Yes  I think there are all sorts of things involved, diet is key, but stress is a trigger and there are the hormones! I for instance (you can't sympathise here) find that being on the pill helps a lot with my IBS symptoms, which I only realised when I took a break from it for a month.
I use Benefiber (UK, no inulin) as a SF supplement too, there are some FODMAP friendly fruits and veggies: all sorts of berries are fine, bananas are fine (although exactly because of bananas' high SF content I get a lot of bloating!), oranges are fine (you can drink pulp free orange juice, although I prefer oranges, which I balance out with SF supplement), same for kiwi, cantaloupe, honey dew melon. Figs and dates are also OK. Veg-wise spinach is most certainly not problematic if you eat it with enough SF, peppers are fine (I usually eat them raw even), courgette, carrots, marrow, swedes, parsnips( shame I'm not much into these), tomato sauces, lettuce - all these should be fine from a FODMAP point of view, if not from the fibre point of view, so I eat them with SF supplement.
I have this added thing about smelly gas, which is really a problem. Onions, garlic, cabbage (but dairy and eggs too) cause this, which I am v disinclined to tolerate. So bok choy or bean sprouts is listed as safe as are kale or green beans, but they are not good for me - lots of smelly gas.
I am OK with sorbitol so I sometimes eat plums and apricots. Mannitol is definitely problematic so no mushrooms or cauliflower. And as I said I eat bread and pasta and soft boiled broccoli. The most favourable beans would be black beans as they have the most SF and least IF, so that's the only bean type I would have. Low fat houmous is also OK for me, but not chickpeas as such. Soya milk is v bloating, but I used to have it with porridge and I think you can get more used to it if you regularly have some, as Heather writes somewhere. Tofu is apparently completely safe!
Sunflower seeds and sesame seeds are OK in small quantities (I have a lot of trouble from too much fat). Walnuts are also fine, in fact they are v low in fibre if you eat a tiny amount. Almonds are also v healthy but v high in fibre by comparison. Nuts and seeds are more problematic from a fat point of view than IF point of view, since I never eat them on their own, their IF is almost always balanced out by the other food I'm eating.
Spices are also a great source of antixoidants and apart from garlic I use quite a lot and fresh herbs too, seeing how you're not going to eat masses of the stuff, it's unlikely to cause that much trouble I think.
Hope this helps a bit, I am sometimes crestfallen as I simply love fruit and veg and IBS restricts my natural urge to eat tonnes of these. I'd probably eat vegan (with the exception of keeping salmon in my diet) if I didn't have IBS, but hey, what can you do. there's still some scope for incorporating reasonable amounts of fruit and veg and eating healthily and the fat restriction overall may actually be good from a health point of view.
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now: stable through EFI+FODMAP dieting (no lactose/no fructose/some fructans and some polyols)
before: IBS-D(pseudo-diarrhoea), bloating, often unbearable pain esp from too much fat: Apr 2007- Dec 2010
FODMAPs: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072710p30.shtml
[I've tried VSL#3 -> I could tolerate v good amounts of IF (even with less SF), it worked great (but overall I find it too expensive)]
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