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Well my wife will go over for the shopping and all I'll usually have on my mind is going for some wings or to the Cheesecake Factory...not so much these days though.
I've been trying not to eat eggs (whole or just whites) on top of everything else (the vegetarian thing) but I'm finding that with so many restrictions for the purpose of the IBS diet, it's just too hard (i.e. why I still eat fish). I guess I'll have to settle for being a Pescatarian. Beans and non meat sources of protein are real bad triggers for me so I can't turn to them.

What I think I'm finally going to do is bite the bullet and fork over the money for one of those food allergy blood tests. I've always known about them but didn't like the sound of paying hundreds of dollars for it. Because my IBS-D seems so ambiguous, meaning it's there every morning rather than reactive to triggers throughout the day, I can't figure out what my triggers are even though I've eliminated so much. If I could find out if and that I simply have an allergy or am sensitive to something and know what to avoid specifically, that would make things a lot easier.

Anyway, don't worry about coming across as if you're telling me what to do. We're all here to help each other and I appreciate your advice.

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IBS-D. Or so a doctor says.

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