Ibs people help please low fat.

[Andtheworldwentwhite]

I have had ibs for years and have sorted food out like we all do. Know what I can eat and what I cannot.

After a dash to the hospital yesterday in an ambulance it would appear that my ibs has gone up a notch and fatty foods are now off my list ( it’s a whole long story where they thought it was my gall bladder but it’s not)

Anyway. I was wondering if any other ibs sufferers out there have to worry about this I know it is different for everyone. Do u have a fat % limit that u go for? Or do u just have as an example a piece of cake once a month. Any advice would be good.

Two things: have you had a faecal elastase test done? So called IBS that is triggered by fatty foods very likely could be pancreatic insufficiency, which means the pancreas doesn’t make digestive enzymes to allow you to digest fat, causing IBS/IBD like symptoms.

I have pancreatic insufficiency and while it’s treated (I take medicine with all food), I don’t specifically aim to eat a certain % of fat. I eat based on what I know will/won’t trigger symptoms. Cake, for example, is mostly sugar and carbs, not fat, that largely wouldn’t bother me. What does bother me is things like fish and chips, any fast food (McDonald’s), lots of beige fried foods, and then oddly stuff like cabbage, lots of radishes, cauliflower, etc. It’s trial and error. It will be different for everyone and mostly you want to eat in a way that helps you manage your symptoms so you feel as good as possible.

Yup. All testing is done. That’s interesting about the cake. I hadn’t thought about it in that way. Thankyou.

I just eat a fairly low fat diet - there is no particular science to it. But yes fish and chips would be my nightmare meal and make me very ill. Similarly anything beige/fried, although I'm also wheat intolerant, so I largely avoid those foods anyway. I eat grilled meat and fish, low fat yogurt, small amounts of ice cream, small pieces of GF cake, I don't eat Chinese or Thai or Indian food really as so much of it is fried. I can cope with things like tandoori chicken, because it doesn't have sauce on, but rich sauces are a huge no-no for me, plus anything that's hotter than medium spiced gives me indigestion. It's bloody annoying. But I've learned that it's better to eat nothing than to be ill for a day.

@cheezncrackers im dairy and wheat free as well. Also have a bladder problem which reacts to food. So now this. Well. At least all the weight I have lost over the last year won’t ever go back on again. I guess it is like it was at the beginning. Trial and error. But that trial and error didn’t involve morphine like it did yesterday. I have been through child birth but that was nothing compared to yesterday.

going on holiday next month. So that will be even harder I think. Hoping to get as much as my food in my car to France as I can.

You won't have a problem in France unless you can't get to a decent supermarket. There are GF and DF foods available in even quite small supermarkets and they have all the foods we have here.