IBS Tales

I’ve been in a couple of situations recently where I haven’t quite made the grade – I went for a job interview and didn’t get it, and I’ve been sorting a few things out in my life and have made some boring paperwork mistakes and things. When this type of thing happens, it’s not that [...]

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To me, one of the most convincing and sensible explanations for IBS is a disruption to the ‘friendly’ bacteria in the intestines. It seems like such a good explanation because many IBS sufferers find that their symptoms start after a particularly virulent bout of food poisoning, when evil bacteria are wreaking havoc with the gut. [...]

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Running a website on IBS has its difficulties, but in many ways IBS is an illness that’s uniquely suited to the web. If we’re uptight and embarrassed by our symptoms in real life then we can just cyber cry without anyone knowing who we are. I am sure that the internet has been a saving [...]

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The terrible scenes of the tsunami are still fresh on our screens. Thousands of people have been killed, many more are missing, and people are desperate. It is when horrific events like these occur that I start to wonder how much we actually deserve in life. What I mean is – do we all deserve [...]

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