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Stable general means you can carry on your day without IBS symptoms interfering too much.

It can be minutes, hours or a couple of days after eating a trigger foods before you experience IBS symptoms.

It is difficult keeping a food diary and trying to make sense of it. Over the past decade or so there has been a considerable amount of research into what foods to eliminate in order to manage IBS symptoms. In particular, the FODMAP approach outlined in the first two links in my signature has been clinically tested on IBS patients in the UK, Australia and a trial is underway in the US. The first article was written by a dietitian and it give guidelines on what foods try to eliminate to reduce IBS symptoms. You may find it helpful in making sense of an elimination approach that has been shown to be useful.

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STABLE: ♂, IBS-D 50+ years - Science of IBS

The FODMAP Approach to Managing IBS Symptoms
Evidence-based Dietary Management of Functional GI Symptoms: The FODMAP Approach
FODMAP Chart & Cheatsheet
The Role of Food & Dietary Intervention in IBS

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