I have similar symptoms and after years narrowed it down to the fodmaps food group (google ‘fodmaps’).
What helped me in the end was:
•cutting out garlic entirely
•cutting out onions mostly.
• cutting out diet drinks as the sweeteners are in the same family and are EVIL to your digestion if you’re fodmaps sensitive.
• checking lists of high fodmaps foods when eating something new, just in case
• taking ‘Beano’ (US) or ‘Bean assist’ (in the UK) before meals containing onion or garlic if I can’t avoid them. These contain a digestible enzyme that help you cope better.
• if all else fails and you get bloating etc, take activated charcoal which you can get from chemists. This is amazing stuff which I once read is in every kitchen cupboard for digestive distress in some Eastern European countries, yet is barely known here. It absorbs all the gas generated and so greatly relieves symptoms.
Cheap to buy, I buy little black pills from amazon which I eat at the first sign.
The above steps have been a life changer for me. Good luck.
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I have similar symptoms and after years narrowed it down to the fodmaps food group (google ‘fodmaps’).
What helped me in the end was:
•cutting out garlic entirely
•cutting out onions mostly.
• cutting out diet drinks as the sweeteners are in the same family and are EVIL to your digestion if you’re fodmaps sensitive.
• checking lists of high fodmaps foods when eating something new, just in case
• taking ‘Beano’ (US) or ‘Bean assist’ (in the UK) before meals containing onion or garlic if I can’t avoid them. These contain a digestible enzyme that help you cope better.
• if all else fails and you get bloating etc, take activated charcoal which you can get from chemists. This is amazing stuff which I once read is in every kitchen cupboard for digestive distress in some Eastern European countries, yet is barely known here. It absorbs all the gas generated and so greatly relieves symptoms.
Cheap to buy, I buy little black pills from amazon which I eat at the first sign.
The above steps have been a life changer for me. Good luck.
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