This makes it look like IBS is more a symptom for a host of related diseases rather than a disease on its own. Which is the tricky thing about diagnosis that a

This makes it look like IBS is more a symptom for a host of related diseases rather than a disease on its own. Which is the tricky thing about diagnosis that a lot of people don't really get. Symptoms are sexy, symptoms get the headlines, symptoms get treated. But sometimes multiple diseases present with similar symptoms. And for all we know about medicine and the human body, there is still a lot we are unsure about. So a lot of the time, symptoms are all we have to go on. And it sucks for you while we're figuring it all out, and I do sympathize, but I can't help but be fascinated by medicine and biology when I run into these situations.