ANXIETY AND RUNNING TO POO- IBD OR IBS or both

I have always had to run to the washroom if I get that anxious, scared, nervous, etc..feeling. Sometimes it happens 2-5 times just from one though or episode.

I am wondering whether its possible that I have IBS as well. For those of you who have both, how did you know? what were your symptoms before your dx with UC and how do you know what symptoms are IBS and what is UC?

I will need to run to the bathroom if I'm stressed, or excited, whether I'm flaring or not. My old GI, whose patient I was for 22 years, thought I had "a touch of IBS"...but since there are not physical changes with IBS as with IBD (I believe) they can't biopsy for it.

My husband has teased me for years that when we start to talk about where to go on summer vacation I'll need to get up and run for the bathroom! lol

So - it's not Big Time Anxiety, but that sudden jolt of adrenaline, fight-or-flight excitement reaction that sends me to the bathroom.

For me, I don't have urgency, blood, or mucus when I have IBS, just diarrhea, bloating, and gas.

No, the treatment is not the same, because IBS is considered a "functional disorder" if I'm not wrong, and there's no inflammation to try to calm down. Most of our meds try to calm down inflammation, the steroids, 5_ASAa, etc. And there are no auto-immune tissue problems, so not need to immunomodulators.
I think (my sister-in law has it) it's mostly treated through diet, behavior modification (re the anxiety reaction) maybe anti-anxiety meds...?

I'm heading towards remission after close to a year flare,i didn't have the 20 to 30 bms a month flare,but more like 10 to 15 times when i was flaring at my worst.Now that i'm getting to the point of remission, in my mind i can eat more, go out without all the anxiety[NOT ALWAYS] etc.Well last Monday i had to take my son to baseball practice[from garden city New York-to Farmingdale n.y] AT 7pm,we left a little before 6 because So.State Parkway usually has rush hour traffic and it did.I'm about half way there,getting a slight urge,can i hold it in til we get there?But i usually get the ANXIETY feeling before i get the urge to go,i also put some ANXIETY in my own head by panicing that maybe i will have an urge to go when i actually don't have to go.So sometimes i just pull over to Burger King and i have only gas.Well i have had 3 prior accidents[last spring] so Monday it felt like it could be more than gas so i pulled over on the parkway and hid behind some bushes and yes i had to go,thank god we have tissues in the car.A very humbling disease[thank god it was dark already],so i realize that i'm not quite able to hold it in even though my stool is 95% to 99% normal,now i had eaten too much in the prior 24 to 36 hours before taking this trip-BAD MOVE.Yesterday we took the same trip[ATE MUCH LIGHTER],stopped once at Blimpies to use the boys room-nothing[it at least cleared the anxiety out of my head].Ihave not gone since,this disease can do a number on our thinking.Im working with a psychiatrist to find the best anti-anxiety for me,is there an anti-anxiety med that can take that terrible anxiety from us?Is this anxiety part of U.C OR SOMETHING ELSE.I see my gastro this week so i'll run it by him,any help from you all out there is appreciated .THANKS and GOOD LUCK