I am confused about how this just happens. Did I do something to cause IBS? For instance, I had changed my diet right before I started developing my IBS symptoms? Did that cause it? And even if I change my diet back-- that won't undo the damage I did? It would seem that if you do something to cause your body to develop IBS, you could stop doing that something and then your body would not have the IBS anymore.
Or did changing my diet just make me get the symptoms of IBS because I happened to change my diet from a diet that was similar to an IBS safe diet, to a diet based predominantly on fruit, salad, and yogurt? What I'm trying to say is did I have IBS all along and then just get the symptoms this year because I was eating those foods?
How come IBS can't be eliminated once you get it? I didn't always have this, so why will I always have it from now on? I understand that it is a brain-bowel functional disorder. But why did my brain-bowel connection used to work and now it doesn't? Can I get it to work again?
I have had sooo many tests and the doctors say it is irritable bowel. But given that all of this happened right after I changed my diet to the above (mostly fruit, salad, yogurt-- trying to be healthy!) I am very suspicious that it is fructose malabsorption? Can a person just have fructose malabsorption? I am curious if I could possibly JUST have fructose malabsorption and not IBS. Then I would only have to eliminate the high fructose foods- right? So how can one know this? It seems the only test I haven't had is that hydrogen breath test. But everything else I had (colonoscopy, endoscopy, barium esophagram, small bowel series, gallbladder ultrasound, lactose intolerance test, celiac panel) has been negative (except for lactose). How do I know for sure that this is the right diagnosis?
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IBS-C, GERD, Lactose Intolerant, "Allergic" to Legumes (Soy!), Tree Nuts.
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