IBS Tales

The journalist who interviewed me about a week ago called yesterday to read her story to me before publication. And it was…well, let’s just say that it bore some relation to the facts, something like a second cousin thrice removed.
So I wasn’t that happy with it, but the trouble is that the magazine has this [...]

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I’ve been expanding my blog horizons lately and reading some good blogs from other people with health problems and disabilities. We all have different types of pain, discomfort or other bodily woes to put up with, but the ridiculous assumptions that people make about disability seem to be pretty universal.
Maybe I’m lucky that IBS is [...]

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When an IBS sufferer chooses to come out of the closet and tell the world about their problems, there are a range of responses which non-sufferers can choose from.
There is the highly popular “It’s all in your head”, the classic “Stop thinking about it and it will go away”, and perhaps one of the most [...]

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Hurray! For those of you who don’t know I had to turn off the ‘comments’ feature of this blog a while back because stupid spammers were misusing the feature and posting hundreds of URLs to rubbish like poker sites and porn.
But I won’t let them beat me! I will fight them on the beaches! I [...]

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Most of us long-term IBS sufferers are well aware that IBS is not life-threatening, and is rarely considered to be a ’serious’ illness – we’ve had enough people say “Oh, it’s good that it’s just IBS then” to have a clear idea of exactly how seriously other people take this condition.
However, a new study mentioned [...]

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Have just been interviewed for a weekly women’s magazine, for a true-life story about IBS. It’s always good to get more about IBS in the media because a lot of people are still labouring under the false assumption that IBS is a minor inconvenience rather than something that can swallow your life whole.
After all these [...]

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