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that people who find another way and decide to leave would post about that. I think Heather's diet is fabulous, but if it doesn't work for someone and they find an alternative that does, I think that would be useful information for other people who share their symptoms and aren't finding success with Heather's approach.

I'm not talking about the posters who seem to visit the Boards solely for the purpose of bad-mouthing Heather and stick around continuing to do so - that's tacky and tiresome - but if someone has honestly tried Heather's approach, hasn't succeeded, and has found something else that works better, it would be interesting to hear about it.

I truly believe IBS refers to a bundle of conditions that doctors don't understand and that will someday get their own names and diagnoses. If you think of those conditions as being, say conditions A, B, C, and so on to Z, it seems logical to me that while Heather's approach would work for most people in that bundle (say conditions D through W), there would be some people diagnosed with IBS who have conditions that are very different (say A through C and X through Z). For those people, Heather's approach may not work and it would be helpful for others like them to hear what does.

I also think - and I know this is pretty unlikely - that it would be interesting to hear from people who've found another way after a few months and then after a year. That seems to me to be the true test of any approach - does it work in the long run?

Anyhow, just some wishful thinking. I always think it's interesting to get the story straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

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