What is best probiotic for ibs
Honest Gut Health Update 😠Will probiotics help my IBS? | Becky Excell
hi everyone I hope you're well now I
haven't spoken for what feels like about
a couple of months about my gut health
and I know that this is something that a
lot of you guys seem to be really really
interested in so I thought today I would
give a little bit of an update on how
that gut thing of mine is working I
don't want to call it evil cos I want it
to be a surprise how its functioning at
the moment but yeah let's do a gut
health update so let's start with how
I've been feeling since my last gut
health update I mean it was a couple of
months ago so I can't remember like
every single day or anything but I can
remember or think about the general sort
of stuff that's been going on and how
I've been feeling so for me I have
continued as I think I said in the last
one going to the toilet I have been
fairly regularly going to the loo which
has been amazing and then when I have a
few days where I don't go I am just like
the worst person to be around I am
really depressed and sad and my stomach
is really really really sore and I kind
of I know why my stomach is as sore as
it is now because when I do get to goes
for toilet it does it is a bit of a
relief it relieves my system and makes
it less pressurised I guess but saying
that I went to the toilet this morning
and I am sitting here this afternoon in
absolute agony like seriously it's
really really bad and that like bloating
this has just not really faded I go to
the loo but I'm still bloated which I
don't fully understand and I genuinely
genuinely thought that the whole going
to the loo more regularly would decrease
the bloating it hasn't it's still there
and it is really really painful one
thing that has been sort of a lot less
over the past couple of months until
very recently is that I haven't had as
much flatulence I think that's the word
I generally just say farting but you
know basically I haven't farted as much
over the last couple of months until
this week where for absolutely no
apparent reason it just started again
and it hasn't really stopped and it
really unpleasant if I'm honest in the
last few days when it's come back quite
a lot I haven't really changed anything
so I can't really pin it down to
anything and I don't know if any of you
guys are the same but little changes can
happen to how you're feeling like you
might be more bloated or less bloated or
this or that and you can't really put it
down to anything in particular which is
really really frustrating I might just
add now that I just said my stomach is
really really painful it's so painful
that sitting here in this position is
giving me really bad backache as well
and it's really horrible yeah that is
when you know that your IBS is really
really flaring for me when you've got is
just having a massive paddy is when not
only your stomach hurts be a backup so
yeah over the last few months more
growing from the toilet than not which
is a big plus for someone like me with
IBS see but the bloating is still there
the flatulence seems to be returning for
some reason and yeah I'm still not where
I want to be with my dad I think I
mentioned in my last gut health update
that I had recently been to see a doctor
on the NHS a gastroenterologist at the
hospital and they haven't been very
useful at all it was it was so
disappointing you know after waiting for
so long to see a doctor who is like
specializing in the area that you need
to see their bloody awful and what he
did was he gave me just an absolute ton
of laxatives which no I haven't taken
and my reasoning for not taking them
there's a couple firstly I have been
going to the toilet without taking them
so I don't really see the point of them
that's not really gonna that's not the
problem clearly because I'm still
bloated and secondly I don't really like
the idea of laxatives being someone who
had an eating disorder and did abuse
laxatives in the past I don't really
feel comfortable taking them anymore and
I feel quite uncomfortable that my
doctor who knew this actually gave them
to me in the first place knowingness so
those yeah those are the two things as
to why I haven't taken the laxatives
most importantly I don't think I need
them and that's what's so confusing and
why I don't get what the doctor was sort
of you know why was he thinking that
when I said
at the time that I was going to the
toilet more regularly but he sort of
thought no that's the thing that's going
to help me you know it doesn't make
sense I'm no doctor I'm a medical
professional but in my head it kind of
doesn't make sense so I have really been
thinking about like got trying to go to
you someone private because the next
appointment I have with this guy is in
January and my last appointment was like
a few months ago so it's quite
ridiculous the amount of time that it
seems to take between appointments and I
can't see him any sooner than that
so I have been thinking that in what we
betters go privately because come
January I'm going to get this point and
get all excited about it again and then
be disappointed again I feel so I kind
of do want to go and see someone else
but costs are involved private health
care and stuff and seeing people just
seeing medical people privately in the
UK is really expensive and it's just not
something although you know I do agree
with so many people that you should
always put your health first it's really
difficult if you can't afford to see a
private doctor you can't afford it and
at this stage I'm not really in the
position that I can so I guess I am just
gonna have to wait till January to see
this gastroenterologist again and hope
that I maybe I'll just have to be a bit
more forceful and say look the laxatives
aren't gonna help me I can go to the loo
my stomach is still huge what am I gonna
do so yeah that's kind of where I'm at
since that last appointment nothing's
changed because I haven't had another
appointment because what right I thought
I'd end the video by talking about a few
of the things that I'm taking at the
moment things that I have recently
started taking things that I've been
taking for quite a while but you might
already know about and maybe some things
that I'm considering taking very soon as
in like tomorrow starting them and see
if they help so obviously I am still
taking the wonderful what's it called a
prebiotic yeah so I'm still taking my
prebiotics which I take something called
by me no I take one in the morning and
one in the evening every day and I
really do believe that this has helped
with my going to the toilet I still take
them because I am terrified of not
taking them because they seem to help so
that is a massive thumbs up and I'm
still so happy with them and
other thing that I have been taking
probably for at least a month now is
turmeric so I get a little I've got a
little pot sorry you probably can't hear
me but one thing I don't like about them
is that they smell awful they actually
smell like turmeric and I think it says
on the back of the packet that you could
actually open them up and pour them in
some water but I just take them in
tablet form so yeah I have started
taking them basically off the back of
recommendations from you guys and then
just reading up on it after that so a
lot of people said that they take
turmeric and I think it's like what is
it does it say on here don't know but so
I'm not going to say exactly what it is
but it says it supports digestive and
gut health and I think my thought
process behind taking it was that it
might help to kind of like deflate my
stomach and make it feel a bit better
I've been taking them for quite a while
now and I sort of take them alongside my
by me know and I feel like maybe they
help together I don't think it's hurting
me so I'm continuing to take it well I
haven't seen like a specific change
because of me taking them I'm just quite
comfortable taking them so that's
something that is definitely going to
stay within my sort of regular daily
routine of tablets that I take but
something that I haven't been taking
which I did take many years ago those
are old timers of you or if you look
back my old videos will see that I took
probiotic for quite a long time called
sim probe and I haven't taken it for
ages now but I've decided as of tomorrow
that I am gonna start taking let's
improve again so simple is like a
probiotic which is in liquid form which
when you first start taking it as I did
very many years ago I absolutely hated
the smell of it and the taste of it but
I got really stirring kind of quite
liked it it was just circumstances are
moving about you need to keep it
refrigerated that meant that I stopped
taking it and then never got back into
the swing of it which I don't know about
you guys but it happened so much for me
with like medication and stuff forgot
health that I'll take it for a little
bit and then I kind of just forget and
then it doesn't happen anymore and I'm
now set that I am going to continue to
take this regularly
and I thought you know my next gut
health video which will hopefully be in
a month not two months I can give you a
little update on how I've been feeling
and if I notice anything different
because I'm not going to change anything
else within my diet or tablets and
medication or anything I'm just gonna do
this so hopefully I should be able to
see whether either it's helping making
absolutely no difference or actually
making me worse any of those things
could be possible but fingers crossed
sim proof will actually do the job and
combining the prebiotic and the
probiotic together might be a really
good shout for me I'm just hoping that
like I don't care if it doesn't help
with me going to the loo because already
already going most of the time yay
but I'm hoping it might just help a
little bit with the bloating on the pain
that I get as I said I will let you know
if that is the case okay so that is my
gut health update for this month I hope
you've enjoyed it and if you have got
any suggestions or things that you've
changed a recently because I know a lot
of you often write in the comments below
about how you're feeling or if there are
things you're taking but if you've made
changes since the last time you
commented let me know below because I'd
really like to know what you do or if
there's anything that helps or if you
have like a question for me like about
the things when I take or just a general
question pop it below because not only
do I reply to comments but a lot of you
guys seem to like talk to each other in
the comments which is really useful to
be able to get the perspectives of tons
of different people from all over the
world who have got health issues I think
that's really nice because it's so often
the case that we feel very isolated
we've got health problems people don't
really talk about them that much and
it's nice that there's sort of like
almost like a community in the comments
of my videos chatting about gut health
so yeah just leave comments below and
I'll go back to you and other people
might as well do so if you're watching
this and you see another comment of
someone it would be nice for you anyway
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have a good day bye
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