HI. My IBS got much worse during menopause. It started to worsen then I was about 50 years old. I couldn't eat lettuce at all, nor any foods in the cabbage family, nor anything dairy. Instead of always having c, I sometimes had d also. Lots of gas and cramping too. I now know that when hormones begin to surge and dip during perimenopause and menopause, IBS can get worse. It also seemed that eating soy bothered me, when it had never bothered me before. Taking hormones also made it much worse. So I got off the hormones and just waited it out. Now that I'm 58, my hot flashes, and IBS are subsiding to where I can eat small serving of the previously forbidden foods, without any problems at all. The cramps and d are gone. I'm back to how I was before. Interesting.