Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | ARGH!!!! Someone, please help me (I posted this in Living Room, too)

I am so frustrated. I have posted about my symptoms before, but I want to know if anyone can relate to me or help me or give me some advice. I am beginning to wonder if I have endometriosis. (did I spell that right?) I have always had on and off left-side discomfort. I'm on my period now (sorry guys) and my lower left back has a dull ache all the way around to the front to my navel. But here's the thing...I am mostly a gassy girl with left problems but no bad stool, no bad doctor's reports, no other physical symptoms. Do you think I could just have a spazzy colon? Seriously. Here and there I get constipated or have diarrhea, depending on my nerves and situations in life. But why is my left side the irritated one? And that's where the gas is always trapped, too. I have excellent health, otherwise. ARGH!!!!! I do have a desk job and spend a lot of time writing as a freelancer, so maybe that counts for back pain, but why is my left side abdomen so annoying! And the thing is...it's never a constant. It comes and goes. Can anyone relate to this? Am I just thinking about it too much?!? And why do I sometimes feel like I have a big, sore gassy knot next to my navel? (to the left) ACK! How can someone who is almost always healthy have gassy issues and sore tummy issues? Like I said...it comes and goes. And has done so for like...ten years. UGH!!!!!

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