Re-introducing food after a long time - bloating normal??
#3900 - 03/24/03 01:24 AM
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susaloh
Reged: 02/02/03
Posts: 96
Loc: Kiel, Germany
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Dear All, I need some expert advice.
I seem to have reached a point where I'm more or less symptom free for many days in a row AS LONG as I stick to my 'safe diet' which basically hasn't changed for the past 5 months. As you can imagine, I'm enjoying every minute after eight months of misery!
But Heather's book and this website (and common sense) seem to suggest that in the long run I should be able to eat more different foods! I hate to rock the boat
but I've started trying out other 'safe' foods. However, anything I change, even just the amounts (a whole banana instead of half) seem to give me bloating! For example, about a spoonful of sweet potato, or yesterday, a spoonful of mashed suede (a beet you cook with carrots)definitely gave me bloating. So I try something and then of course never again and I'm getting nowhere.
Now, after reading Heather's comment in a thread about soy I've come to think that perhaps the bloating could be just temporary because I haven't eaten all these foods for such a long time? (9 months?) I do take Dimeticon (is that your beano?) with varying success (then the gas eventually works its way out) but often I seem to miss the right moment of taking it.
My safe daily diet for the past 5 months: rice at every meal, small amounts of chicken breast or fish, 3/4 of an apple, stewed, 1 carrot, stewed, one thin slice of cooked or smoked cold turkey with one slice of gluten free bread, 2 or 3 smallish spoonfuls of sour cream spread over the day, a few drops of lemon juice, between meals loads of rice cakes (with tiny amounts of margerine, honey or chocolate spread). Variations: I seem to be alright with canned apricots, peaches, with the odd half of a banana,with tinned head of asparagus. I also add one teaspoonful of oatmeal to my morning rice when feeling brave. I also eat small amounts of sweets (like dinner mints) I wouldn't have touched in the past but I need them to keep my weight!
Any practical advice would be so much appreciated!!
Thanks
Susaloh
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Hi,
Hopefully it is just your body adjusting, I have read in other posts that this can happen. I'm not sure whether you are predominantly C or D but with IBS-C I think a lot of people (myself included) struggle with bloating no matter what foods they eat. Hopefully that is not you!
Kerrie
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Hi Kerrie,
thanks for replying! I think I'm predominantly the 'pain type' - with loose stools depending on how bad it gets. This basically means in bad times, I feel exactly like in the middle of a tummy bug, and that's for weeks and months. So it's more like feeling sick and discomfort than pain. Very rarely, I get D attacks with severe cramping.
Mind you, since I stopped eating dairy in November I've had normal bms for the first time ever, after a lifetime of loose stools! But you're right, even though I'm not the C type, the slower the transit, the more bloating!
Take care
Susaloh
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