Cause and Treatment

She couldn't look after herself for the first year or two. I did everything for her. It took a long time for her weight to return and the first months she was visiting the toilet 25 times within every 24 hr period.

The 'remedy' for this was antibiotics.. various different kinds. They almost always made matters much worse and the only response from Consultants was more antibiotics and to be told by one Consultant rather curtly

"well, I have taken them and they work for me"

After 3 years she finally had an answer to why this had happened to a certain extent, but not what to do about it or make it all go away. It's called 'Radiation Enteritus' apparently.

Here is what Medicine Online has to say about it:

http://www.medicineonline.com/articles/R/2/Radiation-Enteritis.html

Basically it means the damaging of the healthy tissue in the bowel that can happen when Radiotherapy is used. A unwanted side effect!

We have tried various diets and methods. Nothing seem to work. I wrote 2-3 years ago to Jan de vries, a practitioner of alternative healthcare and although he kindly wrote back and tried to help the herbal remedies didn't have any beneficial effects. Having said that, they had no bad side effects either which isn't something you can say about pills and potions from a GP usually!

I have started more recently in compiling a chart of daily trips to the toilet. We discuss bowel movements every day anyway so i thought i might as well document them to see if there is a pattern or something helpful that can be gleaned from the information collected.

Here is the chart for the later half of May 2008 when i started:

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