Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

This has come up a couple of times, but has never happened. I can't speak for Heather, but I do remember reading at one point that she is maxed out on the number of Boards she wants to run. (Can't really blame her - this must be a huge undertaking even apart from paying for all the storage.) I remember that someone recently started a Yahoo Group for IBSers on this Board who had had an eating disorder. Perhaps you could do the same for IBS-C people who want to caucus separately. If there get to be enough Yahoo Group spin-offs, y'all could ask Heather to do a sticky post at the top of the Board listing the various ones.

Having suggested a way to get an additional site, I'd also like to make the case against it. I've come to realize that IBS-C people do see themselves as very different and they may be - I'm IBS-D so I can't really comment on a personal level. As far as I know, though, there are only 2 differences between IBS-C and IBS-D people in terms of Heather's guidelines:

1) IBS-D people can get away with not eating IF and fat as far as their bowels are concerned; IBS-C people cannot get away with that. In terms of overall health, though, the guidelines are the same for both Ds and Cs: eat as much IF as possible and go low-fat but not no-fat . Ds can choose to ignore those guidelines and their guts won't punish them, but they'll pay for it down the road in terms of general health.

2) IBS-C people probably need more SFS.

In terms of finding Heather's diet confusing, my feeling is that the Message Boards can be very confusing because they deal with the diet at the margins. Here is where people talk a lot about what parts of Heather's diet don't apply to them individually, both in terms of Heather foods they can't eat (I can't handle whole wheat under any circumstances) and in terms of non-Heather foods they can eat (I can drink wine from time to time). My suggestion is to go back and read the basic information on the Website outside the Boards and see if that makes things clearer.

More specifically, I don't know if you've seen this FAQ. If not, maybe it will clarify things a little. Also, if you missed them, you might check out the 2 newsletters this past summer that dealt with IBS-C.

HTH.

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