I've now been dairy and gluten-free for 10 days, and I remain spectacularly symptom-free. No pain, no diarrhea, no constipation, no nothing. I go to the bathroom once in the morning like a normal person, and then I go about my life for the rest of the day (mostly like a normal person), and then I wake up the next day and do it all again.
So am I ecstatic, blissful, jumping for unbridled joy? No, I'm very worried.
Surely it can't be this easy? Surely, as an IBS sufferer, I can't take a blood test, get the results, follow the advice and get fixed? That is SO not how it works.
No, we as IBS sufferers have time-honored traditions about how these things should be done. The general procedure is to go to a doctor, get laughed at, go to another doctor, get some pills, take the pills, get ill, go to new doctor, get some different pills, pills don't work, new doctor, doctor never heard of IBS, new doctor, new pills, pills don't work, new doctor, doctor says that IBS doesn't exist and that all I need is a holiday by the beach and a psychiatrist, give up, cry, go and live in hut as hermit for rest of natural life.
But new therapist, get tested, get results, get better? That's just bizarre. And that's why I'm worried. What do I do if I get ill now? I'm just trying to stop my hopes from getting too high.
Hi Sophie
I'm so pleased for you and I do hope it continues! If this really works, how many have of us have suffered unnecessarily for so many years?
I've only been dairy and yeast free for 3 days now, so difficult to assess how successful the effect. All I can say is that I have want to pee like crazy (sorry, no other way to say it). Is that my bodies way of detoxifying? My skin seems to have a healthier glow and I've had no cramps, pains, runs.
However, I'm finding cutting out dairy AND yeast a nightmare. The dairy I can do, but yeast is in SO many things. I have ordered to free-from cook books from Amazon, to see what I can prepare myself. Also, I'm seeing a nutritionist on Thursday.
One thing I have discovered - longlife soya milk gives me indigestion, fresh does not - weird?
Sophie - can you have soya milk etc, given your intolerance to soya beans?
Take care and thank you for running this site. It's so great to have people to share this with!!
Ellie x
Hi Sophie,
This is what happened to me too - just relax and enjoy it while you can. I have been saying for months that dairy is the root of all evil so I'm glad that you're finding this is working for you.
Keep it up.
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