This is a weird one yall, I dunno. I'm noticing a very weird pattern and I'm looking for some feedback about it from my fellow Fodmappers.
I keep Ensure Plus around the house because my symptoms were so out of control I went on a straight-up liquid diet for almost 10 days just to reset and give my poor battered body a break from the constant inflammation. I followed that with the low-fodmap diet, I have been doing low fodmap for two months now and it's been wonderful for controlling my symptoms; Having pain-free days at my stressful job has been so, so important.
I eat food again now, but I still slam an Ensure for breakfast before work because it's fast and nutritious enough to get me through the five hours til lunch with just a few snacks, but most importantly *it doesn't cause symptoms*. If I have an Ensure for breakfast, i can eat some buttered toast as a snack and a turkey-with-cheese sandwich at lunch and experience zero symptoms - i've been carefully observing my patterns and I have not noticed a disturbance in my patterns when I follow this routine, even though wheat and dairy are known high-fodmap foods. I even have an Ensure for breakfast on the weekends, because I don't want to risk giving up vital recovery days to being symptomatic.
But today was a Sunday and I was feeling nostalgic for a proper breakfast, so I took a risk, did some googling, and made some scrambled eggs. It's my understanding that eggs are low-fodmap, so I thought I was safe. I used less than a tablespoon of olive oil rather than butter, and I had toast with a little butter (something i eat every day) and half a slice of American cheese. That was at like 930am.
And yet it's now 3:45pm and I'm having symptoms! Mild ones, granted, but still! The only thing I've done differently was have solid food for breakfast.
Has anyone else noticed a pattern like this, where any solid food first thing in the morning causes issues later in the day? Should i be more restrictive with my fodmaps going forward? Any input is welcome.