I’ve always been at a loss of best way to handle IBS. Dr’s all tell you the same stuff. Probiotics, drink more water, move around more, small meals spread out. Nothing ever worked for me. I just deal with it.

I try to avoid trigger foods like onions, peppers, too much milk chocolate, dairy, too much sugar, ...

Hello Donna!!!! I’ve had problematic bowel(mainly chronic D/gut issues since 1978!!!! My general doc thought was stress related as I was newly married with relationship issues! As my gut issues worsened I was referred to a gastro and diagnosed with celiac disease(1990) and parasite infection-treated with antibiotics and had been prescribed too many antibiotics from childhood on with various infections! Celiac diet failed and more colonoscopies/ endoscopies…diagnosed with IBS. Had terrible digestion/reflux.. constant D… more and more foods I was intolerant to! Tried probiotics but had issues with those due to dairy or done filler I was intolerant to! Supplements were hard to find that were clean. Tried SCD diet, FODMAPS, eliminating nightshades…having some luck with Dr. Mercolas probiotic and digestive enzymes. I took a food intolerant test that highlighted having high intolerance to rice/tapioca foods and beef and chicken and more. Invested in grass fed bison that my body liked..otherwise all meats were not digestible/cause D and also having bowel leakage that was embarrassing. I blamed the animals diet of grains to cause me diarrhea/bowel leakage. Bought into Dr. Axe’s leaky gut program that failed but here is where my good fortune started! The Facebook group to this program offered members to ask questions, get support! First… By making bone broths and needing filtered water, I bought a 5 gal. jug of reverse osmosis water and decided to use exclusively! I jokingly stated it was the water making me sick as was only thing I didn’t yet remove from my diet!!! I was prescribed tons of drugs for D and bowel leakage over the years that didn’t help! Within two weeks of drinking/cooking with RO water my bowel leakage improved. I researched city water and what’s in it to cause gut issues….. fluoride! I did work with a specialist from out East and guided me on foods/drinks/products to avoid with fluoride. I also purchased a Berkey filtration system with fluoride filters in 2016…along with the diet eliminating fluoride … it all ended the bowel leakage..but not the chronic D! I also had hemorrhoids that my gastro had no resolution for (had gone to five different gastro’s over the years with last one being top celiac specialist and ran tons of tests to feel I never had celiac disease but nothing else showed up on tests and only offered antidepressants!!!!!!!!!!). Heard Dr. Oz mention if you can’t improve gut issues you herd to eliminate 4 foods…one being corn! My whole diet was reliant on corn .. my hemorrhoids healed within two weeks once eliminating corn!! I volunteered for a microbiome test thru UBiome to reveal I had no beneficial strains like lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium due to numerous colonoscopies over the years …sometimes two a year!!!! That’s not good for digestion! I also had histamine issues and fermented foods highly recommended in the leaky gut program caused me issues and just found not continue with Dr. Axes program but still had the Facebook group to ask questions… here is where I was recommended to research the Medical Medium! I started reading his books in fall of 2018 (library has them and did buy some for the info/recipes). I started his protocols in 2019 that includes daily juicing celery! My digestion/reflux healed within the year, healed dry eye syndrome, eczema and balanced low blood pressure! Most my numerous food intolerances are gone!!! I’m still working on the chronic D but is improving so that I am finally enjoying life without fear of accidents!!! It’s hard work to learn about diet changes….avoiding unproductive foods and relying on productive foods. Understanding all the misinformation about foods that truly makes sense!! Learning one needs to detox “safely”! Have recommendations for clean, quality supplements..all I can take with no issues! I’ve been ill since day one!!! Been in doctors offices /hospitals/tons of testings/drugs my whole life! The MM info finally gave me answers!

Staying away from dairy, gluten and legumes. It helps

I've had almost complete remission with the low-fodmap diet and switching to A2 dairy.

I have had it close to 40 years. Brown rice eating it if diarhea is my flair. Increase Vitamin C if constipation is the trouble. Those are my two go tos. But thats just me.

Also, all drinking and cooking water is Kangan machine water.

Had it the past 20 years, and the three biggest things for me, in order, are taking psyllium twice a day, avoiding alcohol, and using cannabis. Just what works for me.

I had Ibs D until my my 30s and then it changed to IBS C. That's when I got diagnosed with IBS. I'm 64 now and I guess I've just learned to live with it. I have so many other issues that I don't dwell on it.