Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

Dear Linz,

I know, you are absolutely correct that I need to get all these lovely tests instead of self-diagnosing. I'm a psychologist and should know better!!! A few doctors I have seen didn't want to do a colonoscopy as my symptoms are so transient. I go for long periods of time with no symptoms at all. I've had two episodes in the last year eacho of which may have been triggered by eating whole wheat.....yet it takes awhile for my body to recover so who knows if ingesting wheat can cause the body to freak out for a long time before readjusting.

Anyway, I am going to get the tests done. Right now I'm taking pre-natel vitamins from the health food store (trying to get pregnant) and they have alfalfa, beet juice and all sorts of stuff in them (no soy, no wheat) and I wonder if they are causing me some distress (mostly just thinner smaller poops).

The benefiber I determined almost made me lift off to the moon.....and caused my husband more distress than I was experiencing! I read about it in the message boards and realized "that is causing this horrific gas". I quit the stuff and "I touched back down to earth the next day". I bought the Acadia from Heather......am I going to shoot back to the moon on this stuff too?

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