Thanks all for sharing your teaching with IBS stories.
Chinagirl, I just want to say bravo to you on being able to do a lecture in front of 400 people at 8 a.m. in the morning! My IBS is extremely bad in the mornings, and if I had to present in front of that many people, I know I'd run into some trouble. Just reading your post gave me belly rumblings!
I'm pretty sure I'm going to be OK (and it helps that I don't have much of a problem with standing in front of a class in terms of nerves and the such). But, mostly, I don't want to disappoint the generous people who gave me this wonderful assistantship opportunity, and I don't want to disappoint the students I'll be teaching. I think that's what I'm scared about the most in this.
I eliminated dairy completely from my diet for about a year or so, but then my parents started drinking Lactaid Milk and I decided to give a try. To my shock and joy, it didn't have any significant effect after about a few weeks, so I started trying other dairy items with Lactaid pills, and no noticable effect. Sometimes I thought it made things almost better because cheese has a constipating effect on me.
I've read in Heather's book about milk having other things in it that are not good for a human body, so I can see why dairy should be avoided altogether. But is it possible for someone to be OK with dairy and have IBS when they are taking Lactaid? I sure hope so, because I depend on that constipation effect of cheese to keep my IBS-D in check on some days.
Oh, and yes, my screenname is in reference to Veronica Mars, which is one of my favorite things, ever.
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