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Entries from October 30th, 2006

To Sarah, Who Thinks I’m Pathetic

October 30th, 2006 · 24 Comments · IBS

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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Cosmopolitan

October 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments · IBS

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).
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Don’t believe anything you read

October 26th, 2006 · 7 Comments · IBS

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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