A friend of mine has been in extremely poor health for a few years, in and out of hospitals and had various parts removed and so on. She finally went off her birth control pills and her symptoms completely cleared up. She wrote to all the doctors who had misdiagnosed her and done surgeries for no reason.
So I got to thinking that I would go off them and see if my IBS symptoms and general malaise would improve. I stopped taking them about 2 weeks ago. 1 week ago my symptoms improved dramtically! I haven't had any real issues with bloating, tiredness and feeling yucky for a week. (ate too much fat Wednesday night after a bad day and got some light D though). It is almost too good to be true and I don't know which way I really want this test to go since I absolutely do not want children, I am afraid to use other birth control. I haven't even told my husband about it yet because I wanted to see for sure what the results will be. He has been remarking about how good I have felt all week! So I will add to this in another week and see what happens. I just couldn't keep it to myself any longer. 
BTW My IBS symptoms and BC pill started around the same time. I had a few episodes of D in my youth and relentless C but I figured the D was food poisoning back then, until I got so bad with bloating and pain, etc after I got married.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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