Hi- I posted back on 4/7 but no one has answered and I can really use some help. I am new to the board and may have missed a response but I don't think so. Still trying to navigate this board.
I have been through double tests at my gyno, and been through one gastro doctor and now on a new gastro doctor. I have gotten a basic diagnosis that I have mild-moderate IBS, and thank goodness, I seem to have a milder version than what I see many people writing in have. I consider myself lucky in that regard. I am prone to diarreah, not consitpation but my biggest and most debilitating problem is with excess gas. It is ruining my life! I can write a book on things I have tried and how hard I have been trying to get ready for an upcoming new chapter in my life. I'll be going back to school in a couple of weeks and I am DESPERATE to talk to someone who can just help me get through 5 hours in the morning without the pain of having to hold in excess gas until I can possibly get up from my seat to go to the bathroom. I have been getting up at 5:15 each morning to be able to get on a schedule for school. My first issue is, I take a thyroid medication that has to be taken on an empty stomach- so at about 5:30am, I take that. Then I have to wait at least one hour before taking any food. So at about 6:30am-7am, I take 1/2 tsp Acacia, mixed with some oatmeal or rice squares cereal and a very small amt of rice milk, just to mix the Acacia in. I get up so early because I want to try and have a bowel mvmt before I have to leave for school or I will try to run into a fast food place if I am on my way to school to try and poop. If I don't poop before school, I may have that buildup of feeling like having to go and then I will have to leave class and stink up only one of two small bathrooms in the entire facility. Not only that but almost every thing I eat, almost EVERYTHING, gives me gas to some extent or another and ranges from mild to VERY, VERY bad. I know my basic trigger foods and will totally stay away from anything like that. I just need to eat something or get a prescription med that helps with gas ( Beano . . . not always effective and I would have to take it constantly) Also carry Gas-X (xtra strength) with me at all times ( does this really work?)
I want to try and eat healthy so I can keep up my immune system while in school, which will run 5 days a week, 5 hrs a day for the next 4 months. I eat like a bird now and will have to eat like a bird for all breakfasts and dinners and maybe sneak in just a few veggies for lunch- and the reason is that what I eat for dinners often affects me (gas) the next morning. I could write in more detail but I know this is sooooo long already. If anyone else out there has trouble with excess gas with almost everything they eat, please write me back. I need to get through school without embarrasing myself as "the girl who farts all the time!"
Thanks and if Heather is reading this, I would welcome your help!!!!! 
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