IBS

I found this GREAT article in the stream of our friends on facebook (who 'Share' interesting things they find).  read more »

"If you have any 'chronic symptom', you should be suspicious of delayed food allergies," was how Scott Rollins, MD, started off his weekly health segment on the local morning television news.   read more »

Again, we know there are many people who do not have access to watching this important show today by Dr. Oz who can benefit from the information so we watched it and have partially transcribed and then highlighted the details of  The Hidden Epidemic: When Bloating is a Sign of Something Toxic.  read more »

Lumigrate's nutrition expert, Deirdre Rawlings, PhD, ND, MH, CNC has FREE seminars and I encourage everyone to sign up with her website in order to receive the notices directly, but we'll keep you posted here as well. 

In order to encourage you to sign up, I have cut and pasted below a message that I received on facebook since I am part of this loyal following of Deirdre --- (And then the link to go and sign up is:  www.foodsforfibromyalgia.com/free-seminar.html. )  read more »

This is our first "imaginary patient/ consume"r that we'll then ask ALL our experts -- which means those of YOU who have fibromyalgia and the other conditions that you have experience and wise input, to write ...  as well as the medical providers we now have in our midst here at Lumigrate.  Please start others, such as a male, a younger woman ... just start a new Topic.  read more »

Having suffered with IC, CFS, IBS, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain for over a decade, and having to take increasing amounts of narcotic pain medications, antispasmotics and other medications that interefere with normal bowel functioning, a very simple, albeit messy, recipe for an enema was introduced to me during a hospital stay this last year. As you may know, a bowel full of feces can likely increase pain and cause other symptoms such as urinary retention.  read more »

This is certainly an area that is important within the fibromyalgia community, and there are many with FMS that know a lot about this who hopefully will write.  Many come here looking for information and have an open 'head' to learning about integrative medicine concepts, including digestive issues.  Also, since we've been on Lumigrate the longest (those with FMS,  likely are 'ahead of the game' and can make an impact on others with other diagnosis or with only GI problems!  So I recommend we utilize this area here for talk about who we are and what our fibromyalgia  read more »

This is certainly an area that is important within the fibromyalgia community, and there are many with FMS that know a lot about this who hopefully will write.  Many come here looking for information and have an open 'head' to learning about integrative medicine concepts, including digestive issues.  Also, since we've been on Lumigrate the longest (those with FMS,  likely are 'ahead of the game' and can make an impact on others with other diagnosis or with only GI problems!  So I recommend we utilize this area here for talk about who we are and what our fibromyalgia  read more »

In November I received a call from one of my best friends in Grand Junction, who said 'I saw something in the paper you might want to know about".  Due to the holidays and busyiness, I called last week -- just in time to get in on the do-over meeting, as people were so scattered with the holidays the guys starting this group here realized they needed to wait until this new year to get started.  It was interesting to me that it was two GUYS who were doing a group -- it's rare!  I called the first name that was listed in the ad in the local paper, which was Alan.  He'  read more »