Question about alternating
#308523 - 06/04/07 01:41 PM
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caputsky
Reged: 03/24/07
Posts: 256
Loc: Baltimore, MD
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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has any experience where they felt that they had switched to IBS-A while being on the diets, fiber, and supplements. I feel like that is what is happening to me. But it's frustrating because I'll have a "normal" day (meaning normal BMs), but then the next morning I will have one normal BM but then one looser one within an hour later. Yet, the rest of the day I will have no other BMs and feel somewhat constipated, although not greatly. This cycle will repeat itself. I am originally an IBS-D, and while my D has certainly gotten better so that it is less frequent, my BMs are not as formed as they were a couple weeks ago after being on the diet and acacia for two weeks. So I'm confused if I should up my SF or my IF? Or should I just wait it out a little and see if it is my body adjusting? I should also note that I recently went through two rounds of provera to induce my period, which didn't work but seemed to make my D worse. So maybe the hormones aren't out of my system yet. Sorry, just wondering if anyone else (particularly stable folks) found this to happen and if its normal? Thanks so much!
Julie
IBS-D, GERD, lactose intolerant
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Yup, that happened to me. I was a straight D before the diet. After a couple months on it, I was suddenly having C problems. It's just a normal part of the process for a lot of us, I think... a HUGE part of this is experimenting with SF/IF proportions, supplements, and so on, and it really does take a while to get the balance right, with so many factors. Plus, the hormones could definitely be bothering you still.
I can't even recommend which to increase - SF or IF - because it's such an individual thing, and sometimes the answer is a little counterintuitive. (For example, I require massive amounts of IF to stay stable, even though I'm most prone to D - something that most D'ers would never handle well.)
Good luck, and hang in there!
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I also took time to adjust to acacia. I could tell I liked it but sometimes my stool varied a great deal. I didn't have pain with that variance though. My stools still vary but now it is several weeks of something, for instance several weeks of going once a day very normally and then several weeks of several times a day, etc. For me the diet and acacia has stopped the swing of D to C to D that i had before. I only get D when I cheat or something goes wrong and I don't get C.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Thanks for the replies! It's good to know that this is a somewhat normal occurrence for IBS. 
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