Oatmeal, ugh
#132655 - 12/23/04 11:19 AM
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shandy
Reged: 12/21/04
Posts: 85
Loc: Alabama
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Three days on the diet, feeling fabulous, got cocky and had some oatmeal. I'm GF, but figured I could take it; after all, oatmeal is one of those questionable foods that GFer's might be able to handle. Oh, poor me. 10 minutes later and I have the nasty heavy feeling in my gut that's been conspicuously missing the last three days. I went from feeling energetic and optimistic to tired, depressed, lethargic and of course, bloated.
Does anyone have a quick fix to this????
Jen
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Jennifer
42 years old
Neither D nor C - just sluggish
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I'm fairly new to the boards so forgive me, but what is GF? I looked on the list of abbreviations, but couldn't find it.
But about oatmeal, I am IBS-D and oatmeal makes me bloat up and then I get D in about one half to one hour. Happens almost every time. Cream of rice and wheat don't do that do me so I usually stick with them.
Cindy
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Thanks for the camaderie... I guess the blessing is the knowledge I now have about yet another food I can't eat.
GF = Gluten Free - can't eat wheat, or apparently, oatmeal.
Jen
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Jennifer
42 years old
Neither D nor C - just sluggish
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Hi Jen - when I start to feel icky, I start pumping peppermint/fennel tea in myself and relax with my heating pad.
Hope you feel better soon. On the bright side - at least you know what's causing it so you won't eat it again. 
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the only one I ever liked was buckwheat and I tried it once.. and bloated like a balloon evne thought I had made it with safe rice milk- took mroe then 2 days to go down and I literally looked 9 months pregnant forget the 5/6 most oopses do to me!
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IBS - A
Dairy Allergic
Fructose and MSG intollerant
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Have you tried Cooked quinoa flakes breakfast cereal, or Bob's Red Mill Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal. Both are GF. I eat both as I too follow a GF diet. I am thinking about trying oatmeal. Right now I am C so oatmeal might be okay for me, who knows. All a try and see game. 
Do you have Celiac Disease as well as IBS?
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Re: Oatmeal, ugh
#132762 - 12/23/04 07:08 PM
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bevp
Reged: 04/01/03
Posts: 135
Loc: Brisbane Australia
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Jen, I haven't posted for a while but I am celiac. For an oatmeal substitute, I use a combination of puffed amaranth and rolled rice, sometimes called rice flakes. You can use either of these separately or together. I find that together, half and half, makes a good combination. I just put in water, 3 mins in the microwave, then add milk (rice milk for me).
I get my supplies from a health food store. Here in Oz you can get hot cereal from the supermarket, but they all seem to have some kind of dried fruit - which gives me bloating and d. Check our the health food aisles of the larger supermarkets.
Regards,
Bevp
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I don't think I'm Celiac - just have an incredibly sensitive digestive system. I can't eat soy either - in any form or any quantity. It's nearly impossible to eat out since everything (and I mean everything) is cooked in soybean oil these days. Although... I just figured out I can do sushi if I avoid the soy sauce! Yippeee! I can date again!
I do like quinoa, although I don't think it digests too well either - something about the little pods. It's funny how you KNOW when something is bad for you - I try to convince myself it isn't (e.g. oatmeal), but then get sick.
When I get "sick", I get a heavy, toxic feeling in my gut that is very uncomfortable, but not really painful. It happens within a half hour of eating, and feels as if I could just "go", it would be okay. Is this an IBS reaction or something different? I keep reading how true IBS causes PAIN, which I don't have... But I'm definitely miserable when I have an episode.
RAmbling on here on Christmas Eve. Having a good day though! Eating rice, rice, yams, rice, more rice.
Jennifer
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Jennifer
42 years old
Neither D nor C - just sluggish
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I find that when IBS doesn't cause pain, it can cause "yurgh", that gross feeling which doesn't exactly hurt, but definitely isn't pleasant.
Yeah, I know that feeling! I seem to get it no matter what I eat for breakfast.
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*Emma*
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Quote:
When I get "sick", I get a heavy, toxic feeling in my gut that is very uncomfortable, but not really painful. It happens within a half hour of eating, and feels as if I could just "go", it would be okay. Is this an IBS reaction or something different?
Oh MAN, that is a great description for IBS. I get exactly what you wrote, and the (thankfully) occasional extreme pains...but that was before I started to watch what I eat.
I've discovered that oatmeal, cream of wheat and buckwheat aren't good for me...at all. Yeesh.
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