Sugar Allergic reaction???

This has happened to me several times. Has this happened to anyone else?
Sometimes if I eat too much sugar - which I know will cause my IBS-C to flare up, but hey, I'm only human - I'll bloat way up and my gut and most of my lower body retain fluid and none of my pants fit. I get horribly constipated and sometimes even my upper body is a bit puffy. The whole thing lasts a good 5 days. My doctor doesn't seem to know what I mean but I swear, something is going on. I also get very warm and sweat a lot during this time. Then after about 5 days I pee a lot finally and look more normal.
It isn't just my gut that is puffy, it's my hips, even inner thighs and calves/ankles. Am I crazy? This has happened before. I gain about 5 pounds in one week. I work out pretty hard too - run 30 miles per week, Spin classes 3 times per week, elliptical once per week, walk the dog for an hour 7 days per week. HELP.

I forgot to mention, if I eat a lot of carbs - not just flat-out sweets, but like bread or crackers - I get this weird phlegm in my throat and I have to cough it out. But those do contain some sugars.
I had a celiac allergy test and I'm not allergic to wheat.
All I do know is that this is not in my head - I can plainly see it on my body and it upsets me because I feel so fat and gross and fat.

I don't mean to be dumb but can you further explain what you mean by inflammation? Is that the swelling/fluid retention I experience?
I'm sure that everybody experiences different reactions too - diarrhea vs. constipation. Either way it is no fun at all.

What feeds yeast and causes it to rise?

I also have fructose intolerance and it is pretty bad. I am so sensitive that even a little tiny bit kills me.

What actually is your salt intake?

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"Doctors are less sure why women with PMS retain water. British physician Katharina Dalton, who has researched PMS for 45 years, has suggested that the problem is related to the fact that when women have PMS, their blood sugar levels may fluctuate abnormally--which indirectly leads to bloating.

What does this mean? In her book, Once a Month, Dr. Dalton says that when a person doesn't eat for many hours, blood sugar gets very low. This causes the body to release adrenaline, which signals the body to let go of some of its stored sugar from cells in order to balance out the blood sugar. When sugar is taken from the cells, they fill up with water, and this is what causes the bloating, weight gain and water retention symptoms in those with PMS. In women with PMS, the body reaches the point when it will release adrenaline a lot sooner than it does in other women, Dr. Dalton notes.

Other experts see a sodium link. When your blood breaks down progesterone--as it does a week before your period--your kidneys are prompted to retain both water and sodium. At the same time, a powerful water-retaining substance called anti-diuretic hormone may also be released, further influencing =adlinkMouseOver(event,this,5); onmouseout=adlinkMouseOut(event,this,5); onclick=adlinkMouseClick(event,this,5); href="#" target=_top>your body to hold onto fluids. "

http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/62/97.cfm

Sugar can cause bloating in IBS for other reasons as well.

 

Bloating and Distension in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Role of Gastrointestinal Transit

OBJECTIVES: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome and constipation (IBS-C) show more abdominal distension than do those with diarrhea. Because constipation is often associated with delayed gastrointestinal transit, this study aimed at establishing whether patients with delayed transit show more distension and bloating than do those with normal transit.

METHODS: Abdominal girth was recorded for 24 h using abdominal inductance plethysmography (AIP) in 30 IBS-C (Rome II criteria) patients (aged 18–68 years; 27 women) and in 30 healthy volunteers (21–58 years of age; 26 women). Within 2 weeks of this recording, orocecal and colonic transits were assessed. Orocecal transit was determined from the increase in breath hydrogen after a standard meal, and colonic transit from the number of radio-opaque markers identified on a plain abdominal X-ray. Bloating severity was assessed hourly during AIP recording using a 0–5 scale.

RESULTS: IBS-C patients showed more bloating and distension than did healthy volunteers (P<0.001). They also had prolonged colonic (P<0.001) and orocecal (P=0.05) transits than did healthy volunteers, such that 47 and 17%, respectively, had colonic and orocecal transit times greater than the normal reference range. Those with delayed colonic (P=0.025) and orocecal (P=0.13) transits had greater distension but not bloating (P=0.63 and P=0.48, respectively) compared with those with normal transit. Moreover, distension directly correlated with orocecal (r=0.40; P=0.03) and colonic (r=0.51; P=0.004) transit times and inversely with stool consistency (r=-0.43; P=0.07).

CONCLUSIONS: IBS-C patients with delayed transit show greater abdominal distension than do those with normal transit. Therefore, drugs that accelerate transit may be expected to alleviate this troublesome problem.

http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v104/n8/abs/ajg2009251a.html