With Fibromyalgia: What Can you Eat without problems? IBS? GERD?

First, I take Prevacid for my GERD. Occasionally I will still get some heartburn but I find sucking on peppermints help. There is also peppermint tea or, what I drink, Eater's Digest tea which contains peppermint, chamomille, licorice and other digestive aids. It helps for all kinds of stomach ailments. As far as foods I eat, I never know what is going to affect me and when. I know that overeating (ie when you go out to a restaurant) I will definitely get cramps. I know I cannot eat lettuce leaves of any sort so that rules out salad. Cream sauces are bad too. At this point in time (11 years later) I have found that raw fruit and veggies are the only way to go. The salad we have for dinner every night is tomatoes & cucumber. We stopped eating broccoli and cauliflower. They just don't work for bad digestive systems. Sometimes I will eat my raw veggies with dip, and that's not good because the dip is creamy. For lunch every day I eat what are considered high alkalide fruits (which are recommended by health professionals). I eat watermelon, canteloupe, honey dew melon and pineapple. Sometimes strawberries. All kinds of berries are good. What I find unpredictable is, for example, ice cream. Sometimes it bothers me, sometimes it doesn't. I stopped eating cake with icing. That's a big no-no. We go to McDonald's every Saturday for dinner because we go to Mass from 5pm to 6pm. It was a ploy we used to get the kids to behave in church so we never stopped. I always have the same thing - a crispy chicken sandwich. I do not order pop and fries. Now there are lettuce and mayonnaise on this sandwich. - both make my IBS act up. So why do I get cramps sometimes and not other times? I don't get that. Tonight it didn't bother me at all. Other times I am flooring it to get home to the bathroom. I know I probably shouldn't be eating it at all but I do love that sandwich! I think there are no easy answers with IBS. I really, honestly believe every individual is different and you have to find what works for you. When I got the pamphlet about the Alkalides versus Acids to keep the PH balanced I started eating those fruits every day and I have felt great eating those. You might want to see if you can get your hands on this pamphlet. It is put out by Genuine Health at www.genuinehealth.com. Good luck!