Yeah another PA'r. Where abouts are you from in PA? I'm in between Allentown and Philadelphia.
I just joined this site last month and found it so very helpful too. It is so nice to have other people relate to you. I've finally convinced my husband that there are other people out there like me and that I'm not the only one who suffers with this terrible problem. Even though my mother and my sister have IBS too you tend to think it's just hereditary and that just our family had it but to see so many other people with the same issues and worries is so comforting.
I too went through some lab tests and a flexible sigmoidoscopy when I was 21 and since they found nothing they gave me the IBS diagnosis. Which, like you said is a good and bad thing. I kinda wanted them to say ok this is what is wrong and we have a solution for you. Instead they gave you the line of crap about how to eat more fiber, watch eating this, watch eating that and OH don't forget...try to have less stress in your life. Yeah right . No wonder you have stress...having a set of twins? That's enough to put you over the deep end when they were first born huh!
I lost two friends this past year to cancer too and it was hard. Believe it or not my IBS stayed steady though. I'm the kind of person that can handle through the stress at the time of the stress then BAM just when I'm not expecting it, delayed reaction, my IBS would then kick in. I'm also the opposite of you though, I can't eat. I loose weight and it stinks cause it takes me FOREVER to gain it back!
You can't let it take over your life! Don't let it beat you. There are many a times I cried with frustration over it cause I couldn't be normal and eat and socialize like everyone else for fear of my IBS> I've since gottent he attitude that this is how my life is and I have to live with it.
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. No wonder you have stress...having a set of twins? That's enough to put you over the deep end when they were first born huh! 
