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IBS
How IBS Changed My Life
20 years to get properly diagnosed and change my diet for relief
When I was 12, I started puking every morning before school.
Eventually it was decided I had anxiety. Which I did because I went to school with some serious bullies. And my home life was a mess.
But that really wasn’t the issue.
When I was like 18, I started having serious gas issues.
I would feel pressure in my gut and have to swallow air to relieve it. Everyone thought I was causing the issue by swallowing air. And doctors just told me that gas was normal.
Hint: it wasn’t.
Finally, about a decade ago now, my awesome family doctor confirmed I probably had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
I was sent to a dietician to learn the FODMAP diet.
FODMAPS are sugar chains that are poorly digested. You know “the beans beans the musical fruit the more you eat the more you toot?”
The reason beans give you gas is the oligosaccharides, which your gut can’t process them and they ferment really fast and you get gas issues.
In people with IBS, it’s like many sugars that cause these issues. Garlic is surprisingly high in sugar that my…
