IBS Tales

I had a lovely email this morning from a lady named Sarah, who wrote to tell me that she had finished reading my IBS story and wanted to let me know that she thought my “self-pity and cynicism” were “pathetic”. She has “severe IBS-D” but she doesn’t let it bother her, oh no, she just [...]

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I keep forgetting to mention it, but one of my lovely IBS Tales volunteers is in this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine, hurray. It’s a fairly brief article because it’s part of a larger feature on food and healthy diets in general, but it’s still a good article (November issue, UK edition).
Probably the best thing about it [...]

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After my last entry, on the possible but entirely scientifically unproven effects of vitamin D on my IBS, I’ve had several people write to me to say that they’re gonna try taking vitamin D. Now this is worrying me.
This happened before when I went to see my latest doctor in the Spring, and people wrote [...]

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I’ve been feeling pretty darn well for around two weeks now, which is an extremely welcome relief. To be honest things were a bit grim there for a while – my guts seemed to get into their kind of “IBS place” which they don’t know how to get out of without help, and I never [...]

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There have been a couple of people in the news recently who have been talking about the “depression” that they have suffered from in the past. I’ve put that word in inverted commas because it seems that they have basically diagnosed themselves as having depression, which always strikes me as a rather dangerous, and even [...]

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I’ve found a very good new article which looks at the current diagnosis and treatment of IBS, as well as the latest theories on its causes. Written by the splendidly-named Dr Amy Foxx-Orenstein, who works for the prestigious Mayo Clinic in the US, it’s a very good intro to some of the latest research on [...]

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