Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Very curious-Could it be daily patterns? rather than what you eat?

I agree with everybody else - my body confuses the heck out of me! I have been keeping a food diary for about a month now and still haven't found anything. I can go days of eating nothing but rice, white toast and herbal teas and be sick as a dog. 6 months ago, though, I could eat Pizza Hut pizza (if I took a lactase pill) and hamburgers and fries.
Just last week, when I was going through a particularly hard time, I could swear I smelled McDonalds cheeseburgers with pickles (I dunno why, I just thought I smelled it all night) so I got a major craving. So on the weekend, I went out and ate one. I passed on the fries and drink, just had some water and took peppermint capsules but I ate a _double_ cheeseburger (with pickles!) and I was fine. I was worried all night, but I was fine. Fine the next day too.
I am starting to think that even though food is obviously also an issue, my main trigger (or whatever) is stress. My worst attacks are always from upset, not from food. If I am upset, and eating poorly than I get to the point where I want to die I feel so sick but that's another story.
Maybe it's true that if you are eating well all the time, and say you've had a bunch of insoluble fiber in the morning and some gentle exercise and you eat something you shouldn't, your body can tolerate it. If you did it again, though, it'd say, "No way, girlfriend!!". I don't know for sure, and don't really want to test it.. That one cheeseburger I had was probably the best thing I think I've eaten in 3 months but I'm not going after another!
--Steph

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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
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