The longest I lasted on this diet was a month. But I think you will agree that if you are on a diet for a month and after a month of eating bread and noodles and rice still cause you extreme gas and bloating, that situation is not going to change. I believe that stress worsens symptoms, it can worsen symtoms to any disease. But I will not believe it to be the cause of this. No matter how stress free I am, I do not believe that it will cause me to be able to tolerate bread and rice better. I have tried immodium and sometimes it helps, but I do already take lomotil and librax everyday, and sometimes pepto and even anti anxiety meds when necessary. But none stop the end result, they only delay the inevitable. I know in the past, people on the board have said you need to give it more time, but I guess I am not strong enough to give it more time. I just can't take it. Believe me when I say I would do anything, and if eating nothing but bread and rice brought on a miracle I would eat bread forever. But it brings me pain and I can't take that. It would be difference if I was rich and could stay home and work on this. But I have to go to work everyday and I have to fight every morning on the toilet for hours before I go to work to make it there everyday. Do I have stress, Yessss. I wrote an IBS Poem once and one of the lines goes " Nothing in the world can end this great sadness, except putting an end to this intestinal madness. Having all this agony and embarrassment for over 20 something years has taken its toll on me. But I am proud that despite it all I keep on ticking. Having not killed myself for all this suffering is an accomplishment in itself. I wake up everyday at 4:30 just to make it to work by 8:30. Most of that time is spent in the bathroom. I spend 3 hours in the bathroom whether I eat pizza or toast. As I sit here writing this my stomach burns and hurts from the small bowl of oatmeal I just ate. Sometimes I wish someone would just say, there is not always a solution, then I just could stop trying or stop feeling guilty if I give up. Or stop blaming myself thinking it is my fault because I ate that. But in reality I end up feeling just as miserable trying to do the thing that everyone keeps telling me to keep doing. I thank you for caring and giving suggestions. One thing I have noticed through this trial and error. If I have a bloated gassy stomach, it doesn't matter what I eat or drink, because with the gassy stomach to start with, anything that starts the insides churning whether water or soda or bread or french fries brings on pain.
The key is that the gas causes the pain and the pain is increased when the digestive process is stimulated. I have never found one thing that could stop my stomach from turning into a vertial Whoopee Cushion of gas.
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