Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Semi IBS question - but guessing people on here will know. RE diagnostic tests

My boyfriend has been poorly, with similar symptoms to IBS-D, but a couple of times he has had 'accidents' in his pants with no prior warnings - severe D without even realising he was going to do it. He's obviously really worried.

He had an endoscopy 3 weeks ago, and blood and biopsies were taken. He's just seen his consultant with the results, who said all tests clear (not an infection, etc, not coeliac disease), but he's confused. He says he's sure it's not IBS, he's consulted with 5 other consultants and not one of them has had a patient who suffered from IBS in isolation that had sudden, unpredicted bowel incontinence.

So... He has a barium meal next week, a barium enema the week after (lovely

) but then, a week after that, he has another test that the doc didn't give him the name for. He said it's to investigate the possibility of a gallbladder that isn't working properly, called it some kind of 'bile acid test', and said it's really, really unplesant.

He'd obviously like to look up what the test is, but without a name it's difficult!

I was just wondering if anyone had had a test that sounded like this, and if so what it involves?

Any advice much appreciated, as my boyfriend is really quite wound up and worried at the moment, both about the diagnosis and the test/s...

Thanks all

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