over night oats

[Boxroad]

does anyone else get diarrhoea if they eat overnight oats? I used soya milk a little apple pear and orange but two days later the diarrhoea started again.

[Luisa22]

Some people can eat oats. I can't. I can't even eat one oatcake. Oats just "make me go". No idea why.

Likewise fruit with me. I know I definitely couldn't eat apple, pear and orange any more. For about 40 years I had at least 2 portions fruit with breakfast. Not able to eat even 15 blueberries or half a banana this year. I am not into any kind of milk, so can't comment on soya milk.

[Boxroad in reply to Luisa22]

Things change as we get older but I wish our gut would gives us warning when it’s going to chang

[Luisa22 in reply to Boxroad]

Yes so do I. My IBS history involves a lot of irony. I'd had one or two bouts short lived before 2020, but in early March 2020 it really hit. But just before that (remember the food shortage? Store shelves emptying?) well I had stocked up on about £300 worth of food, in the freezer and dried stuff, lentils, brown rice, nuts and canned veg & fruit. I felt quite smug to myself about being prepared!

IBS came, and I had to go out in lockdown to the supermarket desperately seeking white pasta, white rice, white bread, different veggies, etc.

Have you heard of the low Fodmap diet? Maybe you could give it a try. But you will have to work out what suits you and what doesn't by trial and error. If you have IBS D, then a more bland diet might help, especially during flare ups. I can eat about 15 vegetables usually when not doing so badly, and can usually manage about 3 or sometimes 4 portions of veg a day, but have to stick to the blandest things during a flare, to calm my gut for a few days. Things like hard boiled eggs, steamed fish, white toast, white rice, pasta etc. and sadly just one veggie portion, like a few green beans, spinach or a bit of lettuce per day

But for you it might be different. You might be okay with some foods but not with others. Monitor your symptoms a day or two after eating certain things, and keep a food diary. It's quite time consuming and boring to do that but you might find foods that make you worse, and those you can easily tolerate.

[Boxroad in reply to Luisa22]

Thank you for replyI keep a food diary, each morning I take my sugars as I am diabetic, take blood pressure pulse rate and SP02 levels due to angina, I have had IBS for over 30 years but since the pandemic it has been playing tricks on me and catching me unawares with different symptoms, I try to keep a low fodmap diet I don’t have dairy and I can’t tolerate tape water, I keep a check on the Bristol chart but just lately that has been more D than anything else, up until recently I could eat oats now and then but it seems they see now off the list as well, it’s very hard juggling the IBS with the diabetes as they both have a very strict diet. I guess as we get older we just have to accept our gut is going to get worse.

[SueCats]

Like Luisa22, apples and pears trigger my IBS. Try the oats without them for a while to see if it still happens.

[Boxroad in reply to SueCats]

I think I will just give the oats a wide berth from now on, when my IBS D flares up it pretty much makes me house bound for about three weeks before I can start to venture out again.

[casares8]

I tried it once and got diarrhoea , so been scared to try it again

[Boxroad]

I used to be ok with it but now looks like I am not any more

[Purplewoman]

Yes even with my gf oats and lacto free milk if I use it

[Boxroad in reply to Purplewoman]

It’s horrible isn’t it

[ForViolet]

Oats are fine for me. The main thing I need to remember is to watch the quantity. Any time I eat too much at once I have a chance of an attack.

I can’t eat apples cuz the solanine in them makes my arthritis flare up. Cooked pears are okay for my tummy but not raw ones…

[Boxroad in reply to ForViolet]

It amazes me how everyone with this complaint suffer with different foods

[ForViolet in reply to Boxroad]

Yes. And I think more people are finding that while a raw food causes trouble, a cooked one is okay.

[Luisa22 in reply to ForViolet]

Yes, I have been OK with stewed apples mashed up

[Viklou]

Not really sure what overnight oats are to be honest but all three fruits you're adding give me diarrhoea

[JT1992]

I have a problem with oats.. one day i had oats for breakfast with almond milk, and then a coffee later with oat milk. I was really bad with D. I went to a dietician who did a York intolerance test, and it came back as almonds being bad so she is convinced it was the almond milk causing the problem rather than the oats, but i would have to disagree. Oats are really high in fibre and some people are just not good on fibre.