It's a random thing - one day I can be very well like today; the next I could have problems in spite of my best efforts to check what I eat. Anxiety makes it bad as well.

I wish people would know how I feel. I don't like to carry a 2nd pair of clothes around with me.

I wish people would not just dismiss it, it's bad enough having it day in day out. Everyone just says are you better yet? It's like I was yesterday but not today! I know if one of my friends or family had an illness, I would research it and try to understand to help them out!

That IBS was better understood by the general public. If I tell people that my daughter has IBS I feel it is dismissed as something minor. She also has come across this attitude. She has to severely restrict her diet to minimise symptoms and tells people she has a 'bowel condition' as they seem to be more understanding and less dismissive when explained this way.

I wish people would understand
....how sudden symptom's can come on.
....the need to be near a toilet at all times
....the embarrassed factor
....how stress and anxiety are major triggers
....the struggles with social events