I figure if I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't be having the IBS problems I have. My IBS is a morning problem. About 99% of the time it's in the morning. And I can spend 1-2 hours in there (I get alot of reading done!)- that time is all at once or several trips back and forth. I know the foods that trigger it: spinach, blueberries, nuts, garlic, onions, etc. If I ate just meat and potatoes and rice I guess I wouldn't have problems. But I love food!! Chocolate is also very hard on my stomach. Garlic is a huge problem now- it didn't use to be but it sure is now. In fact right now I don't know if I have the flu or a bad reaction to eating some chocolate last weekend and some garlic (not mixed together). But it has been a terrible, bad week. But it's every morning that I spend at least an hour in the bathroom. I go from D to C- no set pattern (although chocolate causes me more C). I do have some meds that I take: hyoscyamine (under the tongue), dicyclomine (take during the day) and chlordiaz/clidinium which I take at night since it makes me sleepy. They all help to some degree but like this week has been a bad week and I am very achy- is it the flu or just residuals from my IBS??? I don't know. But I have lived with this forever and a day. It rules my life. Hoping for a better tomorrow, Judy