I'm not an expert at co-habitation, but I'm not that far away from where you are now, either.
To put it bluntly: you're going to fart in front of him... eventually, it's going to happen  lol. I totally understand where you're coming from though with the paranoia and the self-consciousness (gawd, when we moved in together just using the bathroom - and uh, the "noises" - was terribly of stressful for me! I got over that one pretty quickly, heh).
All I'm saying though is that you'll get used to each other's smells and noises and problems and ideosyncracies and such pretty quickly. Maybe not capital-R "Romance" but really, it brings you closer (in a funny, smelly, silly kind of way, lol). And I'm sure he'll be understand (and probably be very helpful and consoling) when you have symptoms - and I'm sure he'll be ok with it. IBS is embarassing, but I've found having someone I can share that embarassment (to a certain extent - i.e. a person I know in person, not just you guys on the boards!) is really helpful. Like, my partner is the person I don't have to worry about being embarassed in front of, and that's a huge stress removed for me. Certainly, it took time to get to this comfortable place - but you WILL get there. It's kind of inevitable, because everyone gets sick at some point and everyone farts and everyone's bodies do gross things etc... and when you live with someone, you get to see that, like it or not 
...lol ok I bet I'm just really selling you on the whole romantic living together thing here aren't I? LOL Really. It's wonderful. You'll see 
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As someone who's lived with someone else for just about 3ish years now...
