Hey, thanks for your reply, I have the painful and bloated type IBS which is so frustrating as never know what day your gonna get, just like life being a box of chocolates! lol I will get some of alow vera again I tried it for a few months and also tried Kefir for over a year every day, nothing really made a difference, eat no bread really at all, I eat well but only proper food not processed at all so hard to find the cause, wish I could, I've even done a bentonite detox for a month at a time just in case it was some sort of bacteria/parasite in the gut - but still have this nuisance thing 5 years on. grrrrr ;) maybe one day it'll go as quick as it came. :)