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Sorry, this is not helpful. I guarantee you that anyone who suffers gastrointestinal disorders has considered their diet. The pain sometimes feel like a bottomless pit of suffering.

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I had GI issues and talked to doctors about it. Not a single one of them said anything about diet. Looking back at it is rather frustrating.

When I first learned about diet the advice was terrible. It didn’t work.

Now that I have a good conceptual model for my GI track and food it all makes more sense.

For me (well controlled IBS), diet only seems to be a minor factor. It can be very difficult to really figure out if any particular food is causing a problem, or if it's some other factor. You need to test the food multiple times under different circumstances. For myself, I did think that certain foods caused problems. But I've since realised that I can eat pretty much all of those foods without problem. There are certain things that I'm careful about (alcohol, and wine in particular, sugary drinks, and coffee), but even those I can tolerate in moderation. The only thing that reliably causes symptoms for me is stress (100% of the time).

I fully understand where you are coming from, but do not discount the power of diet. I found, that in order to see a real difference, I had to move ~very~ far away from my old habits. It can be a scary thing to do.

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