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I "got" IBS-C in January 2004. I didn't find out I had it until March and didn't get the whole laxative thing down until April. I was on Zelnorm and things weren't too bad. The only time I was bloated was if I was super C. And then my eating disorder got really bad over the summer and I subsisted on less than 400 calories a day. Those were glorious, glorious days as my IBS was practically non-existant.

Then I started eating more, slowly, and eating really healthily - whole wheat, no sugar, no fatty foods, etc. I would get bloated, but usually only after exercise or maybe one or two times a week... and it was never very bad, just enough that I wondered if I'd gained weight or if it was bloating.

My "9-months-pregnant" bloating started in December, when I was stressed out for finals. I'm sure I'd been super bloated once or twice before that time when I was super C, but it obviously wasn't a constant thing, or I would remember it. (I might "feel fat" a day or two a week, but it wasn't as if my pants didn't fit.)

I found this site and started the elimination diet right before New Year's. I was finally feeling good and things went pretty well for a couple weeks and then it's all been downhill from there.

I don't cheat. I follow the diet absolutely and I take my SFS (I use Citrucel and a little bit of acacia daily), I take my miralax & magnesium, I take all sorts of supplements. I'm not worried about what I'm doing now, because it is "working" somewhat, I'm concerned that my IBS has progressed into a disease that is roughly 250% worse than it was when I wasn't following the diet or taking medicine. Oh, and my stress levels are the same or less than they were last year, so it's not that. I just got engaged and I'm HAPPY except for a disease which seems to just get worse and worse.

So, my big question is: Is it possible for IBS to do this, or is it possible that I have something else that has the same symptoms as IBS? I've not been tested for anything because it always seemed like I fit the IBS characteristics to a T. But now I'm wondering...

Thanks!
Elizabeth

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Elizabeth

all those years it wasn't IBS - it was celiac!
send me an email: liz@dopple.net

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