Who and who does not follow a low fructose diet?
#341608 - 02/04/09 10:50 AM
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Jordy
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How do you know you have to? Is it helping? Are you just afraid not to? If you don't, how did you get past all the fructose mania???
Thanks so much. I'm so afraid and confused. I just want to feel better but don't know what is real and what is fear induced.
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Thank you so much! How did you figure this out, Heather? Where you tested? How did you escape the mania that is written?
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I don't have problems with fructose unless it's in really high amounts (like bottled apple juice). But fructose in high quantities can cause problems for everyone, not just folks for IBS, so that is typical.
If you're wondering, definitely get tested and you'll know for sure.
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I do
#341631 - 02/04/09 12:58 PM
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I was advised to follow a low fructose diet around a month ago. Ever since, my symptoms have greatly improved!
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Re: I do
#341634 - 02/04/09 01:05 PM
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Jordy
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Who advised you...a doctor? Did the doctor test you?
I'm glad it is helping your symptoms! (which ones, btw)?
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To be more specific
My gastroenterologist suggested a fructose free diet.
It took around a week before I saw improvements. I can't say for sure it was the fructose free diet, but for the last month, I haven't had any diarrhea or constipation, ive still had gas/bloating
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But you can only be sure the fructose was the problem if you have made no other changes at the same time. I did an elimination some time ago of a bunch of things at once, planning to bring one in at a time but got sick from something unrelated. It makes it really hard to find your problems/solutions if you test more than one at once or if you don't spend long enough testing something.
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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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Honestly, every few weeks I think how ironic it would be for me to someday go FF and be better! I hope crow isn't unsafe in that eventuality! 
But when I look at what foods my instinct tells me are safe for me I can see I am not FI. I haven't done a breath test of it, only diet tests. On another forum sometime ago people recommended a different way to test food allergies. Drink 3 glasses of something on an empty stomach and see what happens- like 3 glasses of milk or three glasses of tomato juice (the acid could cause its own problems though so apple juice would make more sense). If you drank 3 glasses of apple juice and got horrible D or pain it would be so obvious then. But those kind of tests are quicker but hazardous being you could screw yourself up for weeks!
Anyway, either get a FI test or try eating a bunch and see how you feel. If it is stressing you, you have to do something! But lots of people have stabilized with Heather's diet without avoiding fructose. I stabilized the first two summers really well and I must have been eating grapes and melons and sweet corn etc at that time!
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"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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