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I havent posted in awhile because to be quite honest this can be kind of a depressing place. But I need some help and some reassurance.
I have had IBS my entire life. It would flare every once in a while but then settle down when I took some extra naps or had less stress but since march my IBS has gotten so bad. After spending all of June, July and most of August in and out of the doctor and GI office having every test known to mankind I was diagnosed with IBS. I found this website and started on the diet. I started to feel a little better but even though I was on the diet very strictly I would still have flare ups every once in a while but it would eventually go back down to a level where I could handle it until recently. I stopped having my periods after getting off of Birth control in July and havent had one since. I am so bloated and uncomfortable constantly that I just feel miserable.
I dont understand I have been following the IBS diet very strictly and have been eating almost completely vegan for two months. I have a doctors appt tomorrow but I am so scared that they wont find anything and I will have to continue living this way. I am only twenty years old. This is no way to live.
Any advice or suggestions or ideas on what might be going on would be so greatly helpful. Thanks

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IBS-C Gas and constant Bloating

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