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Thank you for the reassurances. Sorry I'm so nervous (though I guess my screen name here says it all)! :)

Yep. Psychologists will send you barking up the wrong tree every time. There's no one in my town on the doctor listing on this site and I couldn't get in touch with the surgeon today to get his recommendation. I'll try again tomorrow I guess. One more question though--I am EXTREMELY afraid...

Thanks again all! I've seen this happen to soo many people in my life it's ridiculous. Like a friend of mine who had bad headaches and was sent to therapy to work out her "stress issues," then later found out nope not stress it was a brain tumor. Another friend who had "psychosomatic" pain due...

(that was years ago of course and I plan to be more assertive this time I go in--don't want to go through another round of this nonsense with the next doctor!)

Ugh. Ok--one more thing that's making me mad. When I first went to the doctor for this stuff, he tested my blood and liver enzymes and apparently I had high bilirubin levels. He said oh that's just Gilbert's syndrome (a benign condition where you get jaundice occasionally because of high...

Thanks. It IS tempting to just stop eating but I know it's not healthy. Especially during the flu season. I've tried elimination diets in the past and still am not consuming any of the major allergens. It does seem like the whole "eat more fiber" bit that doctors tell IBS patients was horrible...

Thanks kh216. The surgeon who took my appendix gave me the name of a good gastroenterologist in town, so I'll call him this week. Thanks all again and I'm sorry for taking up so much space. Yeah, the weight loss thing is funny--until you're grossly underweight (and sometimes even then), people...

Thank you all so much. The idea of printing this out to take the doctor is excellent. I get so flustered in person and it's hard talking about this stuff anywhere except in the anonymous faceless forum of the internet. My boss told me three years ago to get checked for Crohn's when she found me...

Thank you for your thoughtful and generous response. I know I'm a jerk for posting on this forum when I don't have a diagnosis and haven't even started down the path. Reading what most of you have been through I feel like an idiot for worrying about my own guts. On the other hand, I hear stories...

Thank you!! Thank you. And because my family thinks it's in my head (my employers don't--they know!) it just makes it so much worse. My sister forced me to go to therapy because she thought I had agoraphobia (it's really not that simple). I told her why and she said it was just anxiety. So I did...

I hope this doesn't offend anyone--I'm in my mid twenties and I'm one of those people who was diagnosed with IBS ten years ago. I cut out gluten, grains, dairy, did crazy elimination diets, took herbs, drank peppermint tea, did yoga, avoided stress, basically did everything right. At the same...