The IBS sucks, I know that nightmare! There is a drug available now called NuLev (name brand works, generic doesn't for me) that makes the IBS bearable.

As for the UTI's I'm sure you know it, but you can't mess around with them, your kidney's are such fragile organs! You have to be more careful as you get older too! I have to go in immediately now. I used to have two or three days to get in to the doctor from the first symptoms, the last TWO times, symptoms start on Friday and I'm not willing to go to the ER, but by Monday the infection has already spread to my kidneys. Next time it's to the ER, can't keep damaging my kidneys in that way.