Ibs

[wednesdaygirl]

Just been told on friday i have ibs

Dr said to cut out
Dairy
Eggs
Red meat
Bread
Onions
Peppers
Alcohol

What can i eat ð??­ð??­ð??­

sounds a bit drastic. Have you to add them back in gradually at some point?

www.nhs.uk/conditions/irritable-bowel-syndrome/pages/treatment.aspx - is it the low FODMAP diet?

he also shouldn't be telling you to cut food out without directing you to foods you can eat. have you seen a dietitian too?

No dietician

you need to see a dietician. you can't just stop eating all those foods, you'll go nuts for a start.

I tried the low residue diet for IBS, which didn't work. mine pretty much vanished when I stopped eating gluten. I'd seen the dietician a few times and had all the joy of a colonoscopy and blood tests first.

Where do i find a dietician

nhs referral (sp?).

I know I saw one when I was just seeing my gp then had a couple of further visits after the consultant had finished with me a couple of years later.

Agree that excluding gluten may well be the answer. I have had IBS for donkeys years (50 this year). If i don't eat gluten all is calm. If I fall off the wagon it is straight back to the cramping and diarrhoea. Still daft enough to do it sometimes though.

That is an impossible diet.

Doing ok so far re food
But was up till 3.30 this morning in tears wondering why i should live

All very dramatic i guess feeling better when alarm went off at 6.30am

That's stupid advice!!!

As a former IBS sufferer, I can recommend that you look into low carbing (which will allow plenty of dairy, eggs and red meat!)

The FODMAP is a very similar approach.

Good luck. It's a horrible thing to suffer from.

Thank you

When my attacks are bad I find sticking to chicken/salmon/prawns, rice and spinach/rocket for a day or two pretty effective at calming things down. Eat more widely at other times along fodmaps lines.
here is a list of FODMAPs trained dietitians.

I have IBS I was advised to cut out food groups slowly then reintroduce them if it had no affect. I started with gluten which had no effect and finally figured out that it is dairy.

I can't see how cutting out everything in one go is supposed to help you find your triggers.

Have they tested you for coeliac disease before diagnosing you with IBS?

I did the fodmapp diet. it worked for a while, i was able to add in food that had given me a lot of discomfort.

An exclusion diet is hard but we need to somehow give the gut a rest and give it time to heal.

I have permanent bowel damage from food poisoning.