#postinfectousibs — Public Fediverse posts

It was my intention to post regularly what I'm eating while staying low #FODMAP but I only really eat three things: omelette with vegetables and Colby Jack (paprika and tumeric), oatmeal with almond butter and cranberries (cinnamon and nutmeg), and CF Brownie Crunch cereal with oatmilk. Plus either green tea or tumeric ginger tea depending on how I'm feeling. Also a handful of vitamins and small salads now that I'm out of acute crisis.

My gastroenterologist, who is a dismissive and disinterested ahole generally, says that he recommends --against-- low FODMAP for #IBS , #IBD , #postinfectousIBS , ect. because it's "too restrictive," but what was really restrictive was never leaving my house, barely parenting my children, and being absent to my friends and community because I was in constant excruciating and unpredictable pain.

If I lived in a major metro area, this is the phase where I would see a nutritionist to reintroduce things so that my diet could become less restrictive but still provide management benefits, but I don't.

Instead I get stuck here, letting my body heal in strict mode, because I enjoy being able to just function for a while and I'll do anything it takes to maintain that.

This isn't the whole story ( #endometriosis , hospital-acquired #CDiff , #medicalmalpractice , #medicalgaslighting ) but I feel like I need to share because there are other people like me who have to figure this out on their own.