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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
Saying you didn't eat dairy is *not* the same as saying you ate dairy but you're sure it isn't bothering you. It makes it hard for people trying to help you to figure out what's wrong.
Part of what happens with IBS when you keep eating triggers is that the attacks look random. It's as if your gut can handle just so much of trigger foods then it gets an attack.
Let's say you eat dairy on Monday and dairy on Tuesday and no dairy on Wednesday. But you have an attack on Wednesday. It's not because of what you ate on Wednesday but because your tummy was so bothered by the dairy from Monday and Tuesday that any little thing upsets it.
That's why I said that the only way to know if Heather's approach works for you is to follow it faithfully for a while. If you keep putting stuff in your stomach that irritates it eventually you are going to have an attack. Not because of what you just put in it but because of all the stuff you put in it earlier.
Think of it like drinking alcohol. Let's say you have 4 shots of bourbon. Then you have a glass of white wine. You throw up. It's not because of the white wine - it's because of the 4 shots of bourbon you had before the white wine.
Some people with IBS are lactose intolerant. Even the ones who aren't have trouble with the proteins in milk - whey and casein. That's something different from being lactose intolerant and may show up differently.
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