But not much rice. I eat a lot of local, pastured meats, sweet potatoes, much coconut oil for cooking and seasonings, so it doesn't seem bland. I find chicken very bland and would have trouble eating it more than a few times per week.
Used to have digestive upset, though in my case I'm not convinced FODMAPS had anything to do with it (like I said, unintentionally low fodmap). Nightshades seemed to have the greatest correlation for me.
Yeah, I think for those of us with "Generic IBS" we need to be aggressive in trying out different approaches to try and heal our gut issues.
I went paleo once I realized wheat was causing me all sorts of stomach issues, and over the years I drifted more and more towards a "natural and whole food" diet, and as my intake of veggies grew, I realized that asparagus and brussel sprouts seemed to do a number of me. When I went to the gastroenterologist to try and figure out what was going on there, he first recommended drugs, which I declined, but he then suggested looking into the FODMAP diet, and it turned out that most fructans were triggers, as well as some polyols.
When I ate wheat, I suffered from tenesmus, depression, back acne, short-term memory loss, alternating constipation/diarrhea, migraines, etc. Now my only symptoms are diarrhea and some stomach pain when eating fructans. I'm hoping going FODMAP only will solve the remaining issues I have.
All that said, I'm just advocating that we try whatever we can so collectively we can get data on what works and what doesn't. If we just accept the doctors diagnosis of IBS and treat it with drugs, we'll never collectively solve the underlying problem.
I hardly think about it anymore. And I'm very glad to have figured it out without pharmaceuticals.