Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Diet and Fiber worked, and then it didn't

I'm wondering if anyone has had the same situation that I'm having, and how you fixed it. I have IBS-D, have had it forever, but only got diagnosed with it in August. At that time, I started taking the Acacia fiber, followed the IBS diet religiously (no red meat, no eggs, no dairy, no caffeine, etc), and took Align. Since then, I haven't been bloated, the D attacks are gone, although I tend to be kind of constipated. When I used to eat bran and whole wheat food, I was very regular but I had D. Now the D is gone, but I'm not regular at all. Then in the last month, all of a sudden, I'm hugely bloated and have had IBS-D attacks weekly following a whole week of being constipated. But nothing I've done has changed- same diet, same medicine. Should I be putting some insoluble fiber into by diet along with the soluble fiber? Should I up the amount of fiber I'm taking? (I'm at 3 tsp per day split in 2 doses). I'm at a loss...I have no idea how to fix this...any ideas??

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