Foods Constipation and diets to reduce the symptoms is becoming ever popular with people suffering from the symptoms. I do belive that many of us are that frustrated we get to the point where we feel that ther is NO HOPE! Well Im going to let you into a little secret..............There is hope.

I'm going to tell you a story which will show you how Foods Constipation could be a thing of the past, a short story about someone very close to me. They have had many problems with their digestive system over the past 20 years or so. Most of the time relating to constipation. The doctor has decided that it must be IBS, and that there is no IBS cure as such because the causes are so varied it's hard to put your finger on the actual cause.

The doctor would therefore over the next 20 or so years send this close friend out of their surgery with perscription medication the assist with the symptoms, in the first instance constipation. At no time has the doctor examined my friends diet in any great detail, and because the doctor has perscribed medication for this particular condition my friend is must take it!! After all this is what the doctor suggests and in my friends eyes, what the doctor states or perscribes is the Gospal. Well why wouldn't it be?

In many cases including this one, offering the diagnosis of IBS takes some of the pressure off the GP. It's a quick answer to the symptoms given by the patient and doesn't need a great deal of effort or investigation on their part.

We all from time to time suffer with irritable bowel and yes there are a number of irritable bowel treatments that a GP can perscribe, but as I have explained to my friend the GP, unless you get a very good one, is on a time limit while you are in their surgery and they need to turn patients around as quick as possiable. Im not saying in your case the GP hasn't spent adiquate time dealing with you. It's just that there are other options you can look at other than taking their word that the perscribed medication will solve your problems, becasue in many instances they don't, they can even increase the problem and make it worse. In some instance you can end up with other issues caused by the medication.

Summary

My friend has been recieving medication from his GP for 20 years for a condition relating to the symptoms of IBS with no real investigation into why the symptoms are occuring in the first place. This is why I write this article on Foods Constipation and Diets to reduce the symptoms. My friend is now 65 years old and it is only now, after many years if brow beating that the message is getting home. Ask your GP for a full examination, this will mean an examination and a small camera up your bottom. But like my friend discoverd it was not as unplesant as he first thought.

The results from the examination will be discussed at a later date with your GP. Based on the findings you are able eliminate certain concerns you may have had. Further tests maybe required but your GP will assist you with these. Once you have had all the poking around you care to take and there is still no clear indication to what it may be, you can relax a little. Like my friend, always concerned the test would show up a Cancer of somekind or something very difficult to treat, he now feels a little more re-assured that it isn't.

Conclusion

This now brings me to my final point I have trying to make to my friend for 20 years. A small change in diet is needed.We have all been told to eat more fruit and Veg between 5 and 7 portions of each a day. Take on more fibre and wholegrains and eat less saturated foods and limit ore sugar intake. This is all great advice. However most people go the whole hog and make all the changes in one go, find that the body has a complete fit over the changes made which may result in the person feeling worse than they did before.

Sounds a little close to home!!!! well in my experience this is a common everyday cycle for many people. Therefore my advice would be to make small changes and keep a food diary. Put together recipies including the foods you are introducinjg and the foods you already consume. Move closer to removing the so called Bad Foods by introducing healthy alternatives, until you get to the stage where most of the foods you consume are the best or healthy options. This process could take some weeks. Therefore keep you diary at hand and complete it on a daily basis. Add to it notes on how you felt, ie: your symptoms. If you felt worse or better. Bloated or constipated! You will soon be in a position to evaluate the information in your diary. You maybe suprised like my friend that every time he consumed diary products, milk, cheese, eggs an so on, he had a flare up of the symptoms - bloating and constipation. Once he stopped consuming diary products the symptoms reduced.

In my friends case evaluating the data in the diary was straight forward, it maybe a little harder in your own case, however still keep adding to the diary until you can see a pattern of events. For example: when I eat A, I become B and C. This is not rocket science but many GP's don't always give out this advice.

Now my friend has had problems for 20 years and has found that by monitoring his food consumtion he can identify problem areas, and this can be so for you guys too.

Points:

• Make a visit to your GP and ask for further tests to be carried out

• Explain to your GP that you are changing your diet plan

• Also ask you GP if there are any alternatives to the medication you are recieving. If you have been diagnosed with IBS before I'm sure there will be alternative irritable bowel treatments on offer, no IBS cure I'm affraid but there might be an alternative you have yet tried.

• Explain that you will be keeping a food diary and document all the changes and different symptoms you have, Good and Bad.

• Make small changes to your diet and don't rush. The smaller the changes the more you will continue with the process.

• Replace unhealthy foods with Healthy alternatives, but do this over time and try to include water in your diet plan as an alternative to Tea, coffee and Sodas. Water will help flush toxins through your digestive system.

Hey guys, my friend after just 2 months of small changes and a little diary keeping has improved his symptoms changed his medication and feels so much healthier in the process. There are many different diet plans you can follow but the key is to find one you can stick with and fit around you lifestyle. Don't make it too hard for yourself or your partner to prepare, otherwise....your right. You will just give up.

Keep up with your diary and GOOD LUCK!!!

Let me know how you get on.