Patients with IBS can often have a number of other functional disorders such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and/or depression. Fibromyalgia is a disorder where patients develop pain throughout different parts of their body, so it’s really important to address the whole patient when managing IBS because a lot of those other associated conditions can have an impact on the symptomatology of IBS.

Are there conditions similar to IBS?

Can IBS be misdiagnosed?