Bill - sounds like an appendix. BTDT. Not fun, but better to have your doctor take some blood and see than wait til it goes pop.
Wuttamess - for IBS - try eating oatmeal w/extra oat bran and wheat bran added to it. Start off with just a teaspoon of each, work up to a few tablespoons of each bran in your oatmeal. Bran can 'cure' IBS but don't jump off the deep end, build up over time. I fixed my own problems eating oats w/a few tablespoons of freshly ground flax meal (grind flax seed in an old coffee grinder, it goes rancid so just grind fresh every couple days) and added oat bran/wheat bran til I'd basically doubled the volume of a package of instant oats. Cover w/boiling water (add extra) and let it sit for a minute or 3. Add some dried cranberries or blueberries if ya got. Good, good for you. Add in a glass of generic store-brand 'metamucil' every night, you'll be surprised how much this can help.
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KC Dan - Get about 4 to 6 fish oil tabs and a couple of 2000mg vitamin D3's down every day (half am, half pm), best thing you can do for your heart right now. Spend some time at this web site, this cardiologist knows his stuff, see if you can figure out something that'll help yourself.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/se...Heart%20attack