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Do Your Hormones Affect IBS?

Because these hormones rise and fall throughout the month, it makes sense that they can affect IBS symptoms. As hormone levels fall to the lowest p...

What Does a Gastroenterologist Do?

You would also see a gastroenterologist to get a screening colonoscopy or other tests that look inside any part of your gastrointestinal tract.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Symptoms

Doctors can determine whether your symptoms are IBS or signs of another problem. Your doctor may ask you to keep an IBS symptom journal. The standa...

Low-FODMAP Diet

A low-FODMAP diet is designed to help people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have better control over their symptoms by limiting certain foods....

Overview

IBS is a mix of belly discomfort or pain and trouble with bowel habits: either going more or less often than normal (diarrhea or constipation) or h...

What is IBS-D?

IBS that causes increased diarrhea is often called IBS-D. There isn’t a test that tells you if you have IBS-D (or any kind of IBS). Instead, your d...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

IBS isn’t life-threatening, and it doesn't make you more likely to get other colon conditions, such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, or colo...