Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Desperate For Some Answers

Hi Kimm!

I'm sorry things haven't been going too well vis a vis your tummy.

Please don't despair. It is possible you may not be able to tolerate everything mentioned in Heather's diet. I know I can't. Basically I find it's a trial and error thing where you have to try things out in Heather's diet and see how they agree with you. Some IBS people can tolerate more things than others. Unfortunately, if something doesn't agree with me, it can cause a terrible attack that can take me up to two weeks to recover from so I am usually very cautious with trying things!

For the next day or two, if your tummy is bad, you might want to stick to something very easy to digest to give your tummy a chance to recouperate. For example, you might want to have some plain steamed white rice and some plain baked (skin free, fat free) chicken breast. Heather recommends peppermint tea, which I find is excellent.

Have you been positively diagnosed with IBS? Perhaps you have something else. It took me almost 45 years to find out I had IBS and to figure out what I could eat and what caused me to have an attack. I wish I had discovered Heather's website a lot sooner.

I note you live in the Toronto area. I live there too. Did you know there is an IBS support group here in Toronto? The web link for this group's meeting schedule is http://www.ibsgroup.org/main/meetings.html#ON

The next meeting is on Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 7 p.m. at the Mount Sinai Hospital (15th floor classroom) on University Avenue in downtown Toronto.

I hope you feel better very soon. Please keep me posted on how you're doing.

Belinda

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