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No, carbonation has never seemed to give me bloating or gas. About 7 years ago I gave up drinking it for about 6-8 months, just as an experiment to see if it would help with things like bloating, headaches, and some other general issues. It didn't help in the least, so I gladly went back to drinking it!

I am not stable yet. I feel like I'm getting there, but I'm not there yet. I go about 10-14 days doing well and then things go downhill again. These last few mornings I've had some pretty urgent, soft BMs � not liquid, just soft. I could handle that if it wasn't for the urgency! But some things have improved greatly � I haven't been C for probably over 2 weeks now (I'm IBS-A), and I haven't had mucous in my BMs at all since starting the diet. I still get wind but not as bad as I used to when I was eating high-IF cereal for breakfast (such as Raisin Bran and the like). I also take 10 grams of Acacia Fiber per day.

I've had maybe one glass of Diet Coke since starting the diet � it was one afternoon when I just had a terrible headache and needed the shot of caffeine to get rid of it. It seemed to work and didn't cause me any ill effects at all! I've been too afraid to add it back into my diet as a regular staple, though. I'm trying to narrow down all my trigger foods and I don't want anything interfering � LOL.

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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!

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