Would be interesting to know what is the blood type most IBS'ers have? I'm a 0+, and so is my father, grand father and my mother. All of us having problems with milk products, wheat, rye etc. My mother and grandfather having constipation while me and father rather often diarrhea.
My condition went really bad last winter. It was a period of high stress at work. At the same time I was eating a lot of sweets, ice cream and sweet bakings. And having mostly-vegetarian diet. The result of all that was that 15 mins after a meal I had to run to toilet and found lot of un-smelted food in excrement.
First my doc supposed it to be celiac, took the tests and I started following the diet with no wheat. This of course made me to stop eating cookies, cakes and cinnamon rolls that I soooo much loved. And made me feel so much better. The lab results vere negative, though. That was a big relief, and I run to supermarket to grab my favourite cinnamon rolls. The result was edema, a lot of gas and horrible smelling farts and excrement. I understood to go on with celiac diet.
When the spring brouhgt the warm weather, I started eating a lot of icecream, almost daily without any direct symptoms. Later on in the summer I got really bad skin rash on my hand, that made itching watery spots on couple of places on my left hand. Went to show them to dermatologist who wrote some standard cortisons. Of course those fixed the skin in couple of days, but the skin got worse immediately day after.
Then I heard about candida, and my symptoms matched really well and decided to switch to candida diet, that eliminates wheat, sugars, starches etc from the meal. The stomach got better and the skin as well, but my enery level dropped significantly. Almost couldn't move and felt cold all the time - it was autumnn by that time. The guide I followed suggested very little if any meat, and I skipped the meat part, due to my vegetarian diet. The stomach was OK most of the time, but I had to think about what to eat all the time, since even rice or buckwheat seemed to produce gas and make my skin rash watery again.
Then I read the book of D'Adamo and decided to give a try for the diet suggested for 0's. I shopped some cow meat, a lot of broccoli and an already in couple of days felt better than for years. I got my energy level up again! And the stomach settled down, no gas, no diarrhea, no skin rash.
Now I'm curious if anyone have experienced something equal?
And of course what is your blood type and your current diet you're following?
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