Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Please help me...I am so confused

I have no idea how to find my way on this web forum thing. I just know I really need to talk to someone out there. I am so confused right now. I was told after having tests done that I have IBS, but I am not really sure they diagnosed me correctly. I keep reading and reading about it and I just don't know. I am in so much pain, and this has been ongoing since October '11. There is not any relief or very little relief from b.m., that is one reason I am questioning the IBS. I guess if I have to describe which IBS I have it would be the IBS-A but that is just a guess on my part because the dr never said. From what I have read, constipation is not being able to go for three or more days and diarrhea is loose watery stool. I am having trouble with not being able to go at all "one" day, (its never gone into three days) with severe cramping all day and night and it usually lasts into part of the next day, then the next day onces the bowels do start to move then I will start having frequency maybe going between 6-10 times in one day sometimes, but the bowels are not watery, the first one is usually a formed stool, but then by the third and beyond its usually just soft stools, there again, with the cramping still. This is not always how it is, sometimes I will have formed stools all day, they are not really hard to get out, just painful inside me. I cry when I go to the bathroom. I cry when I am done too. The is just that unbearable. No relief from the cramping whether I go or not. Sometimes the cramping isn't quite as severe as other times, but it really doesn't coincide with the bowel movement very much. Drinking water or eating food makes the cramping usually worse almost immediatley. Its like I can almost feel the food being digested. I am on a strict diet because in Nov. '11 I was diagnosed with IC, and then in Jan of this year I was diagnosed with gastritis and gallstones and so I made more changes to my diet. Then at the end of Feb, I had the colonoscopy done and they said I had the IBS, so I adjusted my diet even more. I am not eating dairy, soy, trying to avoid gluten and of course I am watching the soluble an insoluble fiber intake and how I am eating it. The dr gave me a prescription for Hyoscyamine and it did not give me any relief so he had me try taking Prednisone with it, which also didn't give me any relief, and caused me to have more frequency and urgency with my bladder and the flairs to come back. I am trying really hard to follow the diets and do all I can to get better, but I just am not feeling any better at all. I have lost more weight, I was 92 and now I am 75. I can't sleep at night. I am waking up all the time. As soon as my eyes open I feel the cramping so I don't know if the cramping is what is keeping me awake or not. This week I started having another problem at night, twice now I woke up feeling really hot. I pulled the covers off and I was then immediatly freezing cold. It was like I had a fever. I wasn't sweating. It was like I was sick or something. I just want some relief. I want to be normal. I know things will never be like they were before, but if I could just get out of pain then maybe I could face each day a little easier. I hate to even get out of bed each day. If this is what my life is going to be like forever, well... I don't know how much longer I can do it.

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