I can remember as far back as 3rd grade having awful bathroom problems.
My diet wasn't bad. I wasn't a junk food addict.
Like the only years in my life I was nutritionally negligent was 2012 and 2014.
So the waves of intense diarrhea and constipation,
bloody stools, etc. Became a norm for me. I had a colonoscopy when I was 19, they saw nothing.
My grandmother has the same problem. We both
were given the generic IBS/possible IBD diagnosis and no typical medicine gave us relief. I
t was frustrating being told many years of
my life by doctors to eat healthier. I WAS! I'm not big on sweets much,
yeah I do like chips but I was never crazy with them. So for
years I just accepted it because the doctors (several) said it's just how it is.
It wasn't until I met a doctor in 2016 who asked me if my
grandmother or I had been genetic tested for Celiac. Nope.
Low and behold, after my diagnosis, I told her and bam she was was diagnosed
after being tested too. So for all these years, I'm not a bread fiend but obviously gluten
IS IN A LOT OF THINGS, I just had soul splitting bathroom
episodes because of the sandwiches and such I'd eat. Wow, way to find out so very very late.
Why were hands thrown up and shoulders shrugged
all these years? I was consistently blamed for a bad diet and not being honest
when that wasn't the problem. @_@ A few months after cutting
out gluten and I was using the bathroom like a normal person. How amazing it is to poop,
effectively! On occasion I'll still eat something with
Gluten either by mistake or "Fuck it that looks good" and I severely pay for it usually. xD

Spent $5000 over the course of a dozen or more visits trying to figure out her problem.
No answers. Intense steaming diarrhea, bloody, going like 5-8 times a day.
Not making it to the litter box on time.
She was always grain free. Tried elimination diet suggested by vet. No luck.
Tried prescription diet. She got massively worse.
They had her on antibiotics for 27 days, dewormed her 5 times,
and even gave her this med to fight against the growth of cancer cells
(which were never confirmed her blood work was fine.) several procedures
and meds and she was getting worse by the day.
Until I spoke with a feline nutritionist who said. "Put her on a brand name
raw diet for 10 days, preferably rabbit or venison or duck.
Let me know what happens." About day 6 her diarrhea was gone.
and now a week or so later after that she is great. No symptoms.
Happy and peppy. :/ The nutritionist suggested the raw, but the vets I was going to were
EXTREMELY against raw and told me trying it would
be putting her at risk. Don't even think about it. But here she is,
seemingly better and needing to heal from the long course of antibiotics.
Again, $5000 in vet appointments. Going as fa as treating non confirmed cancer.
Vs a simple diet change I was told would be bad- but has
been the single only thing to restore her health. I just have to make sure I am safe about how I feed the raw.
(I use a freeze dried raw as
it's less likely to make a mistake compared to raw-raw.)