I Have Ibs Stories of Experiences

When I was 14 I was diagnosed with IBS. Through the years I have tried many, many things to try and calm it. My doctor suggested cutting certain food groups out eg dairy and gluten. Well that, I can safely say didn't work.

Since...

Ibs is more prevalent in females than males. As a man who has struggled with ibs-m for years I feel very much alone. No one seems to understand the near constant pain,especially after meals. No one seems to understand that it has no...

I've had ibs since I was 12. I'm 19 now. My brother, my mother, and my grandmother all have it to a varying degree. My brother calls it the family curse. I spent all of middle school and high school dealing with it, trying to hide it...

HI tehre..

I am suffering from IBS since last 8-10 years. I used to eat chicken and goat meat, however since IBS cought me, i have become a pure veggy.

Probably because I am a vegitarin guy, i suffer from IBS symptoms only in...

Over the past 3 years, I been dealing with abdominal pain, and was told I have muscle spasms. I find eating spaghetti sauce irritates my stomach. I deal with a lot of gas and also find that I been now having a constant pain which some...

SO when I was 12, in the summer of 2011, my mom decided to dump me to this camp. I however wasn't close to anyone and was very anxious and nervous all the time. it was like hell for me. I then never had a bowel movement for a week and...

It seems my stomach reacts to everything I eat.. Gas moves around in my gut and makes me feel uncomfortable. The noises are embarrassing to the point that I ask my profs to take midterms privately to avoid failing from anxiety. I fear...

I was diagnosed with IBS-D about 2 years ago. For almost a year I've been using Lomotil, which helps decrease the frequency of my bathroom trips but doesn't help the diarrhea aspect of it. I saw a GI specialist about twice - once for a...

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I had my first daughter in the early summer of 2009, I was 20 years old. Before getting pregnant, I was very healthy, active, and fast paced! Never, drank, smoked, or partied. I then had my second daughter in winter of 2010. About two...

Well, as the title says...I'm a newly diagnosed IBS-D sufferer. I have had problems for a year but just now got diagnosed but I'm not complaining. I've heard it takes years to get a correct diagnosis from it sometimes. Anyway....its...

I have had IBS since i was a teenager. I constantly battle with my weight and have cut out so much, keeping my calorie intake well below 1000 a day and still my belly looks huge, sometimes i look pregnant and its soul destroying when i...

I have had IBS since I was 24 I am 47 now.  My diet consist mostly of pasta, rice, potatoes, bland foods. I have what they call Fiber induced IBS. Meaning I can not eat foods high in fiber, nor spicy, greasy, rich or dairy either...

I have IBS & chronic constipation... If you're part of the experience group, I probably don't need to explain any further. You know the overview. But what I find to be the biggest problem for me is the constant abdominal bloating. It...

I'm 16 years old and I have I.B.S. and Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis.
Because of my I.B.S. I have a long list of food intolerance's including : dairy,wheat,egg,soy,nuts,gluten,sea food, beef, oils, nutmeg,pear,coconut. I have symptoms of...

  Its been over 10 years now, but i do remember when i was 17 i was first diagnosed with IBS.  Even as i went to the GI doctor over the next year, and everything they gave me to read said "eat more fiber" and that was all the info...

Ok, first off I want to say hello to everyone. Anyways I have IBS and another number of stomach problems. It got real bad when we moved and I had to start at a new school where I didn't know anybody. No matter how hard I tried I...

i hate not been able to go out without scouting where all the toilets are at any given event

to try to get to the bottom of it.

Crap joke aside, I'm not looking forward to it, but hopefully it will be a step forward in terms of diagnosis and my health.

I have had problems with IBS since i was probably in seventh grade. I just got diagnosed two years ago. I had anti-spasm medication that would sometimes constipate me and sometimes would give me diarhea. I never have a normal BM anymore...