Do I have IBS?

I am a 17 year old male.  I like to think of myself as healthy because I drink a lot of water and don't eat unhealthy foods (yet I don't exercise regularly, I only walk around 3-5 km a day).  I am 6 feet 1 inches tall and weigh around 170 pounds.  Anyway, i can recall symptoms of IBS since about a year ago.  I feel like I am constantly constipated.  I usually have a bowel movement 2-3 times a week.  The BM itself is about 4-5 inches long and appears normal (although sometimes it has small amounts of mucus in it).  I usually pass two of these each time I have a BM.  Aside from that, I usually get diarrhea a few times a month.  This isn't severe and usually lasts a day.  Following diarrhea I have constipation for the next few days.  I also have mild abdominal pain sometimes near my bellybutton (primarily to the lower right  of it).  I will also get a pulsing sensation in my lower left abdomen.  This is rare but when it occurs it lasts for 20 or so minutes before subsiding and restarting again later. It does this for a few hours.  Eating and exercising seem to trigger this.  It doesn't hurt and the area isnt tender or painful when I touch the pulsing area.  Same goes for the pain near my navel.  I haven't sought treatment yet mainly because the symptoms have not been painful.  They are mainly a nuisance.  

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