Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Kind of an embarassing question, but oh well...

So I am new to this site, although not new to IBS, unfortunately - I have had IBS-D since I was a kid and after years of useless and expensive doctors' visits had pretty much decided I wasn't going to be able to get any help - until about a month ago when I stumbled on this website. This diet has literally changed my life. I cannot remember a day when I did not have stomach pain, and now I have been pain-free since the second day I dropped dairy and coffee! Plus I'm losing weight! It's amazing.

But I do have kind of an odd question, and I figured this was the best place to ask it. Since I started following the high-soluble and low-insoluble fiber diet and avoiding all trigger foods, I have not any diarrhea or cramps at all, and for the first two weeks after I started, every day I was having "normal" bathroom experiences. But in the last week or so I have noticed that I have gone one or sometimes two days in a row without needing to go to the bathroom at all, and then when I do go to the bathroom I'm not passing a lot. I have had no pain and do not feel constipated or uncomfortable at all, but I have NEVER had a day in my life that I can remember where I didn't have to go to the bathroom. Is this constipation? Or is this actually how non-IBS people lead their lives?

You can see that I would not feel comfortable asking random people about their daily bathroom habits, but everybody here seems pretty comfortable, so I thought it was worth an ask (and it might be worth a chuckle).

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