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[quote=Anonymous]Here is what helped me most: giving up oatmeal. I love oatmeal and it was my comfort food and what i ate when my gut was really bothering me. It's on every list of safe foods ever written. But when I tried low-carb for a while, I felt better, much less pain and bloating and diarrhea. And when I went back to eating oatmeal, back all the symptoms came.

Of course, without oatmeal (or bran, which i already knew was a trigger), I now struggle with constipation, although it's not terrible. What's helped most with that is Sunfiber (guar gum). This has also been found to be helpful for people with SIBO.

I feel better now than I have in years. So I suggest trying a combo of low-carb/low FODMAPS, which no lie will be difficult and truly annoying, and see how you feel. If that helps, you are eating something that is bothering you. Start with things that you tend to eat a lot and very slowly and deliberately add them back to your diet, one at a time. See if you can identify a culprit. It might be something you never imagined it could be.

Good luck, IBS is terrible. [/quote]

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