Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

Hi,
I'm going to do my best to participate on these boards more often. I've not been able to stabilize for more than a few days ever since last May when I had an extremely stressful 3 week business trip. It feels to me like that trip made my C-IBS even worse than it already was! Has anyone ever had this happen?

So anyway, seems like every time I start to do join in here, within a short time I have another bad period of lots of bloating, pain and severe constipation. Then I feel so awful and get so bummed out that I have no enthusiasm for cooking or baking, both of which I like to do, let alone being online. So, I'm hoping that making myself stay more involved here will help me during my ongoing repeated"down" episodes.

Also, I'm getting so tired of eating the same foods day after day. I've lost 12 Ibs since last July and I was already thin [I'm now 5'9 and 122]. All my friends are concerned but they say that they just can't deal with preparing food per this diet when I visit; they all say it's much too complicated. Even worse, if we go out a number of them have said that they think I've become neurotic about how I eat and that's why I'm having all my problems!! Of course, these reactions are adding to my feeling very discouraged and it's not helping my social life at all. I basically don't do anything unless I can bring my own food! Is this how others' friends react???

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Many years of C-IBS and pain too for past 2 years-

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