Recently started the low fodmap diet.
Backstory reasons: diarrhea almost every day for at least a year, which is when I had an appendectomy (which apparently might have started this). I've also been under a lot of stress and my nervous system is pretty wrecked, e.g. I can't go running unless getting tons of anxiety surging through my body. No endorphins for this lady!
Anyway, after an allergy test and a stool sample (both looking completely fine) I met up with a nutritionist, told her about my surgery, my cptsd'd nervous system, my constant bowel issues and she looked at me point blank and said: "Yeah, so you have IBS". I don't get cramps and rarely urgency or bloating, so this was a shock for me. She put me on the low fodmap for the next four weeks. I've been writing down everything I eat, my Google search at this point is all "is X fodmap friendly", my algorithm is already very IBS forward, haha.
Nothing has changed with the bowel movements, it's very discouraging to eat this restrictively and then get the worst diarrhea, like WHAT DID I DO NOW?
Just looking for advice or success stories or something. Did you start the fodmap and realise some low fodmap foods messed you up? Did it take time for your digestive system to decide it was over the diarrhea era? Was it just caffein all along? Is there garlic at the end of the tunnel?