BQ, if by accept the diagnosis you mean that I trust my Dr to the point where I am sure of her judgement in stating that I have IBS, then yes, I totally accept to diagnosis she proposed. I've known her since I'm 8 and she was never wrong about what I had.But if you mean to accept diagnosis by being in peace with knowing that have I have IBS, that it changed my life completely and that I have to live with it for most of my life, on and off. I don't accept it no.I'm having a rough time coping. I'm still waiting for it to go away magically. I know it's crazy but everytime I have a remission, I think "maybe this time it's gone for long" at least a couple of years. I just don't know how to manage my social and professional life anymore. I'm lucky for being able to keep my work but my performances are under what I am normally capable of. I feel tired, I have headaches everyday (during flare up) and I'm generally in pain My department also have Xmas dinner and breakfast and bounding activites which I cannot attend because I feel exhausted most of the time or I simply can't eat what they are proposing. When there's alchool they buy a bottle of fruit juice for me and I appreciate it but I feel very diffrent from others.In my personnal life, I am lucky to have found a very good man since only 4 months. We're planning for him to move in with me. But I have to ask him to do a lot of chores since I'm so tired and sick, and we have trouble sleeping together because I don't feel comfortable sharing the bed when I am really sick in the middle of the night. I've always been someone calm and not really social, staying home reading or watching movie. But a little while before being diagnosed, I decide to be more active. I went out with friends, made new friends, attended work activities with coworker, went to movies, learn how to cook delicious meals. And I liked it so much. Now I am back to my old self not being able to do long activities and attend stuff, see friends, have a drink with them. Anything.It's true I don't accept it. But until reading you a moment ago, I wasn't realizing it. Now that I am aware of that, I just don't know what to do with it. I don't know if you'd have any kind of suggestion about it? You or anyone else.Thanks for your help.