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Anything is an option at this point. All websites will help. My daughter suffers daily and has for almost two years now. Going into her senior year in high school, it has dominated her life and has become the big elephant in the room of stress for the whole family. We can't even encourage her to eat out as a family...she is miserable and we are too because we can't seem to do anything for her. We feel helpless. She is seeing a psychologist for stress management per her doctor. She takes nexium once a day. Being a teenager and an honor student, she is always stressed but her IBS is ruining what should be the best years of her life. And she will leave for college in the future...what then? We are currently seeking a second opinion because things seem to be getting worse. We cannot pinpoint certain foods that set her off. Her diet is horrible because we feed her what she can tolerate at that specific moment. She is a whopping 94 pounds and we are just overwhelmed and worried. She had an upper GI and a colonoscopy almost two years ago for this diagnosis. I am currently trying to get her to a second doctor for a second opinion. Like others with this illness, she battles loose bowels one day and constipation the next...suffers trough periods and is exhausted all the time and has absolutely no energy at times. She has some good days but very few. The anxiety gets overwhelming when she does activities out of fear that her stomach will react...
please give us some insight on this...it is ruining our household and we can't stand to see what it is doing to our precious daughter! Could she be misdiagnosed? Bloodwork always comes back normal...Any suggestions?

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