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Fodmap Eating Plan

Posted by Teresa, Volunteer Mentor @hopeful33250, Jun 13, 2020

I will be starting on the fodmap eating plan next week and I'm looking for some suggestions about following this plan for the first four weeks. Did you have the guidance of a dietician? Did you find any books, recipes, YouTube videos that helped you? I'm also wondering how you went about the addition of foods after the four-week restricted period?

Any success stories (I'd really like to hear them). Anything that was particularly helpful or difficult for you?

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cpd54 | @cpd54 | Aug 20, 2023
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@lsdd13

What is a food sensitivity test? The breath test?

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No, it’s a blood test that test for food sensitivities. Some consider it “quackery” , but when I cut the foods out that I was sensitive to, my GERD vastly improved and my Sjogerns pain subsided significantly.

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lsdd13 | @lsdd13 | Aug 20, 2023
In reply to @cpd54 "No, it’s a blood test that test for food sensitivities. Some consider it “quackery” , but..." + (show)
@cpd54

No, it’s a blood test that test for food sensitivities. Some consider it “quackery” , but when I cut the foods out that I was sensitive to, my GERD vastly improved and my Sjogerns pain subsided significantly.

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Thank you

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candidough47 | @candidough47 | Aug 21, 2023

What is a Finctional medical doctor?????

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ajh5285 | @ajh5285 | Aug 21, 2023
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I went through the process with the help of two sessions with the Mayo dietician. It is a meticulous process with big payoffs. Some have tried to do it on their own but I don’t recommend that. For me it’s a lifelong diet, with very few changes from the DASH/ Mediterranean diet we are on. There are two foods I have omitted for most of the time, with eating small portions if invited out for a meal. There are other foods that I use in small portions when cooking at home. Really the changes for me were not dramatic but a friend went through the same process at Mayo and she absolutely cannot eat any garlic. This is hard for her at restaurants. I have tried many things in my lifetime to solve my gastro problems. Nothing helped until FODMAP came along. My suggestion is to be patient, find a dietician trained in this, and enlist family and friends to be helpful during your time of discernment of what you can eat.

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Ah, garlic. This is also my béte noire. Everyone else I encounter seems to think it's the best food in the world, but sometimes even the smell of a coating of garlic on deli meat makes me gag.
I also believe that my problematic response to the Covid booster may have been precipitated by my once again deciding to experiment with just a little garlic. At one point in my life, I could tolerate roasted (black?) garlic and very small amounts if I couldn't smell it.
Also of note is the fact that my dad couldn't stand garlic, and my brother and I once got off an airplane ride overseas, both with diarrhea after meals prepared with recipes from the kitchen of Maneet Chohan (sp?) which featured garlic. Makes me think we have a genetic intolerance, different from FODMAP, since I tolerate without apparent problems, members of the onion family .

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baguette | @baguette | Aug 22, 2023
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@candidough47

What is a Finctional medical doctor?????

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https://www.ifm.org/functional-medicine/ Usually not covered by insurance or Medicare, so out of pocket. More of an holistic approach, and the doctor usually spends much more time with the patient than the doctors we usually see. Supposedly seeks root cause of a problem, instead of addressing symptoms.

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researchmaven | @researchmaven | Aug 22, 2023

Get the Monash University Fodmap App. It tells you what you can eat and what should be avoided. If you are lucky, that is all the change you need to make!

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lsdd13 | @lsdd13 | Aug 22, 2023

If you don’t have a dietician, I suggest you download the Monash u APP . There’s tons of info online as well as cookbooks. You should ask your Gastroenterologist if they have a dietician or any educational materials for you.

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candidough47 | @candidough47 | Aug 22, 2023
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@baguette

https://www.ifm.org/functional-medicine/ Usually not covered by insurance or Medicare, so out of pocket. More of an holistic approach, and the doctor usually spends much more time with the patient than the doctors we usually see. Supposedly seeks root cause of a problem, instead of addressing symptoms.

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That’s what I thought thanks

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mpeters | @mpeters | Aug 23, 2023

I started m journey with a dietician. I learned how to gradually manipulate my diet to determine my FODMAP. I was cautioned that you may still be able to eat your FODMAPs, just in lower amounts. Some people cannot eat their fodmaps at all. I recommend undertaking this journey with help from a registered dietician.

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