my dr's either dont seem to understand or care. the dysreflexia i have is the worst in 22 years

[Tetracyclone]

I have struggled with this problem a long time, including pre-injury. The intensive use of IV antibiotics during hospitalization upended years of work trying to balance my gut with good foods and probiotics. I have my favorite probiotic but also try new ones with different bacteria from time to time. Some help, some do not but it is logical that a more complex ecosystem in the gut has to be an advantage. Dairy and soy (beans, after all) make things worse for me. At the beginning my Doctor gave me an anti-fungal product to take internally.

At the time of my injury I had things rather well-balanced with only occasional use of a cascara sagrada product to help material move through the intestines. This had taken me 18 years to achieve.

After 2 years my system is finally settling down somewhat. I believe it would settle more quickly if my eating habits were perfectly consistent with my program, but I know it can be counter productive to say "no" to my body, so I have a little of something I crave and I keep it infrequent.

Progress is slow, but there is progress. Few Doctors have any knowledge of intestinal imbalance and unless they are somewhat "alternative" they may take the old line that this problem does not exist. Funny, most all quads and transplant folks have it.

That is my take: you keep at it and it gets better very slowly. Google "candidiasis". It is a complicated problem and one that many people have gone rather nutty over because they do not understand that candida is totally normal in the intestinal track and only its overgrowth or overpopulation hurt us; not the fungus itself, but its by-products become toxic when it becomes the dominant or exclusive bacteria in the system.

Once I was out of balance it was not easy to fix and there is ever after a tendency to be vulnerable to the problem.

It can be beat. Never give up and learn as much as you can.

In the past 2 months I've noticed that gas is getting out more easily. Another baby step forward. I'm rarely bloated now, just somewhat puffy.