IBS Tales

The other day I was reading the blog of a British poet who has recently died from breast cancer. She kept a blog for about a year or two before she died, and at one point she writes: “Life is suffering. But not all the time.”
And I’ve been thinking about that a lot. I’ve also [...]

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Feeling a bit more cheery now. Oh the wonderful cycle of pain that is IBS.
Stomach is still being slightly bizarre, but at least it has stopped being painful. If IBS was only about stomach discomfort and weird gurgling noises (like I’ve got at the moment) then that would be no problem – it’s the PAIN [...]

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Hmm. Stomach has improved somewhat – not to the levels of a normal person but I stopped being normal about 15 years ago so that’s probably setting my sights too high.
Still, what I wouldn’t do for my old stomach back. Can you believe I never used to think about food or going to the bathroom, [...]

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Well that was quite painful. After around six whole weeks of a perfectly normal, standard issue stomach I’ve just had a week and a half of swathes of pain and gut disasters. Lord knows why.
Seem to be finally coming out the other side now, but that was really not a whole lot of fun. And [...]

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