Recent content by sarah sam

Hi @officerripley, I hear you , for some of us IBS feels wired in from birth, and no single diet or pill flips it “off.” What has helped me is thinking in terms of dialing down the volume on multiple triggers rather than hunting for a miracle cure: • Genetics we can’t change, but we can...

I’ve lived with IBS for a little under a year, so I totally relate to the “good-weeks / bad-weeks” roller-coaster many of you describe. Three things have helped me stay (mostly) functional: 1. Treat it as a three-phase journey, not a life sentence. • The strict elimination phase gave me...

Hi everyone, I’ve been eating low-FODMAP for almost a year now after years of on-and-off IBS flares. The first thing I learned is that the plan really does have three phases: eliminate, re-introduce, then personalize. During elimination my symptom relief felt almost “magical”, but...