My husband’s doctor wants him to try this FODMAP thing. (Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides and Polyols.) He doesn’t think he has IBS, exactly, but thinks he might feel better on this.
I understand that the idea is to get rid of things that are poorly absorbed in the small intestine and that ferment. But the lists the guy gave me… yay, he can eat durian? These are weird lists. It isn’t like going dairy free or gluten free or anything like that where it’s intuitive and natural to understand what to eat and what not to eat. Looks like the library has one book on this, which I’ve put a hold on.
So has anybody here tried this? Any of this stuff more or less important? (Beans? Really? What the fuck are we supposed to eat if we can’t eat beans? We already eat low gluten and dairy free! And please don’t say onions - I don’t know how to cook without chopping up an onion first!) Did it help you? Was it so restrictive that you couldn’t stick with it?
I’ve just never heard of this thing at all and I’m trying to get any information you have, I suppose.
I have seen the lists, but I haven’t tried it.
But I can tell you about going without beans/dried legumes. It’s fantastic! I feel much, much better since I stopped eating them. Not only intestinally, but skin problems are clearing up, too.
Some people can eat some beans, but not others. It’s very idiosyncratic. One person I know, the only bean she can eat without pain is the lovely chickpea, but another person, the chickpea is the only one she can’t eat.
If you need to taper off gradually, quit all soy products first, as they are the ones most likely to cause problems. But you’re more likely to get higher quality feedback if you quit everything for a period, and reintroduce foods gradually and observe results.
Hmmm. Beans, dairy, sugar alcohols, and a hard-to-remember list of fruits and vegetables. Inulin IIRC is the “fiber” that lots of health food products contain.
It sounds like a pretty reasonable list of things to avoid.
Huh. I’ve seen soy on fodmops foods to avoid lists. But really, you and your husband are your own experiments. The only way to know is to see what works and what doesn’t for you.