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1. I don't gulp it, I drink it slowly.

2. Oddly, I don't get bloated when I sweat from exercise. I get bloated when I sweat from doing other things, anything, besides exercises, so if I am mowing the lawn and sweating, I get bloated, moving furniture, I get bloated, but exersising, no. I don't know why this happens. You know, that reminded me that I get bloated when I'm cleaning or moving things too; I thought it was just the activity that started things moving through my intestines. Usually, I pass gas or go to the restroom and it goes away.

3. I haven't measured, but the pressure and waist expand by a significant portion. I'm sorry if you mentioned this already, but how long have you had this bloating?

4. Not really.

5. Going to the bathroom relieves it momentairly, then the bloating resumes. When I wake up in the morning, I wake up that way.

6. No, I started Digestive Advantage this week and take lactaid pills. I have taken beano, benefiber, citrucell, and metamucell, nothing, are these really worth the effort. Yes, SF and probiotics really help. Believe me. I finally committed myself to the diet 100% in January; it took four months but I have a lot less pain and a lot less bloating. I know that if I stray from the diet I could just bloat up again and have an attack. HOWEVER, I've NEVER had the kind of bloating you have, where it's just triggered by water or as severe.

7. I went to a doctor who referred me to an Irritable Bowel Syndrome doctor. In all honestly, this board has been 10 times as helpful, the doctor never returns calls and when I do talk with him, he rushes me. I'm glad to hear we've been helpful. But you're doing a lot to help yourself too, by following the diet and reading the info here. Medical coverage blows, sorry for the language but it is. I understand. Do you go to your college's student health center? When I went to mine I never saw the same dr twice and I always had to explain my symptoms all over again. I had one doctor tell me to find a support group or do research online because she didn't have that much info on IBS.

Any ideas as to why I get bloated from drinking water and sweating, but not frome exercising, more importantly what I can do to stop it. I'm sorry, I don't have any ideas if you're careful with drinking and eating. Just keep on the diet, which is what you've been doing; it may just be taking longer for you to be getting results. How long have you been following it now? I've read that taking iron supplements can cause bloating and gas. Are you taking any food supplements or multi-vitamins that may contain iron? Iron is your diet is fine, you're not eating enough of it to be a problem, but taking it in a multi-vitamin could be a problem.

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