As far as the urgency, I think it is both what you said...physical urgency on one hand but exacerbated by the fact that there is no toilet around. Sometimes I am freaked out like that and then once the stressful thing passes, I miraculously feel okay enough to wait to find a restroom. The goal for me after finding this website is to get to a point physically where I feel comfortable enough to not think of my IBS so often, thereby triggering an attack in my own brain (and maybe with a little help from a food I ate). Being a mom of young children is torturous though...I totally hear you...I am already stressed out that my husband can not make my son's soccer games for the next three Sundays!!! I plan to eat safely the day before, take immodium the night before, and probably immodium the next morning which will throw my system all off balance but it's the only way I'll be able to cope. It seems so ridiculous too b/c it is just an hour long out of my whole weekend and I am obsessing over it. Afterwards, I'll be starving...I used to go right to Dunkin Donuts and get a coffee and a donut!! Can't do that anymore though...I realize now it's just a vicious cycle and like all diets, I guess we have to be pretty strict all the time if we want to get stable. I find myself taking immodium less often now that I am taking the acacia and following Heather's diet, but I am still too scared. Are you new or do you take a SF supplement and follow the diet? I'm about a month or so new to this site and am feeling some relief already. I know you probably feel terrible about the things that you miss with your son...I completely understand and often feel guilty that I don't do more adventurous things with my kids (you will never catch me out camping!!!!  ) and it stinks b/c that's something fun I'd really like to experience with them. Maybe one day...for both of us....hang in there!! 
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