FI means fructose intolerance and LI means lactose intolerance. GI is gluten intolerance.
Your doc is right that weight loss isn't an IBS thing, unless a person has relentess D (someone I work with is having that and weight loss but she is in denial).
My 2c is that you should have another GI test. I had a false positive once or could have been a subsequent false negative. The symptoms of GI are D and bloating and loss of weight. The test shows up negative if you haven't been eating gluten.
Yeah that scenario of a colonoscopy would suck! and wouldn't be necessary, except for your weight loss points to something more and an absolutely positive IBS diagnosis is not sound IMO, nor is blaming it all on fructose reasonable. But I understand the desire to want to have something that you can do something about, i.e. FI, you avoid fructose and are fine; GI, you avoid gluten and are fine. That would be great!
Your mom shouldn't be telling people if you don't want her to but when you accept having an illness and become unembarrassed of it and you choose to tell people yourself, it makes it so much more liveable. When you realize that everyone occassionally has the things you have often and that is all, it makes it less shameful and not so stressful. It takes a long time to learn that though, but if you knew how private I have always been about things and the experiences I have had that make me now say to just be open about it, you may be more impressionable. 
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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