Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Uh Has Anybody Here Actually Recovered From IBS Or Is This Just a Myth?

BULL! BULL! BULL!
Do you know what a pain in the butt IBS is, has been, and continues to be?
I'm 26 years old, but I act like I am a senior citizen with all my dietary restrictions, potions, pills, and other guidelines.

I spend 5 hours a week in the gym working out, and yet despite becoming a social hermit, my IBS continues to wreak havoc on my body.

There are days were I am so bloated and distended, I look like a complete lardbutt who does nothing but drink and eat fastfood.

Yea I came to this site believing if I applied my determination I'd succeed, instead as I have been taking that IBS Survey advertised here, I realize how little progress I've made, how IBS continues to be a central theme clouding me everyday.

I see other guys my age, and they all look cut and trim. Then there is me, who doesn't drink, who diets and works hard, and what do I have to show?
I'm all work and no play...where Heather...who besides "Heather" has actually gotten stable and their life under control?

I
1) Bought YOUR books
2) Read YOUR books FOUR Years ago
3) Have tried various probiotics (Align/VSL 3/jarrowdophillus)
4) Tried various solubale fiber supplements (including your Acadia which did nothing...I now take benefiber)
5) I do not have any
redmeat, food with more than 25% calories from fat,
no whole grains, as little as possible AIs, no dairy,
no alcohol (which has destroyed my ability to freely socialize and unwind)
6) I am in psychotherapy
7) I've tried various GI and psychiatric meds

The result is in NOTHING WORKS...sure I might get SOME relief..SOME..OCCASIONAL relief, never any sustainable net improvements.

It feels like ALL the time/money and energy spent has been a waste.

I'm 26 years old, I'm resided to looking like a skinny fat kid because of IBS and having to live like I am in a test tube, except I do not have the excuse of saying I have cancer.
I wish I did have cancer, I wish I did, because it sure beats having IBS.
At least with cancer you get empathy and people understand why you are sluggish, wobbly, have a fat belly, but with IBS you're just a perfectly normal person who has no good excuse.

Worse...because of IBS I can not get my chronic muscle pain in my chest (costchondtris) treated BECAUSE NO pill besides an anti-inflamatroy exists.
IBS is interefering with my ability to get treated for other problems.
You know what I haven't tried?
I haven't tried

1) Peppermint pills
2) Yoga
3) Hypno
4) Acupuncture

You know why? BECAUSE WHY IS IT WORTHWHILE?
To me...this sounds like a RACKET.
A clueless racket...try this...try that...NOBODY has any clue or any idea on how to treat.
You have made me a 26 year old lamo with no social life and an unattractive body...I came here to get help...what difference does it make?

I ask, WHO HAS ACTUALLY stabilized from anything on here?
I am sick of bloating and distenstion.
Sure...I can try Yoga/hypno/acupuncture/peppermint...but I don't feel that the results of all the time, effort, and money spent so far warrant it.

I feel it will be a waste of time and energy, this is just more of a racket to sell an illusion.

So after 5 years of all the soluable fiber potions, probiotics, socially restrictive dietary modifications, HOW CAN YOU DARE TO CLAIM WITH IBS YOU CAN LEAVE A NORMAL, HAPPY LIFE?

I bought your book...WHERE ARE MY RESULTS?
IT HAS BEEN FIVE YEARS!!!

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IBS-C and Bloating

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