Hi,
Yes, still after 13 years of it. The major problem is it is not a disease but a diagnosis given when they run out of names and diseases to label you with. It affects people in many different ways so is hard to give an exact remedy.
The basics are to start the Fodmap plan and note what is OK for you and what is not. Not always successful for everyone! Eventually you will come to recognise the foods you are OK with and the ones you are not.
I survive on very little and mostly food I'm not supposed to be able to eat with IBS, but it works for me confounding my Gastrologist. His attitude is now, if it works for me do it. You can go through times of extreme flare ups to times when you may be reasonably comfortable on a restricted diet. Too many tastes of the "forbiden" fruits can cause havock with the gut. There are loads of theories, heaps of anecdotal evidence and some scientific based facts around IBS. You just have to find your own way through. The help of a good dietitian is a worth while choice to get you started.
Through your journey you will learn about pre and pro biotics and the sceptisism that goes with them. I have tried them and had both good and no results from taking a course of them. Not all probiotics are created equal nor are they all stored the way they should be which means you could be buying dead cultures.
There are times you will be driven to the ragged edge and times you find some success, all you can do is to keep trying. It helped me by remembering that the food we injest is digested and feed to through out the body. The neutriants digested and feed to the body make up what we are, why would you feed it the rubbish you can no longer tolerate!
Dosen't stop me trying though and as usual I suffer the bad flare ups yet again! They are becomming fewer as the brain recognises the discomfort is not worth the pleasure and the lusting subsides. I look at my food as a life line not a pleasure.
Cheers