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Welcome to the board.

It would be helpful if you listed all the foods and snacks you have eaten in the past 2 days so we can make some suggestions. Did you eat the skin of the baked potato? What veggies and fruit are you eating?

When you say you switched from IBS-D to IBS-C do you mean the bowel movement frequency decreased to less than 3 time per week or do you mean you still have frequent bowel movements each day but you pass small amounts of hard stools?

While it is nice to be able to eat insoluble fiber many of us with IBS-D find that insoluble fiber exacerbates our symptoms so we try to keep soluble fiber as high as possible and insoluble fiber as high as possible but usually much lower than soluble fiber. It can be difficult because most soluble fiber foods contain insoluble fiber as well. Soluble fiber supplements are the exception because the soluble fiber has been separated from the insoluble fiber.

Let me give you an example. I am quite stable and I like to experiment to figure out what new things I can add to my diet. Yesterday I experimented with a very small serving of Stacy's pita chips. These pita chips contains small amounts of oat bran and whole wheat flour. Early this morning I woke up with cramps and D. Other times when I have increase insoluble fiber I have many bowel movements with small hard stools. So while in theory it is nice to eat insoluble fiber if you are IBS-D many of us just cannot do it! Also, the IBS research shows there is little benefit from addition insoluble fiber to relieve constipation. Soluble fiber on the other hand delays emptying of the stomach and slows small intestine transit time. It seems to be moderately effective for D.

Reference
Tan, K. Y., & Seow-Choen, F. (2007). Fiber and colorectal diseases: Separating fact from fiction . World Journal of Gastroenterology, 13(31), 4161-4167

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