IBS Tales

Get up at around 10.00am on a Sunday. Feel OK, no immediate stomach problems. Have breakfast and take soluble fiber supplement as usual. No urge to go to bathroom. Usually have urge in morning, straight after breakfast. If no urge in morning then will be no urge for the rest of the day. Still no [...]

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Just a reminder to everyone in the UK that next week (18-25 July) is Gut Week, a national campaign to raise awareness of digestive problems, including IBS. You can visit the Gut Week website for a free information pack (if you live in the UK) and to read more about the campaign. There’s also advice [...]

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Feeling better again now. Honestly, is like being half a normal healthy person and half a completely decrepit person whose intestines refuse to conform. I suppose the key to sanity is to enjoy the good parts and accept the bad parts – but not too much. I worry when I still hear IBS sufferers are [...]

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Had some pretty insane pain on Friday and then through the weekend. Was so bad Friday that I was actually swearing out loud, which doesn’t happen often (I am a good girl). Then today has been bad again, colon not working properly and feeling like a large mongoose is trying to make its way through [...]

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I watched a program last night about allergies, and it featured one girl who was allergic to everything from fruit and nuts to bees and grass. If she came into contact with one of her allergens she’d immediately go into anaphylactic shock and start suffocating, semi-conscious, until someone injected her with adrenaline. At one point [...]

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