Hello all,I'm new here, and it's really nice to meet you all and talk to you. I just discovered this website, and my mouth is just hanging open when I see that all of you are posting and talking about this disease and these horrible symptoms that have been controlling my life for the past two years. I'm only sixteen and these past couple years have been h*ll, but I've finally found out that there's a name for this stupid thing that gives me so much pain.I am so amazed and I feel so inspired that there are people who have this same condition and that I am not alone. I really thought that I was alone and that no one understood or could diagnose the pain that I was going through. I'm still really scared, because like I read somewhere in this board, IBS attacks mentally as much as it does physically, and I have gotten so depressed over the fact that I thought I was going to be in pain for the rest of my life. I'm not on any medicines yet, I just barely found out that IBS is what I have. So please bear with me, I'm a newbie and I may ask stupid questions. But I just wanted to say thank you in advance because it helps so much knowing I'm not alone.