Ok here you go!

I am new to this blog and I am going out with someone tonight and I don't know if reading all these stories will make be better or worst !!!

I am a 23 year old male.

So it all began 2 and a half years ago! I was with this girl driving her home after eating a "melting hot chocolate cake (fondant)" and i was stuck in traffic, and suddenly i felt my stomack popping.I fainted !! So she kept asking what's wrong and I was like " nothing " telling myself if she asks one more time I am gonna throw her out of the car. ( I am not a mean person but you guys would understand : ) )

And literally I was "standing up and driving" ...
I had 3 choices :
1 either throw her out of the car
2 throw myself out of the car
3 or let it go

So miraculously enough we arrived at her place, and she was willing to talk more before i shut her up and I drove like crazy to a close mall.. I spent 2 hours in the bathroom, meanwhile i was thanking god that I resisted...

At 16 I acquired Crohns Disease, became totally obstructed, and had surgery to remove 4 feet of my small intestine. I suffered with diarrhea and blood in my stools everyday for almost 30 years.

My skin has become ultra sensitive, so I can wear almost no clothes without breaking out and having my skin burning. I have to take a multiple enzyme pill everyday or my skin burns all over no matter what clothes I wear. I have to use special shampoo or my head breaks out with sores and massive dandruff.

Then I acquired IBS constipation, which turns my life upside down further. It ends up I also have a rectal prolapse from straining, and can't seem to make a bowel movement without taking an enema everyday. I'm on Medicaid, and have to travel a 165 miles just to see a GI doctor that tells me he can't do anything for me. (My next appointment with him in in January in the middle of winter)

I'm 21. And I have IBS-D and have had it for 2 years. ! of those years was undiagnosed. My story is not a great one, since my life has now been chaotic and destroyed.

I had just started University and everything in my life was great. It all started near the first exam time, December 2006. My stomach would not tolerate any garlic or anything spicey, I just took it as a sign I needed to change my diet. Nothing bad started until the Summer of 2007.

I'm a 35 year old female and last year I stared getting this pain on my left lower side.

I booked appointment with my gp and she said my smear was over due so had that done at the end of november i got a call from my surgery to say I had to go to the hospital for a gyno appointment my smear was abnormal.

Anyway 2 ops later they had got rid of the cells iam now waiting for a hysterectomy but now I have anxiety realy bad every day I think I have cancer I have been to the doctors and he's saying I have IBS. I have stomach pain mostly upper left lower left for 7 months.

I had a terrible bout of sickness and diarrhoea lasted 4 days, didn't go to the doctor just carried on with life as soon as I could stand.Never felt well since, after about 3 months thought I'd better check out the 'change in bowel habits'got sent for a colonoscopy, because of my age! Doctor started talking about colitis and crohns and then gave me mesalazine, I had a terrible reaction to it and suffered horrendous stomach pain,but even so 2 different doctors insisted I take it again the consultant even insisted I try another brand of the same medication.Then they started messing with the meds I had for GERD, saying they were the cause of all my problems. After a year of rubbish treatment I changed hospitals and after another colonoscopy they have decided I have IBS-PI.

Two years ago I had my gall bladder removed. I was so happy at the time because I thought it would be the end of my chronic heartburn, diarrhea, vomiting, gas etc. (I was also diagnosed with GERD and a hiatal hernia as well, but I was given Prevacid for that,and felt good--for awhile.) Little did I know that it was only the beginning.

I've offically had IBS for 7 years now. It took me about 5 and a 1/2 years to get myself into a PERFECT routine with it. I was able to wake up in the morning, and know what i could and couldn't eat for the day. I knew how many times I would need to go to the toilet before the pains would pass and etc. I TRAINED MY BOWELS TO ONLY OPEN ONCE A DAY!! (Of course i would still have some bad days occasionally, It was like a dormant volcano!). That was until the Dr's discovered I had a 6cm Cyst attach to my ovary, as well as 5 more just floating around and a kidney stone! So I was off to surgery! A planned Key Hole surgery turned into a major operation which left me with 16 staples under my stomache! "Well at least they're gone!" I was actually excited to hear that I had these cysts as the DR said that they may have been setting off my IBS from time to time...NOPE! After a few months my IBS was so bad I couldn't eat, sleep or go to work. I was so drained of energy!

I'm just your regular 15 year old girl. That has diarrhea more often than not.

About a two years ago I was struck with severe never ending stomach pain and I ended up missing about 4 or 5 months of my eighth grade school year. The pain ceased about a year and a half ago when my gall bladder was removed.

Since then, I have been stuck with IBS. Painful bouts have just become a part of my life. It's embarrassing, painful, and I end up missing a lot of school in fear that I'll get sick there. I'm in high school. You cannot take a dump, let alone have explosive diarrhea, in the school bathroom without being known as the disgusting kid for the rest of your time there.

When I do go to school, I sometimes have to leave school right before a test, right before a cross country meet, or I have to cancel plans with friends about a half hour before because it will come so suddenly and out of nowhere.

It has completely taken over my life.

By: daedsiluap

Ok, so I'm a twenty year old girl and I'm a student about to start my third year at university. Like everyone else here I also have IBS. For as long as I can remember I've struggled with my stomach, but it has definately got worse as I've got older. At school it was ok most of the time, I'd have the odd attack every month or so, but pretty easy to cope with. I had all these grand dreams about travelling, and having a great job, but now I struggle to get through a single lecture.

I believe my diagnosed IBS originates from me being an EXTREME emetophobiac, I have suffered many many experiences in grade school with vomiting classmates (on my bookbag, in my lunchbox, on me, in my pool, on the door thus trapping me in with it, and 5-10 additional occasions) So, I have developed a horrible phobia of that... sickness...

I could deal with it up until my own personal traumatic experience with sickness when I was 18, where I suffered symptoms of the stomach flu for several months. Basically I would wake up every day at like 5 am, have the runs, and dry heave for several hours. I was so petrified of vomiting and having something actually come up, so during those months I never ate anything. I lost over 50 pounds from that, and needless to say, it completely messed my body up.