hi everyone, i signed up to this support group for IBS about a year ago n gave up on it, im not sure why, but anyway i am back, mainly because i want to talk to other people with the same annoying problem that just never seems to go. at the moment i am having symptoms everyday. for me IBS was a gradual thing; it first started in the last year of uni and possibly worsened after going on hol to dubai. it started as just grumbly tummy/ intestines in seminars and at cinema n then got to the point where i just felt like i was guna poo myself all the time, which i have yet to do, thank goodness. ive had the camera down my throat cos one of my blood tests came back inconclusive, then the biopsy came back inconclusive for coeliac, any way that was that the docs stopped there. then i went back again n went for an ultrasound, to which the doc said he could see loads of gas. anyway, ive tried loadsa different meds and alternative type remedies, some seem to work better than others but dont make me feel like i used to. bit by bit this condition wrecks ur social life, i went from being a really outgoing person to someone who prefers to not go out on big social events and now its even got to the point where even with my close friends im not seeing them much cos its easier to not go rather than have to leave early n feel all uncomfortable. most of my friends seem to understand but that still doesnt make it an easier to be honest. i still push myself to do things though and do quite a bit really when i think about it, but it is very hard when have all these awful symptoms, like u all will know. anyway, im a 25year old female who has just moved to manchester, so if anyone around this area or elsewhere wants to have a good moan about IBS and swap ideas for possible 'cures' message me. i think we should all get together and go to the cinema (providing it has quite a few toilets) or somewhere else and just think so wot if we need to spend 20 mins in every hour or two on the toilet then so be it, we maybe need to take on a so what attitude, what is the worst that can happen, if we all stand together it won't be as embarrassing SHOULD the worse happen xxxx