Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: How does everyone accept their IBS?

I don't know if I cope so much as just... coast. Sometimes I am okay with it and other times I just want to sit down and bawl over the fact that I can't eat pizza, ice cream, cheese, rich desserts, all that good stuff... possibly ever again. Other than the fact that I still get an occasional bout of C, I am almost completely stable. I don't want to rock the boat - even if it's just to indulge in pizza for one night. Who knows - if I do that I may have to start over at Square One, and I really don't want to do that.

I tell myself that there are far worse diseases to have, and not just things like cancer. Severe diabetics can't eat sugar or it could literally kill them. Eating a slice of ice cream cake won't kill me - it'll just make me sick.

I hope that healthy people truly appreciate how much they just take food for granted. I doubt they realize that there are thousands of us who can't just go out to a restaurant and eat whatever the heck we want, or have an ice cream sundae whenever we feel like it, or go to a wedding or party without stressing about having to explain to people why we aren't eating anything.

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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!

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