Hi
I recently had a bit of a change up in my diet. I used to get ibs years ago, alternating between normal most of the time, sluggish/constipation some of the time and spasmodic colon a little of the time.
Since about March this year, I noticed my bowel getting very sluggish, the BM’s were normal but it could go up to 5 days before I had a movement. The only dietary change was that I stopped adding nuts to my morning porridge - I’m fine with nuts except too many give me loose stools.
I was also starting to get a lot of colds so decided to improve my diet to get my system moving. I added the nuts back, got things going with some nightly warm lemon water and started to have fruit with my lunch instead of cake. Usually an apple or nectarine, plus small amounts of grapes through the day.
It really worked brilliantly, bowel in top condition. I stopped the lemon and cut back on the nuts but was enjoying the fruit do kept on with that.
Everything has been fine the past couple of months but 3 days ago, I had a perfectly normal morning BM, but about 10 mins after lunch, with an apple, I had the urge again. I never ever go twice in a day, and this was loose. Nothing following day, then the last 2 days I’ve just had morning BM’s and both gave been very loose.
I know things likes apples and grapes can be a trigger, but would they start to cause problems almost 3 months later?
A couple of years ago, I started drinking more fresh OJ, but had to stop as it gave m diarrhoea, but that was about 3 weeks after starting it.
Just wondering if this could be a separate issue as I’m not sure what made my bowels so sluggish in the first place. The slight change in diet definitely helped, but could this now be sending me too far the other way?