Karina

For a couple of months, I felt really good. With minimal daily symptoms, only occasional IBS-D flares and a pretty well-rounded gluten-free diet, my life almost felt normal for a...

This summer, my partner and I decided to stay at home instead of going away. We have a toddler and a baby, we still don’t sleep through the night, and...

It was recently sick season in our household. After a nasty flu, several colds and hand-foot-mouth, my children brought home my least favorite bug of all: the stomach virus. For...

In the past year, I’ve been on a mission to nourish my body the best I can without upsetting my IBS-D. While I still struggle to eat during flares, I...

Water kefir is the newest trend going around in my partner’s family. Usually, I stay far away from their health-related obsessions. One of them consisted of basically poisoning oneself and...

For years, I have eliminated one food after the other to reduce my IBS symptoms. First, it was most dairy products, tomatoes, then any sauce. Pumpkin and squashes, gluten, coffee...

Sometimes, I don’t understand how my brain works. I’ve had IBS for years. I know how sensitive my digestive system is and how careful I need to be about my...

Before you brush off this article by telling me that baby reflux and IBS are not related at all, just hear me out. Of course, the 2 things aren’t the...

After trying to manage my IBS through diet, medication, and lifestyle changes, I finally decided to give hypnotherapy a go. I had read about it online and I had heard...

Do you ever feel like everything you do or eat results in a flare? I suppose that as IBS sufferers, most of us have been through a bad phase like...

I wouldn’t say that I’m lactose intolerant. On good days, I can enjoy some cheese or cream and be perfectly fine. Although I do have to stay far away from...

My trigger foods tend to change over time. Sometimes, these changes are for the better. Then, I go from not being able to eat food at all to enjoy small...

My digestive system has had a good couple of months lately. Of course, I have had some bad flares and several mild ones during this time. But most days, I...

How can I confuse anxiety and IBS symptoms when they are 2 completely different things? Well, they are not, really. At least not for me. Unless I consciously know I’m...

As IBS sufferers, we often talk about the physical symptoms of the illness. The urgency, the cramps, the painful bloating – they're terrible. But there's so much more to it...

I’ve recently come across a new phenomenon in my IBS journey: middle-of-the-night flares. Waking up at 4 am to go to the bathroom is not fun. It’s been one of...

In the first years of my IBS journey, my diet was mostly based on lists and recommendations I found on the internet. And those helped a lot. However, as time...

I very much enjoyed my first IBS-free pregnancy. When I struggled with worsening symptoms after delivery, I always longed to get pregnant again to get some relief. Then, I did...