I don't blame you for being confused. I can't exactly tell you what to do, but I can tell you the few things I've learned along the way:
1. GI docs rarely, if ever, know much of anything about diet for IBS. They mean well, but it's like they don't know the difference between insoluble and soluble fibers, I swear. I just saw a new doctor this past week - not a GI doc, just a GP, but she told me to keep up with how I was eating (Heather's diet + a SFS), because that's exactly what she was going to recommend if I hadn't been doing it already.
2. I used to go back to "what to eat when you can't eat anything" every time I had an attack, but I started to feel like that was counterproductive. If I'm feeling really lousy and queasy, I might stick with it for the rest of the day, but by the next day, I'm eating insolubles with lunch and dinner, eating chicken or fish, etc. I find that I feel *incredibly* run-down and even sicker if I stick to just solubles for more than a day.
3. I don't know if you're normally a C or a D, but I found that after a month on Heather's diet, I still didn't feel all that fantastic either. I was nowhere near anything resembling stable, and in fact, I had always been a D, and now I tend more towards C. The diet change is a drastic thing for your body to process. I know that for some people, they feel better immediately, but honestly? I've been doing the diet for 2 months plus now, and I'm only JUST NOW starting to feel noticeably better.
I don't know how much of a SFS you're taking, but I didn't notice it even helping in the slightest till I worked up to 7g/day, and even so, I still don't consider myself stable.
I guess I'm kind of rambling and not really answering your questions OR giving good advice  - I just wanted to say to hang in there. You can try your GI doc's recommendation if you want, but personally, I wouldn't touch that kind of diet (a cup of bran a day?!?! ack!) with a 10-foot pole.
Good luck!
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Re: contradictory advice b/w Heather and GI doc--I'm confused
