I got diagnosed with IBS a few months ago & im really struggling with controling my diet & also relieving the pain. Has anyone got any tip?

[katrinabrady]

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Go back to your GP and ask for both a referral to a dietitian and some pain medication.

In the meantime, you might like to have a go at the low FODMAPs diet which you can find out about on the website for Monash University where it was created and is still being researched (just put FODMAP into the search box on its homepage). If you have an iPhone there’s an app you can download from there and also a booklet for purchase.

An American dietitian called Patsy Catsos has written a very good book about FODMAPs called 'IBS - Free At Last' (on Amazon) which contains all the info you need to get going.

The diet works very well for a lot of people on this site - including me. It's well worth a go and results can be quite quick.

You may also find it useful to read through as many of the questions, posts and responses on this site as you can - even if they don't seem to refer precisely to what you want to know - you'll learn a lot that way.

Pagan

[carola_100]

Look into SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth). I am having IBS for 45 years