Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Wheat, GI, celiac, turkey bacon, 2xSF, pancakes, grapes

Well, wheat and whole wheat are two different things. I tolerate wheat perfectly, but not whole wheat. I know in an earlier post you said you had a colonoscopy to rule out gluten intolerance/celiac, but that doesn't really do it as far as I know - you need bloodwork and/or an endoscopy. I would definitely say take a look at the tests/conditions Heather says you need to consider and make sure you've had them all. I'm still a little concerned about your earlier comment that you feel you got worse when you started on Heather's diet - that always makes me think about gluten problems and celiac disease is nothing to fool around with.

Assuming you don't have wheat problems, try Kree's Super Low Fat Pancakes - use all wheat flour, no whole wheat flour. They're yummy and super tummy soothing.

For me, turkey bacon was a 6-months down the road food. I don't know if it's still relatively high fat or if the curing bothers me, but for me turkey bacon equals serious burbling. I'll use it now for flavoring, but always buried in SF.

My approach at the beginning was twice as much SF as IF+protein NOT counting my SFS. In other words, twice as much SF FOOD. For a while I ate a handful of pretzels before every single lunch.

It takes time, but my tolerance did improve. I know I won't heal from IBS, but I do believe that the longer I go without my gut in an uproar the better able it is to regulate itself. I have a bowl of grapes sitting on my kitchen counter and once I get past lunch (so I have a fair amount of food in my system), I can walk in and shove a couple in my mouth - without eating SF immediately beforehand. But it took me more than 6 months to get to that point.

HTH. Take care. And make sure someone has checked you for gluten intolerance/celiac.

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