Think about this. How can problems with our digestive tract not have anything to do with the foods that are digested there? It absolutely cannot be possible to have a functional bowel disorder have nothing to do with food. It would be like having garden problems and believing they had nothing to do with soil.
Everyone who has ever reached stability and then eaten badly and gotten ill, sometimes for weeks after from one slip up, can tell you with certainty that food caused their reaction. Unless you have no symptoms and have reached stability there is no basis for you to make the statement that food has nothing to do with your symptoms. If you are having any symptoms then there is room for improvement. You can't cure IBS but you can hope to live nearly symptom free from day to day. If you are not, isn't it possible that you are wrong and diet is important? Do you really think that if diet didn't improve IBS that Heather would have helped stabilize so many people who follow her advice? and do you really think you are either so much different than all those thousands of IBS sufferers or so much more astute than them?
I hate to say this but you are right, this is a website focused on improving IBS through diet and other things. The diet is the main part. I'm not saying you shouldn't post but be aware that the whole basis of this forum is to discuss getting stable primarily by means of the food that goes through our digestive tracts. If you haven't discovered what foods should be avoided, please keep trying. Many people don't get immediate results because they aren't in fact eating the right foods but think they are. I had a hard time finding the right foods at first. I ate soy nuts and PB roll ups and stuff not real safe, thinking I was eating safe. It was the old pros on this forum (who are now gone) who helped me get it right. They used their own time and experience to gladly help others. I am grateful for that and hope my time and experience can help others too. Many posters on this forum now would rather get offended by someone trying to help than to be even a little appreciative that they are really trying.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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