if you eat something that bothers you, when do you see the "results"?

Hekela, it depends on what's called your "transit time." That's the time from when you swallow food until when it exits the other end. Usually when you're flaring it's shorter, because your inflamed colon passes it along too quickly. "Normal" is 24-36 hours, but it can be longer or shorter, even for apparently healthy people. I can always measure mine by eating some corn. Oddly enough, it never bothered my colon, but there were times it would reappear the morning after I had it for dinner the evening before.

I did the transit time test too with corn and for me it was 12 hours. But with foods that are not easily digested such as corn, the transit time is faster then let's say fiberous foods or meats. The stomach has to take longer to break it down before it transfers to the small intestine. So yes, the "normal" transit time is 24-72 hours.

I know within 4-8 hours! Judy