Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about living with irritable bowel syndrome.

Ask: Ask for a two week trial of sulfasalazine.Taken two per day, it gets rid of mild bowel inflammation!

Ignore: Ask your Dr. what the best diet is for IBS, and how you can decrease stress in your life.

Ignore: Ask about probiotics, including eating fermented foods or drinking fermented drinks.

Should: Should I be eating smaller portions of food at meal time to avoid symptoms of IBS?

Ask: Ask any questions you may have about the disorder, no matter how embarrassing it might be.

Ask: Ask your doctor if s/he knows of any IBS support groups.

Can: Can my chronic fatigue also be related to food hypersensitivities?

When: When can I add the foods I was sensitive to back into my diet?

Are: Are all probiotics the same, or which one should I be taking for my condition to improve it?

Can: Can I take a test that will tell me what I'm allergic or sensitive to that's accurate?

What: What can I do to make my IBS symptoms go away? I hate being constipated all the time!

Can: Can these food hypersensitivities be passed on to my kids, or it's just we all eat the same foods?

Does: Does everyone in my family have to be tested if we all have similar GI complaints and symptoms?

Is: Is it normal to have cross sensitivity to gluten and dairy, if I have IBS?

Can: Can I have cheese or butter, but not milk, or is all dairy not good for my gut sensitivity?

Can: Can I grow out of this, or will this be permanent?