Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Can you be more specific?

Can you be more specific? Is this an obsessive thing? I know foods with seeds bug me and skins like peppers and tomatoes and grapes and plums and peppers make me really ill. I know the seeds of bananas bother me. I just generally don't eat them. I know that there is something about the texture about mashed potatoes that really makes me gag. Ditto for liverwurst or "cheese wiz." I know that looking at cereal in a bowl makes me thing of dog food and nauseates me. I know that looking or smelling cream of wheat or cream of rice just gives me the heaves--that sort of baby barf feeling.

I think everyone has some sort of food issue. I wouldn't worry about it. He's quite an adult and well...nobody can force us to eat anything.

I think that people can be quite healthy choosing not to consume that which engages their gag-reflexes. (I'd better shut up before I get into the whole "special sauces" issue and "squirt" bottles, lol.) Seriously...just let it go and, laugh with him about it.

Kate, IBS-D.

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