IBS

Are you eating more fruits & veggies? More whole grains? Your body could be adjusting to a higher amount of fiber.

Before this change, I was regular..sometimes to regular.. Now I hardly have any IBS epidoses..

I was irregular for a little bit but now for the most part pretty regular. when I feel irregular I take some metamucil cookies to help with it.

I think it takes time for your body to get used to the change. I want to say it was a good month or month an a half before my tummy felt normal again.. On the upside..I don't feel half as bloated as I used too..

I suffered terribly in my teens/early 20s, but increasing vegetables and water intake along with exercise really helped me!

I have found that since I switched to a healthier diet, it has made my IBS all but disappear. I struggled with IBS since I was a teenager, and now I pretty much don't know I have it. This is the first time I have ever felt like a normal person!!

Are you eating plenty of oily fish, have you tried a course of freeze dried probiotics, are you getting plenty of magnesium and other minerals in your diet?

It isn't permanant, I have suffered from IBS for nearly 40 years and have been losing weight for over a year now, I like you suffered terrible pains when I changed my diet, but once your system gets used to your new eating habits the pains should subside.

Remember under the new guidelines for IBS they now say rather than eating wholemeal foods, which IBS sufferers find hard to digest, you should be eating white proccessed bread as well as white rice and normal pasta.

Although this does not sound right or follow what most diets sugest it does work, so if this is how you have changed your diet this could be the reason for the increase in pain.

Good luck with your weight loss x

I have had !BS since I was a teenager..in 40s now and always ate white bread and white rice.. just recently added whole grain and can say that white bread and white rice did not help me.. (White short grain rice is the only rice I will eat).. I had the worse flare ups... I am crossing my fingers now that "duties" have somewhat changed my IBS will be better.

I have IBS-C and a Gluten Intolerance.

I found in the past that if I started a new healthy diet/exercise regime after not being very good for a while, 2 days into it I would get really bad pains. I think it's just the IBS/Body's way of coping with the change. It only lasted a day or 2 for me.

Ever since I have been consistent with the healthy eating and exercise I very rarely get the pains. Ever since I gave up gluten I never feel bloated :-)

I also agree with the pro-biotic, Inner Health Plus was a life saver for me! I don't have it very often any more as my diet and exercise is working on it's own, but in the beginning it is definitely worth the money!

Edit to add: If you are IBS-C I do not recommend fiber powders etc. The colon can't handle it, it's a misconception of IBS in my opinion. Just stick to whole, natural, unprocessed foods and you should be ok.

I have suffered from IBS since I was a teenager but this year it changed to inflammatory IBS! I currently see a naturopath and take practitioner only medication which are high strength! My doctor told me to live on a high fibre high fluid diet so I added extra fibre which was the worse thing I could do I ended up being constipated for 5 whole weeks! This was while on Michelle bridges 12WBT so I was eating a high fibre healthy diet! My body just didn't want to adapt! I also am dairy and gluten intolerant which causes massive flair ups! I think IBS is a personal thing but changing your food and exercise habits does put strain on your digestive system but only for a few weeks if it continues to 4-5 weeks I would recommend seeing your doctor or health professional.

Good luck & maybe you should write down how u feel after each meal maybe u will discover the cause!

Depends on what you changed to...if you're eating foods that shouldnt be eaten then that will definately make your tummy hurt...try staying away from fatty foods and milk...and defiantely no nuts or seeds(even if you arent having problems with diverticulosis)

@lorenzoinlr i might try cutting out the gluten for a week or two,just to see,thanks

Thanks Lucy. I seldom have gluten products as I feel better without and I'd gotten into the habit following the misdiagnosis. I'd rather avoid bread and processed food anyways although vodka is a different story. Thank goodness for Chopin...

I don't have IBS but I have Constipation. I can go days without 'going' :-( Changes in my Diet (no matter which way- eat more, eat less, exercise more/less) always makes my digestion go nuts. I just give it time, at least 3 weeks before I'm able to 'go' without taking laxative pills.

You might have IBS, have you been to a doctor about the constipation?

Yes, I have. I even had a colonoscopy (@ 28 yrs old, 2008) to rule out anything serious. The end result from seeing my doctor was I needed to write down everything I eat and and when I 'go'. What I found out was that food gets 'stuck' in my colon when I eat white starches: pasta is the worst, and some hard/tough breads. If I don't eat those things at all then I'm fine. Problem is, i loooove bread, not crazy anymore about pasta since the stomach pains after just isn't worth it.