The Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Self Help and Support Group community strives to provide dependable irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) support, education and treatment for sufferers, family and friends. We have been doing this since 1987. We are an IBS community providing characteristics for diagnosis of symptoms and treatment, forums and chat rooms to talk about ibs, blogs, resource links, brochures, medical tests, book list, penpals, meetings, research studies and a list of medications.