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Hello. I am a 45 year old woman and have been an IBS sufferer since the age of 15. For the past 8 months, I have been experiencing a severe pain in my lower left abdomen between 8 and 13 days after the start of my period. The pain usually presents itself on 3 to 4 separate but not consecutive days each and every month, and lasts 3 to 5 hours. Because of the timing of the pain, I am thinking that the pain might be ovulatory in nature, but I wanted to be sure before beginning birth control medication again (which makes me ill for the first 3 months), so I complied with the IBS diet for a month. The good news is, I've experienced a noticeable improvement in my IBS symptoms in the form of regular (daily) bowel movements. The not-so-good news is, the 'ovulatory' pain was just as bad as always this month. My next course of action will be to go back on the pill to prevent ovulation, but I was wondering if any other women with IBS have had a similar experience.

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