it is awfully embarrasing at work isn't it!! It was only after I started working in a small lab with 8 others that I was forced to do something about my IBS (until then I'd been working outdoors for quite a while). It is so much better now!! With me the food always won in the food vs bloating debate (bloating makes me depressed and I eat when I'm depressed....it's hard to win isn't it )