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IBS is complicated. Psyllium tore me apart inside. In fact the thing that worked best was cutting out as much nuts and vegetables as possible. For other people
by debacle 3y ago
IBS is complicated. Psyllium tore me apart inside. In fact the thing that worked best was cutting out as much nuts and vegetables as possible. For other people it's pork or coffee or certain sugars.
It's definitely a disease we need to learn more about.
- reedf1 3y agoYes definitely. Many things initially recommended to me were actively detrimental. There is no one size fits all treatment.
- bena 3y agoThis makes it look like IBS is more a symptom for a host of related diseases rather than a disease on its own. Which is the tricky thing about diagnosis that a lot of people don't really get. Symptoms are sexy, symptoms get the headlines, symptoms get treated. But sometimes multiple diseases present with similar symptoms. And for all we know about medicine and the human body, there is still a lot we are unsure about. So a lot of the time, symptoms are all we have to go on. And it sucks for you while we're figuring it all out, and I do sympathize, but I can't help but be fascinated by medicine and biology when I run into these situations.
- senectus1 3y agoCoffee, Garlic, Onions, soda, fruit juice, most alcohol and chocolate. yeah, I dont get much joy from life these days.