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I am at my wit's end w/ doctors lately. For the few of you who have helped me w/ specific questions, I greatly appreciate it.

I need to know if this sounds like what anyone else goes through. Six months ago I started noticing diarrhea (watery to just loose). Nothing painful at first. Over the next few months it got much worse. I now experience near constant pain about two inches above my navel. It is not relieved by having a bowel movement in anyway. I also have a lot of gas and bloating.

I had a normal colonoscopy. All of my bloodwork has came back normal. No parasites. I had an endoscopy done, where the doc. found some "flattening" of the villi in my small intestine. But my biopsy was inconclusive so she said I have IBS.

I have tried Heather's diet in the past, albeit not for an extended period of time, and shown absolutely no improvement. The longest I ever made it was when I got to the point where I was eating cream of rice three meals a day because it seemed like anything else made me sick.

The only relief I have found is with Librax. I'm on 4 tab. a day. Nulev,and Bentyl didn't even touch the pain. It even still hurt quite a bit when I took a Tylenol #3.

It seems to be aggravated by alcohol. Once pork sent me in a spin, a couple of days later I tried it again and was fine. Got really sick one day after French onion soup w/o cheese. I've even gotten worse from applesauce and fat free saltines.

Any ideas would be appreciated to no end.

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