Deborah created a curcumin patient submission and wrote about a side effect of intense gastrointestinal pain.  I asked Deborah if I could post an email explaining the situation and ask the group if anyone has any ideas to minimise or eliminate the gas pain.

Quoting Deborah Stone <Deborah@koab.net>:

  > Thanks David.  We've tried all of it.  Started over a year ago and   
  > worked well for a while. Causes problems at low dose also.  Did the   
  > same for me.  Worked great for my asthma, but the gastrointestinal   
  > pain was horrendous.  We tried it with bioperine and without, and   
  > have held our own "trials" for well over a year.  No luck.
  > Thanks for your ideas though.  I appreciate all the info I have been 
  >  able to get, but haven't found anything to work.
  > I probably wasn't clear on this:  it was the last month Bob took it   
  > that it caused the pain.  We stopped taking it three months ago, but 
  >  have continued to try it different ways to ease the problem, at 
  > this  point, to no avail.
  > Many thanks,
  > Deborah Stone
  >