Let me get this straight: you never had digestive issues more than once a year or so at all, until a few weeks ago and now you possibly have IBS? I am not used to the idea of IBS coming on suddenly and really being IBS and not something else. I have had it pretty much my whole life. Anyway you have had it just a few weeks and wonder how you used to eat foods that are triggers without having symptoms then, is that right?
First you, and many others, don't have a clear idea of how IBS and the IBS diet work. The triggers are foods that most likely, odds are good, chances are, will cause digestive problems. They are known to cause gut reactions and for various reasons can trigger the gut to behave badly. Therefore, the best chance an IBS sufferer has is in treating the irritable gut with kid gloves and giving it as little reason as possible to react. That is why the triggers are to be avoided. People always talk about being able to eat this one or that one, but what that does is set the gut up for irritability and our only chance, being IBS is incurable, is to prevent attacks/symptoms as best we can.
There are definitely levels of severity. If stress or some other condition brought on IBS for you, your digestive life is now changed and what you could eat in the past is possibly not tolerable anymore. When you really get going on the IBS diet you find it isn't as restrictive as you or many people think. Your IBS is so new that you cannot be sure how touchy your gut will be and so your best chance for health is to get into it and follow the diet without pessimism and complaining. If you stabilize you can then add back foods that you may be ok with. Don't start with a bad attitude because it makes it way harder on you. Instead think about how you could lick it quickly and be normal again (unlike us chronic suffers).
Example:
My boss's husband was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year. He now is watching his diet to stay healthy as you would expect. He has to avoid the foods that probably 2 years ago were fine for him. They didn't cause a diabetic attack back then but now they would. See what I mean?
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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