Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
I hope you do the poll. If you don't, I may after a while. My training was as a social scientist and one of the first things my profs taught me was that things "everyone knew" were true often weren't - so I'm real big on data. Or we can wait for Dr. Hershfield's study results - maybe later this year.
As for your IBS, maybe you could try just starting over: answer Stephie's questions so everyone is up to speed on where you are now; follow Kristin's suggestion to go on the Break The Cycle diet (just SF with SFS, water, and herbal tea) for a few days; then start adding in IF very carefully. While you're doing all this, post what you're eating, drinking, and supplementing every day so other people on the Board can take a look and help you out. If it works, great. If not, then you'll know this isn't the solution for you.
HTH. Good luck.
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