IBS Diet

Hello everyone,

After you are diagnosed with IBS you fumble around not knowing what you can and cannot eat, especially after you have an attack and are left feeling drained and dehydrated.

The safest way to start gaining control of your body again is to go on a bland diet (At least for a couple of days after the attack). This ensures that you have food in your system that will not aggravate your bowels and it will also give them a break.

"Safe" foods include:
Banana's
White rice
White bread
Plain pasta (Boiled in water and without any sauces)
Mashed potatoes (Plain: Without milk or butter)

Drinks:
Water

These are the items i personally eat/drink after an attack. There are other things you could try of course and it depends on your body's reactions.

When you're feeling better again and are back to "normal" you go back to your regular IBS diet.

Hope this helped,

Love xx,
Y.

Part 2 of the story

<<continuation of previous post>>

On this particular day I had messed up my sleep so bad and hadn't slept all night. I was in the living room trying to fall asleep on the couch around midday. I got into a fight with someone who will remain unmentioned and after that incident my symptoms were clear as day. They weren't like the muted ones I had before. The pain had gotten worse, the episodes more frequent and more severe.

I decided to go to a specialized hospital this time and they ran a bunch of tests on me (Blood, ultrasound, etc). The doctor suspected that I had Helicobacter pylori.

Definition: " (/ˌhɛlɪkɵˈbæktər paɪˈlɔəraɪ/; H. pylori), previously named Campylobacter pylori, is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium found in the stomach" (Wikipedia)

Basically its a kind of worm found in your stomach that has similar symptoms to IBS and Crohn's. 

Definition: "Crohn's disease, also known as Crohn syndrome and regional enteritis, is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms. It primarily causes abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be bloody if inflammation is severe), vomiting, or weight loss,^[1][2][3] but may also cause complications outside the gastrointestinal tract" (Wikipedia)

The tests came back negative and I went back home glad that I didn't have this worm but a little frustrated over not finding out what I had. The doctor said that there was nothing wrong with me and I really wanted to believe him so I tried to convince myself that really I was fine and this was nothing.


Predictably I got sick again and was in pain that I could not stop (Again) and was so frustrated at the doctors that I decided to take matters into my own hands and started googling it. I became paranoid and started washing my hands and tried to avoid eating out as much as I could to avoid food poisoning. At the time the only search result that came up that made sense was food poisoning.

I then started researching about things other than food poisoning that had similar symptoms. IBS and Crohns came up and I was scared. I did not want to have a functional disease that altered my life and was incurable. I did not want another diagnosis of another chronic disease that I could not control or avoid. Another disease and more medication and more doctor visits.

 I was terrified. I even started suspecting Cancer...

On my 19th birthday I got sick one more time and went to the same hospital again.

This time my doctor uttered the words "Irritable Bowel Syndrome" and I was both relieved and horrified. Relieved that I finally knew what was wrong with me and horrified because I'd have to live with this for the rest of my life...