IBS Tales

Have had a fairly dramatically bad few days. On Thursday I had a very strange half hour episode of pain and feeling like my stomach might blow up, but then it went away. Then on Friday I had four hours of pretty bad cramps, had to go to bed to wait for them to wear [...]

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Bad day yesterday, but feel OK today. One of the most depressing aspects of IBS, and one of the most insidious dangers to your social life, is its unpredictability. People say to me “We’re going out on Sunday, do you think you’ll be feeling OK?” And I say “If you can just give me a [...]

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Do people talk to you like you have a chronic illness? No, me either. People talk to me like I’m a completely healthy, normal human being. Even people who know that I have had IBS for years and years and years talk to me like there’s no problem, like I have hayfever or a mild [...]

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News today from Michael Mahoney, one of the best-known hypnotherapists in the UK and the man behind the much-praised IBS Audio Program. He has been working on a new program which is now ready for release. It’s called “An Aid to Emotional Recovery after Breast Cancer”, and although it is directed at breast cancer patients, [...]

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I think that it’s natural for human beings to compare themselves to others. Many of the things that motivate us come from envy – I want a house like that, a wife like that, a bowel like that. But it often occurs to me that while we often compare ourselves to the people who have [...]

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