Reged: 06/01/04
Posts: 7013
Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
Salad is often impossibly difficult for most IBS'ers to digest at all, even ones who have been stable for a long time. You might want to stop eating raw vegetables, they can be a particular problem with IBS-D'ers... and they might even be causing your gas problems later in the day as well.
If you like some sort of cold vegetable, cold cooked vegetables with a bit of SAFE low-fat salad dressing is actually a whole lot tastier than it sounds. Carrots are especially good this way, and they're one of the safest vegetables for us.
At this point in time, you should be more concerned with eating soluble fiber foods (pasta, rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, mango, bananas, applesauce, etc etc from Heather's list) than insolubles. Not getting enough solubles could be why you're continuing to have symptoms.
Do you take a soluble fiber supplement?
I wish I knew what to tell you with Louise, but unfortunately, my relationships (and my attitudes towards them) have been quite a bit different. I hope the two of you can work things out!
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Carrots are especially good this way, and they're one of the safest vegetables for us.
