I read from a site from a gastroenterologist that said many things which are opposite what you say you should eat like to use insoluble fiber! But the thing that gets me is that she says that once you have a blood test for SIDO stomach bacteria and another blood test for "secondary antibodies" from a post infection of gastroenteritis or food poisoning which causes IBS, if you get negative on both of these tests, you DO NOT HAVE IBS! This doesn't seem reasonable. My family doctor checked my upper stomach for the pain I had, must have heard gas and diagnosed me with IBS in 2008! I never had the full spectrum of IBS symptoms but she did a massive amount of blood work. I didn't know it but she was ruling out red flags of mimic diseases similar to IBS. The proof that I had stomach problems is that I spent the household budget on GAS-X and Antacids for the next seven years. My husband, upon hearing IBS sent me to a Gastroenterologist who figured I had cancer because he didn't believe I could go from 178 pounds to 164 pounds. I was intentionally dieting but he was the grim reaper. He searched and searched for seven months with every imaging and blood work and even a liver biopsy "everything goes to the liver", he said. He found nothing. He noted that I had gained weight. Two years later, this year in June 2015, I suddenly got the full spectrum of IBS symptoms...why, I do not know. I am 65 years old and was really having crying spells, panic attacks and was going to a therapist for suicidal ideation on my part. My aunt got the flu and was vomiting and had diarrhea. She visits my mother's room every night and then I visit my mother downstairs afterwards. I believe I got that flu...perhaps. We went to the ER with my Mother who said she had the flu and was nauseous. The doctor there said she had GERD. Next we took my husband right over to his doctor with a mild stomach flu presumably he caught it, and his Doctor diagnosed Gastroenteritis. Finally, we went to Urgent Care for me and the doctor said she could help me because my medical records said I have IBS. "If I give you a laxative you will get diarrhea, and if I give you imodium you'll get constipation." Three different diagnoses for three different patients who live or visit the same house! While I have now ruled out every dangerous disease with the help of my doctors, I cannot explain the sudden appearance of the full range of IBS symptoms suddenly in June. The latest G/I doctor shook his head when I told him I might have IBS post infectious. He has glanced at all my records and colonoscopy records and wants to do an endoscopy on the only hole other doctors haven't put something in. But his office is taking its own sweet time and I am depressed about my eating problems (see my other post on that). Why the full range of symptoms now? I am not looking for a medical answer, just a scholarly one.
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Too simplistic?
