Hi guys,I am a 16 year old girl who had suffered with "IBS" for two years - and I put "IBS" in quotes for a reason - and they FINALLY figured out what it is. I hope my story can be an inspiration to some of you to not give up on what you know you're feeling.Basically, heres the story: I was perfectly normal until 9th grade, and suddenly my stomach started making LOUD noises. When I say loud, I mean lawn-mower L-O-U-D. That was for about a year, and then the daily nausea started. I was passing blood in my stool from time to time, and eventually it came to a point where I only ate wheat bread and water and I had lost a lot of weight. So I finally went to a gastroenterologist. He did the colonoscopy/endoscopy job on me... and turned up with nothing except hemerroids to explain the bleeding. So he gave me pepcid.And so I went on for another year. I vomited, felt nauseous, EXTREME gas pain EVERY DAY. I hated going to school and felt so out of place there, I used to get panic attacks because I was afraid my stomach would make some terrible noise...Then my blood pressure reading came up high. When they did an ultrasound they found that I was unable to empty my "bladder" and had "kidney problems". They went through a bunch of diagnoses (neurogenic bladder, duplicated uterus.Bottom line: They FINALLY do an MRI, FINALLY see that I have a cyst the size of a basketball in my stomach, and now I'm going in this tuesday for abdominal surgery. They're not sure where the cyst is attached to, but it's massive, pushing my stomach up, my bladder down, and my intestines are an incoherent mush. During the surgery they are going to see if it is an ovarian cyst or something else.If you have these symtoms and you are a female: distended stomach with stretch marks, nausea, vomiting, gas pains in weird places like your back, smelly burps, loud stomach, blood in your stool... PLEASE check it out, and please go to a good doctor... I feel so much for all of you. Here's to normal lives again, away from doctors and IBS...