Elimination Diet

[nex0s]

Have you done it? How was it? Did it help with your dis-ease?

Links for my own reference:
Dr.Cranton
CFIDSETA: Honestly, I don't give two shits about Dr.Cranton. I know several people on my flist who have chronic diseases and have done this diet and IDed a number of allergies. WIth the return of my IBS as bad as it was in college I want to put a

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[nex0s]

Yeah, doesn't it?

I had acute attacks of IBS (like the one I most recently had) for a period of 4.5 years. I have eliminated the two triggers I that I believed caused it. I had an attack two nights ago, and am now thinking that the "food poisoning from the wedding that no one else came down with" was actually an attack too - but that I didn't recognize it as such after such a long period of remission.

Honestly, I am wary of discussing it with doctors. During my four years of acute attacks (often daily, 3 times a week at minimum) I was accused of being bulimic, told that it was in my head, and told to "relax more". The nutritionist I was sent to suggested also that I was bulimic despite my intense desire to actually digest what I ate.

Not a single one ever suggested to me that it might be a food related item. I discovered on my own that a lack of meat brings it on, and discovered later that cumin also caused attacks. I now eat meat regularly (and had eaten it at both meals that I recently got sick after) and avoid cumin religiously, and have not had an attack in a long long time.

Hence, elimination diet. Because honestly? I've been through this before and dont' really feel like being told "you're a nutbar" this time around.

N.

[agnosticoracle]

The key is to find a good doctor. =)

The article I quoted was written in 2000, so it isn't exactly new cutting edge information. IBS seems to be more in the news lately so you may have a better chance of finding a doctor with a clue about it. Basic advice for anyone is if a doctor doesn't listen to you take your business to one who does.

[nex0s]

After the 5th and 6th doctors, one gets a little jaded.

I have some really good doctors. These doctors were all doctors at Yale New Haven. The problem was that a lot of them "didn't believe" in IBS.

Maybe that's changed. BUt honestly, I'd really prefer to not go to a doctor with it because in this realm they have failed me rather spectacularly.

N.