IBS is often a diagnosis of exclusion. Your scopes and scans came back clear, which is genuinely good news, and you were sent home with fiber advice and a label. But the bloating, cramping, urgency, or constipation are still running your schedule. You're not looking for another "everything's normal." You want to know what's driving it.

That's my work. I use functional testing and a step-by-step plan to look at how your gut is actually functioning, and I do it with Dallas patients by video.

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What Your Conventional Workup May Not Have Covered

A clear colonoscopy rules out important things. It doesn't usually tell you about:

The balance of bacteria, yeast, and parasites in your gut
How well you're digesting fat and protein
Markers of gut-lining stress and immune activity
How stress, sleep, and meal patterns are affecting motility
Food reactions that changed over time

A comprehensive stool test like the GI-MAP fills in many of those blanks. You collect it at home in Dallas and mail it back.

Your Gut Type Shapes the Plan

If your days look like…	We often focus on…
Bloated by afternoon, fine in the morning	Digestion, meal size and timing, possible overgrowth
Constipation most days	Fiber type, hydration, magnesium, motility, stress
Urgency or loose stools	Irritants, infections or parasites on testing, gut-lining support
Alternating between both	Stress and nervous-system patterns plus the stool picture
Reactions to more and more foods	Gut lining and immune balance, then a careful reintroduction

How a Plan Unfolds

Weeks 1–2: Free call, one-hour video consultation, and a stool kit sent to your home. Blood work, if needed, is drawn at a lab near you.
Weeks 3–4: We go over your results together, and you get a plan with food changes you can live with, targeted supplements, and nervous-system practices for the gut–brain connection.
Following months: Check-ins, adjustments, and retesting when it will change what we do.

A Patient's Words

"I started seeing Dr. Wards after struggling for years with digestive issues and finding zero success with various medications and gastroenterologists... it's made a world of difference in my quality of life." Tara, from our patient success stories

IBS Questions From Dallas Patients

Can I get a GI-MAP or gut microbiome test in Dallas without visiting a clinic? Yes. The kit ships to your home, you collect the sample yourself, and we review the results together by video.

Should I see a gastroenterologist first? If you have red-flag symptoms like blood in your stool, unintended weight loss, anemia, nighttime symptoms that wake you, or a family history of colon cancer, yes, see a GI doctor first. My work fits best once serious conditions have been ruled out.

Do you work with SIBO? Yes. I offer SIBO testing with the GI-MAP stool test, and I suggest it when bloating soon after meals or your history points to overgrowth in the small intestine. We'll decide together whether it, a GI-MAP, or both make sense for you.

Will I have to give up all my favorite foods? No. Any eliminations are targeted and temporary, and the goal is a wider menu, not a shrinking one.

Is your clinic in Dallas? Our clinic is at 304 N College St in Waxahachie, about 30 miles south of downtown Dallas. Most Dallas patients choose telehealth.