My sensitive stomach

[ny biker]

Wow. How frustrating, in more than one way. At least you are feeling better now. I hope your diet doesn't end up too restricted. I will say, having recently had to give up Diet Coke cold turkey due to a hiatal hernia, that it's easier to stop wanting formerly-favorite foods and beverages when those foods and beverages clearly make you feel sick.

[Crankin]

I agree, NY, but if I had to eat a low fiber diet forever, it would mean giving up *everything* I eat. Like all of the spelt bread, whole wheat pasta, quinoa, brown rice, beans, most fruit and just about every vegetable known to mankind. Salads and wine. Nooooo! She said I could start adding the stuff back in so I will probably stay away from the cruciferous veggies for awhile, as I know they bother me. She gave me a sheet with foods that are ok or not ok for the diet and sample meals. It looked like a menu from the 50s.

[Catrin]

Glad that you found there IS a treatment for it, and I hear you about the frustrations from having to change your diet for a bit. May it only be temporary and you can add some of your favorites back in once you figure out those veggies that your body accepts.

I remember when I realized I needed to give up all grains, psuedo-grains, and beans - but it made me feel SO much better so quickly that it wasn't as difficult as I thought it might be. Lo these 5 years later I can finally sneak in the occasional slice of sprouted bread (and it MUST be sprouted - my body will tell me if the label lies), or very small serving of white rice (brown is still verboten). I CAN eat most veggies however, and that's a different ballgame entirely. NOW I'm amazed when people tell me how restrictive my diet is - it's far from that.

[Pax]

Crankin, that just stinks. We eat similar to the way you do, when I saw and old coworkers approved food list for her diverticulitis all I could think was "I'd starve". Hope you heal up quick.

[Crankin]

Well, I had an orange with breakfast this morning and so far, so good. I wonder what they tell a 100% vegetarian with this issue? The diet didn't even mention tofu or soy products, that's how old fashioned it seemed. I don't eat a lot of bread at all, but I do have all whole wheat cous cous, pasta, etc. Yesterday I had a piece of matzah for a snack, as I was desperate. Thankfully, DH likes to eat it year round, so we have it in the house.
I am staying away from the crunchy veggies and fruits until I finish the meds, but adding in other stuff slowly.

[Pax]

My coworker was a morbidly obese smoker who took the guidelines as permission to eat nothing but absolute garbage. She is just about the sickest person I know who is still upright.

[ny biker]

Um, I looked up diverticulitis on the Mayo Clinic website. They say that the immediate treatment is a liquid diet with antibiotics, so the infection can heal. But then they have this exact opposite of what you are describing.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...s/con-20033495

Time for a second opinion?