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Your symptoms sound a lot like my symptoms -- I think you belong to the IBS-D crowd

I too cannot tolerate soy. I know exactly what you mean about the shakes, dizziness, nausea, etc with IBS-D. While I still have some pain the shakes, dizziness, etc are nearly all gone - most of the time. Two things helped control the symptoms.

First, I dramatically decreased the amount of insoluble fiber in my diet. Salad bars are no longer the rule. In particular I removed all insoluble fiber from whole grains & flours and raw vegetables. I began to peel and boil vegetables until they were soft. In addition I increased my soluble fiber intake to the point where I was sure that every meal/snack contained more soluble than insoluble fiber. This change alone made a big difference.

The second major change came when I removed artificial sweeteners particularly sugar alcohols such as sorbitol and mannitol and I significantly reduced consumption of foods, sauces and condiments containing high fructose corn syrup, honey and excess fructose fruits (apple, pear, grape, mango, etc) and their juices.

It will help if you establish a base diet to which you can retreat when you experiment and/or your symptoms flare-up. Heather's eating for IBS diet with excess fructose foods removed is my base diet.

When they do a colonoscopy they can visually examine for things like inflammation, ulcers, polyps, constrictions, etc that may produce IBS like symptoms.

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