Everybody has IBS...except me??

My other half has been diagnosed with it and tbh, it's been a cluster**** of an experience. Over the past 18 months, she's had bloods done that were allegedly also a proper Coeliac test (bull****, it requires a biopsy and should have been done as the disease runs in her family) and a colonoscopy which came back clear. We had to change GP's because the bitch she was dealing with in the first place was trying to tell her that her continuing digestive problems were a "new issue" each time and, as such, she needed to visit (and pay) her repeatedly instead of just doing her job and referring her for all the necessary tests i.e. she was just trying to milk more cash out of a patient rather than help them.

The new GP diagnosed IBS (without any further tests) in order to be able to prescribe her with Colefac which has helped reduce the pain of the spasms etc but isn't preventing them so, while I appreciate his efforts to alleviate her suffering, it's driving me nuts because any idiot knows what's needed next: the rest of the tests that one is supposed to have finished before IBS can be "diagnosed". It irritates me that IBS is even considered to be a "diagnosis" since all it means is that they haven't a ****ing clue what's wrong with the patient but have exhausted all the tests that identify the gastric complaints they do understand.

It maddens me that my wife is suffering because we can't afford to book her into somewhere private for a week and the Irish Health System doesn't seem even remotely interested in performing it's duties. In my experience, people do seem to be experiencing more gastro-intestinal problems than ever before so either we completely under-reported them in the past or dietary/environmental changes are causing them.

For what it's worth, in our case, we eat far healtheir now than we would have before this became a problem: far more meals made from scratch and next to nothing processed.