IBS Tales

Cybill Shepherd has done a wonderful thing – owned up to having IBS, and even specified her symptoms – constipation, abdominal pain and bloating. This is doubly wonderful because she’s not exactly the person most of us would associate with gut trouble, and by speaking out she has shown that anyone can get IBS, even [...]

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IBS sufferers often have to wait weeks, months or even years before they are given a diagnosis of IBS – and even then they may end up with the wrong name for their condition. This is due to a number of factors, not least the fact that there is no specific test for IBS. More [...]

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Heather Van Vorous is pretty unique within the IBS world. The best description of her is a ‘patient expert’, someone who not only has sufferered with IBS for many years but who has also devised a whole diet-based treatment programme to help thousands of other sufferers. Firstly, let me say that I have never tried [...]

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After two good weeks of health I woke up today and felt terrible. During these past two weeks I’d started to think about making some plans, maybe seeing a few friends and going a few places. Today has reminded me why I don’t make plans. The problem is this – once you have made a [...]

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IBS is really two whole problems in one handy package. First you have the physical symptoms, which are no picnic – diarrhea, constipation, bloating, abdominal pain – I could go on, but I have to go to the bathroom. But then…you have the people. You know the ones I mean. Those smug, self-satisfied, unbelievably annoying [...]

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Got my shoelace stuck in the wheels of my swivel chair today. Am sure this is not the type of thing that happens to normal people.

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