Instead of giving up, how about giving that diet a chance? It's for 3 weeks, not for ever and once you have easily passable BMs more than 3 times per week but less than 3 times a day, you may start introducing the various foods ONE BY ONE from your most uptodate source on FODMAPs. Even that may be too liberal mind, it takes time for you to find what you can tolerate and in what amounts. once that is established then you may look for which nutrients you are missing out on.
Chances are that you'll have to take iron and calcium supplements at the v least and vit B complex can't hurt either. But everything else you will have even with that v limited diet. You are aware that if your diet is as varied as a normal person's but you have more than 3 BMs a day you are probably still not getting all the nutrients absorbed from the food you eat, as you have basically constant diarrhoea. so I fail to see why it'd be such a disaster to go on a diet that will calm your gut and get you all the vitamins and minerals (with the exception of calcium and iron).
Syl I believe is as sensitive to fructose as they come and he eats tomato paste, it's highly ulikely that you'd have problems from it.
I'd give that basic diet a go if I were you, and see if things return to normal after a few weeks. (If they don't then you may have some other underlying issue and my first recommendation would be to go ask for a thyroid test from your doctor).
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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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