Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

I immediately wonder if you are celiac? d is certainly a main symptom of celiac. Try going gluten free for a while. You will know quite soon if you are gluten sensitive if you do. Go to your health food shop and get some rice bread. You will need to toast it! Substitute that for your normal bread. Make sure you eat nothing with gluten in. To start I would suggest the bread substitution thing, also soy products I find too harsh, try switching to rice milks, rice products. Much gentler on the old system. Get rice cakes, rice cereals (all from health food shops) gluten is everywhere in products, you have to be careful. I have suggered with ibs forever! and couldn't get better even on Heather's diet (which I stil follow though, just modified for no gluten), once I went gluten free recovered almost overnight from the severe bloating that I was getting. I used to eat a tuna sandwich (fine for ibs) but couldn't understand why it made me bloat. Now I can eat a tuna sandwich with toasted rice bread and all is fine! So, maybe give it a try. Celiac is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions out there. Good news though, I didn't really need any doc. to diagnose it, just stopped eating it and got better. Good luck, Neeta

Print Remind Me Notify Moderator