Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
Welcome. You're carrying quite a lot on your shoulders - and you seem to be carrying it remarkably well. I do sincerely hope this diet helps you enough to avoid surgery.
When you talk about going on "the diet" for two weeks, I assume you're talking about Heather's "Break The Cycle" diet. That does consist only of soluble fiber and you should eat only the things on the list. However, as I understand it, this isn't designed as an elimination diet. The Break The Cycle diet is to give your digestive tract only the easiest to digest food for a while so it can recover from irritation and it is intended to be used only for a few days. After the first few days, you begin adding in food that is not on the list - insoluble fiber, fats, safe proteins. Here's the web page that talks about the diet; the hyperlink to soluble fiber will give you the list of what you can eat while you're on it.
Having said that, I realize that with your multiple conditions you may need to approach this differently and I believe I have run across posts on the Board from people who have been on the Break The Cycle diet for more than just a few days.
I do not know enough about elimination diets to say for sure, but I imagine you can use the Break The Cycle diet as an elimination diet. You could try doing a Search on "elimination diet" and see what you get. I know of one recent thread that talks about this a little bit. It might help.
A couple of more specific points. Dairy is a trigger food in Heather's diet, so the milk and the whey protein may well be problems.
Have you tried baby food for those times when solid food just isn't possible? One of Heather's principles is that insoluble fiber is easier to handle when it is chopped into smaller bits. Baby food is just the ultimate extension of this principle.
I wish you all the best. The Board is a great source of support and an excellent information resource. (It looks like you're an excellent information resource yourself! Thanks.)
Take care.
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