Constant bloating and nausea. Help??

Try cutting out fruits, vegetables, dairy and greasy, fatty foods from your diet. Fruits and vegetables are difficult to digest, and you can assume why greasy, fatty foods will upset your stomach. If your symptoms improve after you cut these foods out, you should try incorporating each food slowly into your diet and see how you react to each food. Also, you should try easing up on the, fiber if you consume large amounts of fiber per day.

 I have the bloating problem sickness and am trying to cut out gluten but still the bloating  then it goes down in the morning wierd, when they dont know what it is the drs will always say its IBS seems to be a cop out for them instead of investigating what it might be, they dont seem to care i have found. i am not sure what it is i would go back to the drs and see what they say, although in my case it has turned out to be a waste of time asking the drs for anything cos they are not that bothered i have found just say IBS and leave it up to you thats the attitude i have been on the receiving end of

Im no Dr Tammy, but carry on with your gluton free diet, no wheat at all, avoid cows milk, try soya, avoid coffee tea, redbush peppermint and camomile are good alternatives, it can flare up more around period week, rest when fatigued, but a 30minute walk honestly helps when you feeling better.  Good Luck

Debs

Thanks guys.

I don't drink fizzy drinks, or alcohol or coffee and tea. The problem I do have is that I eat a lot of chocolate and don't have regular meals due to my job as a waitress and the split shifts I'm always doing. My job doesn't help at all! I'm desperate to see a dietician as I feel I really need help with what to eat. I'm such a fussy eater and all these diets are getting me down.

Thanks for the advice!

Hi Tammy

I presume from your commentrs that you have seen specialists .

I see a similarity with you.

I have RLS and found that a gluten free diet helped a bit but not completely

After a bit of mucking around I found that Monash University in Australia had developed a diet (called FODMAP) specifically for ibs.     THis diet worked for me and I now have very little RLS.    The diet has a lot in common with gluten free but there are other things that sound quite safe that are ruled out.    The full story is available AT THE Monash web site.   Also Stanford uni in the USA.

FODMAP apparently works for 50% to 70% of ibs people so it might help and the fact that gluten free made a difference perhaps indicates it might help you.

I have created a discussion on the rls forum called RLS and diet which has details about the diet but your doc or specialist should have mentioned it to you and should help you find a dietician.

If you want to try it let me know if you need any more details or if there isd anything I can do

Cheers

Graham

Hi Tammy

of course its not all in your head.   There is something wrong and you need it diagnosed as soon as possible.

You suggest that they wont recomend you to a specialist but I dont understand why you cant just insist.   Is the UK system very restrictive about which doctor you can visit?     If not then see another GP and demand that they refer you to someone more experienced than they are.

My doctor didnt give me much chance that the FODMAP diet would help RLS but he encouraged me to try.   He said that I really needed a dietician to help me ensure that I was getting a healthy diet and manage me when I started to reintroduce foods.   You see the idea is that you go on a very restrictive diet fo about 8 weeks and then start to reintroduce food groups one at the time so you know what foods you can tolerate.   In fact I think it took about 12 weeks before I felt the full benefit.    Reintroducing foods has been unsuccessful so far but this is apparently unusual.

From my experience there is a lot of food you can eat like bananas, oranges or kiwi fruit and of course steak potatoes carrots etc.   But you must avoid the foods not on the list absolutely.   THey are nothing you might expect and include apples, pears, brochilli onions garlic.   As you see "healthy" foods are on the banned list and the apparent "goodness" of the food has nothing to do with it.   But if you are trying to be good dont allow even a small amount of lactose or it can mess you around and you will never know what you can or can\t eat

I have written a post in the group "restless legs and diet" in the group called restless legs syndrome where I have mentioned sources of information.   I suggest you read that and let me know if you need more information.

I can give you detaiols in a private message if I can work out how to send it.

Please let me know

Good Luck

Graham

Hi tammy1993, I think you should be tested for coeliac disease.  Your symptoms are similar to mine but what makes me think you have coeliac disease is the wheat and gluten reaction.  I was told wrongly through a dietician to follow the FODMAP diet which wasn't the cause of my i.b.s related symptoms which turned out to be stress related not food related!  You have found through your own investigations that gluten doesn't like your body and reacts whenever you put it in.  If you had no problems with gluten after 6 weeks your body wouldn't react.  Try it again but experiment with other foods, then see how you get on.  Only trial and error will tell you if it is food.  If you get really stuck try to then speak to a dietician.  Good luck there's loads of foods now that are gluten free so don't worry you won't starve.