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Read the section on "Milk and IBS" in the third article in my signature. It isn't just lactose in milk that can be a problem for IBSers.
Slow digestion will not likely effect the results. If you have lactose or fructose intolerance it means you cannot digest these sugars and they pass through the small intestine where they are normally absorbed to the colon where they are fermented releasing hydrogen and other gases. The reason you blow in the bag is to see if the sugar has reached the colon where it is fermented producing hydrogen gas instead of being absorbed in the intestine.
Thanks a lot. Reading over the article now. The best advice I have been getting, even after seeing 5 doctors already, continues to be this board. I did just get some testing done at the UofM and they were the first place to even mention anything about FODMAPS or anything else that seems to be helping tremendously. This board certainly is a great collection of advice.
I have one additional question that I don't believe I've had a concrete answer on. It seems as if I need more calories now than I did before. Is it possible, if I have some type of malabsorption, that the calories are not getting absorbed into my body? So, instead of needing, say 2,000 calories to maintain my weight, I would need maybe 2,500 calories if I made no changes to my diet. I have tracked calories for quite some time and something seems to be up.
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Likely IBS-C and Fructose Malabsorption
Undiagnosed and going through testing process
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