Claire, I'm sorry it took me a couple days to reply, I haven't had a chance to check this board since my post that you replied to!
I don't think there's any way my IBS is not related to my eating disorder. I developed the symptoms just four months after my recovery. I was seeing a nutritionist at the time, and she thought I had a specific food allergy, but we worked on that for quite a while and couldn't pinpoint anything. Meanwhile, she had me go to my doctor in case I had colon cancer or something more serious...which fortunately was not the case. My doctor did run several tests, none of which were pleasant, but all of which turned out negative. She then diagnosed me with IBS and advised me to follow a diet very similar to Heathers, and told me to call her if my symptoms didn't improve. They did, dramatically, so her conclusion is that I have IBS.
I, too, sometimes read about other similar disorders and freak out. But don't most of these require a prescription drug to manage? The fact that I can control my symptoms with diet and exercise alone gives me the comfort (if you can call it that!) that what I have is IBS and not something more severe.
It depresses me too that after years of avoiding certain foods because of fear of becoming fat, now I have to avoid them for fear of an attack. It seems like it's not fair. Please feel free to email or PM me if you want to talk about this. It seems like we have a lot in common, and we could help each other out! (or at the very lease, relate to each other's struggles!)
Take care,
Jane 
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Hi Claire!
