I understand your 'pain', believe me. I have had stomach problems on and off all my life, but it never actually changed my life until a year ago. We loved to eat out at restaurants and I LOVED big breakfasts when we were on a trip somewhere. But when my world caved in about a year ago with the IBS, my whole life changed. My problems are within the first 2 hrs each morning if I'm going to have them, so I can't plan on early morning activities; my hubby and I postponed our yearly trip that we do each spring for our anniversary, because I was too scared to leave home. My diet has changed drastically. I have lost 10 lbs in the last year. Sweets were my downfall and I just plain loved to eat. Now it's lots of bread, chicken, turkey and bananas and oatmeal.. I still do regular yogurt every day which actually seems to calm my tummy. But I have not been able to stabilize the attacks yet, so I continue to work at it and may have to give up dairy again to see if that helps. At any rate, it definitely does get discouraging when I think of all the things I no longer can eat. But then I try to focus on what I am able to do and what I do have to be thankful to God for and realize that there are so many people in this world worse off than me, and so I ask God for strength with my problems and thank Him that I am still kicking 
God Speed and HANG IN THERE!
Janene
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