Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | high school/college students ???

hey all,

up until i found this site a year or so ago, i naturally knew other people had IBS (as per the statistics), but i did not know of any of those people. i still do not personally know anybody with IBS that i am able to talk to about it regularly. i am 20 years old and in college. it is incredibly awkward. i am sure that everybody here has felt uncomfortable because of our condition, but being in college (dorms, roommates, dining halls, shared bathrooms, parties and drinking, etc. etc.) adds a whole other dimension to this condition. it gets increasingly harder and harder to explain why i can't eat what everybody around me eats, why i can't drink alcohol when everybody at college seems to, and so on and so forth. any other high school/college students out there who can identify?

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21, female, Long Island, NY
school in Kingston, RI

IBS-C, abdominal pain, gas, bloating, cramping; acid reflux; fibromyalgia; chronic fatigue syndrome; chronic headaches

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