I don't know which "dominance" I have. My GI doctor didn't go into details (she was surprisingly vague considering she's s GI specialist, works with 5 other GI specialists, and you would think IBS is by far the #1 most common GI upset.).
However, maybe you can help. My confusion stems from the fact that over the past 5 weeks, I have suffered from all the typical symptoms in some amount or other, and some that aren't even on the list.
It all started with D, but it was more like a one second I'm fine and then I hear a rumble in my stomach, have urgency, and must make it to the bathroom in a few minutes D. This happened to me in the past maybe 3/4 times a year and I was always fine and normal after I got it out. I always thought it was food based, gastroenteritis. Never would I have, say, two D in the same day. So this time, I expected the same, and indeed it did get better that weekend (after the D, which was on a Thurs) and my food intake that weekend was particularly red meat and fat laden (went home to see the folks!). Starting the next week, I had very light D on the Tuesday, but less than 1/4 the amount as usual, very light. Most of my symptoms at that time were mental (fear, anxiety, flushing, cold sweats). From then on til now I have alternated between feelings of pain and discomfort (along with weird related things like waking up with the shakes, dizziness, nausea, etc., though all these supplemental things have been gone for two weeks now) but normal bowel function to short periods (1-2 day max) of C. Urgency was also probably my biggest complaint during that time, but in the past two weeks it also has gone away. My only symptoms these days is a sense of fullness every time I eat (may just be that I am increasing SF or that my stomach has shrunk) and maybe a light pain after I eat which I described in an earlier post as simply feeling the food is passing through me in a non-smooth way. I began following Heather's diet (not entirely strictly, but close enough - no triggers) a little less than a week ago, have been taking Align for a little over a week, and have been taking fiber supplements (mix of Metamucil and just started taking an SF only in addition today - I like to get some IF because every nutritionist in the world says it is healthy) for about two weeks. Any of those things (and I suspect, a combination of all of them) could have been responsible for my improvement.
So, based on that exhaustive history, Syl, what subtype would you estimate I have? Also, I saw the list of things IBS symptoms could be, but when you rule out everything that can be determined from blood and stool work, what specifically is left that can only be diagnosed by a colonoscopy?
Thanks Syl and everyone else for the food critique. I'm ditching the Larabars and the OJ. I guess, since I am a young (ish  ) man, I have different priorities than many on this site who it sounds like focus on weight maintenance and aerobic exercise. I'd like to build muscle and along with resistance training the main way to do that nutritionally was through whey protein supplements (shakes and bars). Soy is a poor substitute but I guess I need to work within my constraints.
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