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I've been reading on this site for hours now. I am laughing because as I read the information on the diet it was like thousands of little light bulbs lit up in over my head. I had a particularly bad time the summer before last, I would have severe painful... okay, excruciating and scary attacks and I had no idea what I was doing wrong.

I was trying to lose weight so I had switched from my normal "junk food" diet to salads and the whole wheat high fiber diet that you hear is good for dieting these days.

As I read the list of what not to eat, I just started laughing because I was eating all of those things during that period of incredible pain and embarrassment. I went to the doctor and he wasn't very helpful and told me that I could go to a nutritionist. I didn't go and suffered for about 6 months more before I seemed to get the problem under control.

This past week I had the first attack I've had in awhile and I ate a bunch of sunflower seeds... I remember thinking, "I think it was the sunflower seeds... too much fiber???"

The diet plan makes so much sense from everything I know about what triggers my attacks that I am really just very relieved to know that I can stop trying to figure it all out on my own. I've been to other websites for IBS but this one is really well done.

Thanks a lot for your effort. It really is a painful and terribly inconvenient disorder and it's good to see someone spending some time to get information out there.

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