Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | The tomatoe got me going...

Hi everybody

Another week without D!
It was a tough week for me because I had to take an airplane from Montreal to Winnipeg and I'm still so unsure about my IBS. The trip went well, even if I only slept 2 hours the night before because I was so nervous. Getting home was a great stress reliver for me (my bed is so conformtable!) and getting back to my work helped to get my mind on something else than IBS for awhile, but I still remain on alert.

So, I stuck mostly with SF foods this week. Think I had schimps once or twice (I tolerate them well). I tried to expand my diet with all the SF on Heather's list (beets, mango smooties, safe cereal, rice milk, rutabagas, potatoes, carrots and others). Tried to introduced IF by putting a little bit of fresh herbs in a carrot soup (it went well!), put soya sauce in my pasta and fish sauce in my rice. Stools were regulars and firm all week.

I still take half a Imodium every morning. I have gradually incresead my SFS to 12 grams a day. My goal is to go between 15 and 20 grams eventually.

Since I got back last wenesday, I started to get C. Did not go for almost 3 days. So I started to introduced more IF in the last 3 days in the form of a pear bread. Yesterday at lunch, I had crepes (made with rice milk, egg whites and flour). After all that, was still C. So I decided to have a homemade tomato sauce with my pasta last night at dinner. I think it got me going!!! Because right after, I was able to have a firm stool with some effort. This morning after breakfast, I went again and had an abundance of relatively firm stool. Still was a bit nervous, so here I am again. While I was reading posts, I started to have spasms. So I got up and went to make myself some funnel tea (my wife loves it too and she doesn't even have IBS!), the spasms went away!

I tried to put in place the �eat like a hobbitt� policy of Sand this week. Y� for pretzel! Does anybody have other suggestions about more healthy safe foods that you can bring with you while you are travelling. Going to Philly next week for a conference, getting nervous about it...

Still very much afraid of introducing IF and a little bit of fat. What do you guys think?

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