History of your IBS
#364980 - 06/03/11 04:09 AM
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prjm
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This isn't necessarily an "eating" question but...
I'm curious to know if anyone's history is the same as mine and how they are now? Although I wasn't diagnosed with IBS, I suffered from symptoms of diarrhea for a couple years when I was around 10 to 12 years old. Thankfully but without knowing how or why, things just cleared up and I was symptom free. This lasted through my teens until again without any way to know how or why, the symptoms returned when I was about 21 and have stayed since - I'm now 36.
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I come from a long line of "iffy" stomachs, but I don't think I had IBS as a kid. I remember incidences with the cheese in Italy in college and the time I ate strawberries & ice cream on an empty stomach in my 20s, but I did not get full-blown, horrendous scared-to-go-anywhere-for-months IBS until I was 32. I was diagnosed with post-infectious IBS when I was 33. I am now 39. It took a few years of following the IBS diet carefully, but I would say I'm about 90% back to normal. I eat almost almost everything I did before, just not necessarily in the same quantities.
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That's a positive thing to read!
I have Postinfectious IBS/functional GI symptoms too 
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PI-IBS-C/A nausea & very bad gastric pain
meds: lansoprazol+macrogol
started EFI +FODMAPs 1/2011. 'Relapse' for 8 months. Now partly back on track again with the diet..
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I avoid beef like the plague and I am careful with dairy. I drink soy milk and eat soy cheese, but I've been known to survive a few bites of ice cream on a regular basis and use butter.
However, I must stress that I could not handle the dairy at all for about the first 3 years.
Good luck! The IBS diet was a godsend when I found it, truly.
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Like Snorky, I'm from a line of iffy stomachs, add to that, reflux and heartburn issues.
I think I've always had a touchy tum. I remember leaving the table mid-meals as a kid. I remember trips to camp where I spent 1/2 the time running to the outhouse.... not a happy way to spend time at camp!
I went to Italy in 1993 for 3 months and ate / drank unpasturized cheeses and milk. Plus loads of rich foods, gelato, proscuitto, etc... I came home 20lbs heavier and unable to eat anything. Rice, lettuce and crackers. Ugh. After a couple years of testing and elimination diets the GI figured it was IBS and told me to drink more water. I struggled for years. I cut out red meat, pork, all dairy and fats. And still I was miserable. Then I found Heather's diet. And I was better in a few months, not great, but better!! Once I was feeling better I got lax... French fries, pastries... no dairy, pork or beef, but still fat contents that were hard on my tum, and I slid back down into eating nothing. Back to the diet. I've lost over 60 lbs. I have to watch the diet closely and eat very small meals to stay stable, but I am doing better.
I have the occasional cheat - a teaspoon of ice cream with the hubby, but I have little to no tolerance for it. So better off with soy products, which can still give me a rough time.
Heather's diet, hypno (3 times through) and acupuncture have kept me sane. It is possible, just takes time.
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Cassandra
Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never loved before.
IBS A 20+ years, Chronic Migraines, Chiari Malformation (decompressed June 22, 2010), Brachial Neuritis, and ??? the list just keeps growing, but I'm still shiny side up! 
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