That's what we're all here for. 
First off, your questions from yesterday are still around - these boards get REALLY busy and most likely, it's just scrolled back a few pages. The easiest way to be able to find your posts in the future is to "bookmark" them - when you scroll down past the post, you'll see a little link on the bottom, on the left-ish side, that says "Add this thread to favorites" or something like that. Click that. To see your favorites, go up to your "My Home" (the link is near the top of the page) and it'll be in there.
Also in "My Home", you can set your board preferences... if you're only logging in once a day, you might want to set your display preferences to show more discussions (threads) at a time. I think the default is something low like 25. Setting it higher will put more new posts on one page, which is a little easier to navigate.
New mantra to remember: Doctors do not know everything!! If you look around the boards, you'll find people who got IBS in their 20s, but you'll also find a lot who got it much later in life than that, and many who have it since childhood. It's a very individual thing, and doctors who make generalizations like that are silly.
It's not contagious. Nor is it hereditary, as far as I know. I'm the only person in my family who has IBS, although I'm not the only one who has digestive problems (my father had ulcers and diverticulitis, my grandmother had a fistula).
It *can* be caused by what Heather calls a "trauma to the gut", and surgery could definitely count as trauma. This is NOT to say that the surgery wasn't done properly, or anything like that... it's just possible that that was enough of a jolt to your gut to start the whole IBS problem.
IBS really doesn't go away or get better with age. I've had periods of "remission" that sometimes even last a few years, where I feel perfectly fine and have no problems, but then the IBS comes back, and it's usually even worse than it was before (depending on how I've been eating in the meantime!). I've been like this since I was a kid, and I'll be like this till the day I die, and I've accepted that. It could be worse!!
Welcome to the boards, by the way!
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