Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
Oatmeal is one of those half and half foods - about half SF and half IF. It appears on the SF food list because even though it's half IF most IBSers can tolerate eating it as an SF food. That is, the IF that's in it is easy to handle.
That's not true for everyone, though. Based on the totally unscientific method of what I remember reading on the Boards, I'd say close to half the posters who've tried it have trouble with oatmeal especially as breakfast. So don't feel too weird.
Brown rice and corn meal are two other half and half foods that are on the SF list but I'm don't think that means they would necessarily be problems for you. I can use corn meal as my SF; don't do well with oatmeal; and have never tried brown rice (I hate it). It sounds like your food log is doing a great job of pinpointing your problem foods so rely on that.
HTH.
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Re: For anyone else that has difficulty with oatmeal
