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People with IBS have uncomfortable digestive symptoms like diarrhea, constipation or both. To ease discomfort, many people cut out certain foods, robbing them of key nutrients. Dietitians say a better first step is slowing down during meals to improve digestion. A diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may have you flipping your diet upside down trying to manage symptoms. “Too …

Tracy Robert believed her bloating and abdominal pain were symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a diagnosis doctors had given her 20 years ago. During her first pregnancy, she was also told she had an internal hemorrhoid after experiencing rectal bleeding, which doctors attributed to her IBS and hemorrhoid history.  ER staff and her primary care doctor advised her to …