Thanks for your reply, and your sympathy -- i appreciate it -- this has been going on to varying degrees for 8 months -- ruined her senior year at school and we just hate to see it ruin college that she has worked so hard for and looked so forward to........ Sorry - i forgot to mention that she might have a problem with wheat. We are still guessing about all this -- she had some serious setbacks after eating wheat(white flourmore so than whole wheat it seems which doesn't sound typical IBS) -- but it was also things with alot of cheese too -- like a bagel and cream cheese(not low fat), and a piece of lasagna, and one time it was pizza --- so she is trying to avoid wheat which she can do easily at home and she has even figured it out on campus -- but a few times she's been where that was all they served and that was hard. and did cause her big problems....now i'm not sure about the wheat -- maybe this IBS stuff is more the ticket with her -- if this diet works, maybe she can try some wheat, but for now she will probably avoid it. She has been using low fat yogurt as a staple since she got sick 8 months ago -- but this week --after my husband found this website and we started considering this -- I told her to cut out the dairy completely. I'm just worried she isn't going to have enough to eat by cutting out all this stuff. I send her food every week -- and yes, she has a frig in her room, and hot pot to make hot water, a Safeway 3 blocks away, and a pretty good cafeteria. She likes to have breakfast in her room, i am sending her dried soups in the cups that you add water to -- and i will send those rice bowls too that you mentioned -- and she has oatmeal too. What do you think about bars as a snack?? I searched the board about bars and it seems like some people use them but Heather doesn't seem to think they are too good. i saw some brands that people have liked -- Gensoy and Advocare and Luna bars -- not sure whether to send those or not -- they really help her to fill in for food -- but i don't want to send anything that will be bad. That's why i thought maybe she could take the supplement before eating them ??? Are rice cakes good? Are they considered a soluble fiber or both kinds? She is C - that is what started this whole problem 8 months ago -- a big bout of C - she ended up losing 25 lbs (and she wasn't overweight) because she can't eat when she is constipated--- she's been having alot of it these last 2 weeks -- and drinking laxative herbal tea which helps her go -- but we know this isn't good as a regular thing -- so we are hoping the soluble fiber supplements will cure this problem. She is also having big problems at times with her digestion - feels like her food isn't digesting and that causes her to not want to eat also. Is that typical for IBS people? She had gained back most of the weight she lost before she left for school, but now she is losing some again and we are really concerned. She has been getting acupunture for about 6 months and that is the only thing that we have found that really really helped alot, would get her feeling so much better for days and sometimes even a week or two -- she would always have setbacks though, and then need the acupuncture to get ok. But, apparently just that is not enough. This is the worst phase this last 2 weeks that she has had for quite a while -- she is still getting acupuncture up there. I have alot of hope that the soluble fiber supplements will help her alot. She is an unbelievable water drinker so i think that will be fine -- she probably drinks about 16 cups a day at least just because she seems to need it -- which i wonder if that's good or not good -- but it will be good for these supplements........... Sorry to go on so much. Thanks for your interest.
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Re: still working on helping my suffering college girl - thanks for any help
