Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: HELP FOR IBS w/ diarrhea VERY LOW POTASSIUM

For immediate relief, you can check with your surgeon and see if you can take Imodium and an anti-spasmodic (I take Donnatol but there are a bunch of them). They may provide some relief, although my own experience was that until I began getting my IBS under control with diet changes, they were not particularly effective. Luckily, this Website is about changing your diet to help with IBS.

Specifically, this Board is about the Eating For IBS Diet. You can look through the Website outside the Boards - click on "Home" in the column to the left to get started - to see what the Diet is about. Heather, the woman who developed the EFI Diet, also has a couple of books: "The First Year-IBS" which provides a step-by-step guide to her approach and "Eating For IBS" which is part brief summary of her approach and mostly cookbook. You can read excerpts from both of them by clicking on "IBS Books" in the column to the left. I think "The First Year-IBS" is an excellent place to find out about this approach - your library may have a copy.

The bases of the EFI Diet are that some foods are IBS triggers and should be avoided; that Soluble Fiber foods are very soothing to the gut and should form the basis of any meal or snack; and that foods that are neither triggers nor Soluble Fiber should be eaten carefully to avoid annoying your tummy.

There have been a few posts from other people who have had gastric bypass surgery and I understand there are medical reasons why some types of Soluble Fiber foods may be problematic for gastric bypass patients. I suggest you look over the EFI Diet guidelines, then discuss them with your surgeon.

I hope you will find a way to incorporate Heather's approach into your specific medical needs. I found it to be miraculous is relieving my IBS-D and hope you find the same.

I hope this helps. Welcome to the Boards.

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