Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Help! Newby who feels lost, confused, and afraid!

Terri:

I've had IBS probably since birth. However, I only really found out that I had it last year -- at age 45.

Up until my early 30s I had IBS-C. Then, suddenly, I began to experience IBS-D. Nowadays I am predominantly IBS-D and only occasionally IBS-C (if I don't eat my veggies).

I guess it's possible an IBS person can go through various stages with IBS in the course of his or her life. At one point, in the early 1990s, I was able to eat just about anything, with almost no IBS ill effects at all. Go figure! Now, for years though, I am on a very restricted diet to control my IBS.

I don't know if enough research has been done into IBS to know whether there are stages that an IBS person can go through, and/or why someone who is predominantly IBS-C or IBS-D could suddenly switch to have predominantly the opposite ill effect. But I bet you and I are not the only ones on this message board to experience this.

Please don't be afraid to eat! The diet information in Heather's books is also on this website so you don't have to wait to receive her books to learn about the diet.

I think of Heather as an incredibly sweet and caring person -- perhaps the sweetest and most caring in the world! -- because she posts her diet information for free on this website as opposed to someone who would seek to profit by solely making the diet information available in a book that has to be purchased.

Please feel better soon!

Belinda

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