Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | When is time to give up?- long, but please read

I know you must be frustrated with me. I'm trying what you said, honestly.

If you read the posts I made above, it addresses a lot of questions you asked. Yes, I just started back on the lexapro, but I think I emailed you about that already.

I know there isn't a cure for IBS. I'm not searching for that, believe me! I know it can only be "managed". What I'm searching for is anything else this could possibly be in hopes that there will be a cure for that.

To make me even more confused, my GI doc today told me he doesn't think I have IBS! This is after 10 years of my old internal med doc and my old GI doc telling me I did! He offered no other diagnosis, no advice, just leaves me frustrated and in tears from this ambiguety! He was tired and crabby as I saw him after a long day and he was not very empathetic or patient. I wouldn't even know how to find a good GI doc, and hate the thought of going through all the pains of reiterating my whole story to another doctor, getting med records sent from my 2 previous GI docs. which brings up another confusion! One GI says I have IBS and no Celiac, and the other says I don't have IBS now and I do have to be Gluten Free! Two totally different conclusions in the same year. See how I am so stressed and confused and just wanting some definitive answer? I hate doctors. I really do. How can I get two opposite responses from to GI docs? What did they get there degrees in? Like the weather people. Do they just guess? That's reassuring isn't it.

Casey, did you have a doctor diagnose you with IBS? Do you wonder if it might be something else? But then you have had success with this diet, so that's pretty convincing.

Thanks for the little pep talk. Yes, I have tried new foods

And thanks for realizing that the GF thing is tough. It is tough because I can't make Heather's breads or eat oatmeal or luna bars which have become stables for so many. NOt to mention a fricken loaf of 13 pieces of GF bread cost me 7 bucks! I'm trying to substitute microwaved sweet potatoes or boiled potato and lentils with carrots in place of sandwiches for lunch.

Anyhow, I need to email you this weekend. I need to let you know about my frustrating GI doc. He has totally turned my life for a loop here! For 10 years I've been told by others and him in the past that I have IBS. Was he just in a bad mood and frustrated so he changed his mind. He is very moody and if you catch him on an off day, he get's cranky and doesn't listen or spits out something he might not mean. I will call him Tuesday when he is in (and hopefully in a better mood) and ask him again what he meant. I think it is time for another doctor to break the tie between the two different diagnoses!

Now that I'm thinking about it, I did see another GI doc and she also thought it was a motility problem. Is that the same as IBS? Another doc who had no bed side manner and made me feel like I was wasting her time with just having this silly condition and not something more serious like crohns or colitis.

Okay, the rest in an email.

Thanks for your support, sweet Casey. You know how I feel about you. And what you said in your post on what you are proud about yourself today, right on! I second all that.

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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!

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