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Long time, no talk I know! The meds for my fibro put my IBS into remission so I've been doing really really well. Up until now, less than 2 weeks from my wedding ::head desk::

Anyway, I am sure if any of you are sensitive to MSG or not but I am in some rough shape right about now. Sunday night my family ordered Chinese. I normally get sweet and sour chicken and white rice which is a pretty safe choice for me (maybe not for others). I decided that I wanted lo mein instead. I ate it and within 2 hours I was in the bathroom dying for hours. It was wicked. I swore I had a SV. It hit too fast to be food poisoning but I figured there are SV's going around and I normally don;'t get THAT bad from an IBS attack.

Fast forward to today, Tuesday. I felt fine all day. I was successfully eating yesterday, no problems. I ate lo mein for lunch...2 heaping bowls of it. Within an hour I was back int he bathroom with watery D again... a ton of it.. oddly though, my stomach isn't really hurting. I don't feel sick at all. It just hit me suddenly and it was so odd! Could this just be a bad reaction to MSG? I called the restaurant and they said they do have MSG in their soy sauce (something I never usually have because sweet and sour stuff has none on it)... I am putting 2 and 2 together and realized that I get like this after hibachi, too. I mean I get D... I have IBS... but nothing watery and awful like this.

I hope you're all doing well!

Teresa

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