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Hi! I found this wonderful place through a Google search for "IBS diet" and have spent the past couple of days reading, reading, reading. I've ordered the Starter Kit, and I'm really encouraged to find that I'm not alone.

After a decade of chronic constipation and more recent episodes of month-long bloating, tightness, and pants that don't fit, I got referred to a female gastroenterologist who my gyno doc assurmed me would take my complaints seriously. Over the past two weeks, I've had a GB ultrasound, nuclear medicine test for gall bladder function, an endoscopy (or whatever they call it now) and a colonoscopy.

Everything's "normal."

The doctor wrote on the discharge sheet after the endo/colo: "Spastic colon. Possible IBS. Fiber. Manage stress. Resume normal diet."

Gee, thanks, doc.

I spent a couple of days eating my regular diet and cramping/bloating, and realized I needed to take charge of this myself. No one knows my body's sensitivities as well as I do, and I'm sure doctors see patients in far worse straits than me every day, so what's big and important to me just...isn't...to them.

I haven't pooped much since the colonoscopy on Wednesday, but I'm not too surprised by that. I'm back on my typical 17G Miralax and twice daily two capsules of Citrucel and I'm sure stuff will move when it's ready.

I went out a Chinese restaurant last night, and thanks to this message board, I knew to order steamed chicken & vegetables and white rice. My gut is "quieter" today than it's been in a long time!

I would love to hear from folks who are trying to feed their families a regular diet, while not triggering their own episodes. We've basically given up our favorite foods -- manicotti, spaghetti & meatballs, pizza, chili -- because they all make me feel so rotten. But how much chicken and rice can a person eat?

I'm going to the store in a bit to get the ingredients to make the Anti-Depressant Brownies to take to a friend's house for dinner tonight, along with the leftover steamed chicken and rice from last night, in case she's making something I can't eat. Fortunately, she's a good enough friend that she won't mind me bringing my own dinner!

And just so this post isn't all the "me hour", here's a food that I've found is safe, convenient, and delicious: Van's Wheat Free Gluten Free mini waffles. They're dairy and egg free, too, made from brown rice flour. I find them in the organic freezer case at my regular grocery store and have them for breakfast with about a TBSP of syrup.

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