Hello and Welcome! Sorry to hear your colonoscopy was so awful. There isn't a test that will definitively tell you if you have IBS or not. It is a diagnoses of exclusion. Meaning they have tested for everything else and everything is negative. It would be a lot easier if there was a blood test or some other relatively easy test to say for sure if you have ibs but unfortunately, there just isn't!
Check out the eating for IBS section and you will find lots of advice on how to manage IBS. The living room section here is mainly used for non-ibs chit chat.
-------------------- Taking it one day at a time.....
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There isn't a test that will definitively tell you if you have IBS or not. It is a diagnoses of exclusion. Meaning they have tested for everything else and everything is negative. It would be a lot easier if there was a blood test or some other relatively easy test to say for sure if you have ibs but unfortunately, there just isn't!
