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You can actually find a low FODMAP diet for vegetarians/vegans online. It lists foods that are supposed to be "safe" for people with IBS. It is quite restrictive at first, but then you gradually add back foods to see if you react to them in a negative way. You even have to eliminate onions and garlic as well as onion powder and garlic powder. Some people are very sensitive to these ingredients. A work around is to use oil infused with either onion or garlic. You can also eat canned lentils during the elimination part of the diet. It's interesting to find out what foods you react to. It's so sad that many gastroenterologists don't address treatment for IBS. I had one doctor tell me to "go to the bathroom before you go out for a run". Really? 12 years of medical school and that's your advice??? Wow... but seriously, try the low FODMAP approach. It seems to be working for me right now.. Good luck everyone! 🙂
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I have tried the low FODMAP protocol a number of times during flare ups and am two weeks into it now but still having some bad days. Since there are periods during which I am able to eat almost everything I’m thinking my issues are more threshold relevant - so if I over load I have trouble rather than if I eat just a small portion of a high FODMAP food. I have the lists of “do and do not eat”foods and the app from Monash university. My PCP attended Monash so he’s familiar with it. I’m seeing a new GI today - because I’m new to the area - so will see what he says. I am just trying to figure out what my possible “permanent” eliminations will have to be within the context of a vegetarian household. I think I will be stuck cooking low FODMAP versions for me since I don’t feel it’s right to impose it on my family - we are of Italian heritage so subbing garlic oil for garlic is tough and my daughter-in-law is a pretty health conscious person so subbing canned lentils for dry in her recipes is probably not something she’d be too thrilled about. I guess I have to understand that if I was living alone I’d be cooking for myself anyway!