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If you have been diagnosed with IBS, you have likely found there are certain foods that work for you and certain foods that don’t. Sometimes it’s hard to see past...

Anyone struggling with IBS knows stress can worsen symptoms. As a naturopathic physician, I often hear reports from patients about the ways in which stress impacts their digestion. Some people...

I have been contemplating working from home full-time due to illness issues. Obviously, one of those issues is IBS. I believe that it could relieve a lot of the stress...

I have learned so much from everyone who participates on this site. While I have a lot of experience working with illness (both my own and others), I think sometimes...

Well, folks, it’s time for my annual holiday report. While I’d love to say that Thanksgiving was a huge success…it was not. As in years gone by, I have found...

There are multiple ways to manage living with IBS and Fibromylagia. Here are 7 tips for you or someone you know who is going through these conditions: Whether it's online...

As I've mentioned several times before on here, in addition to having IBS, I also have GERD. This shouldn't be surprising – as GERD and IBS often tend to intersect...

I didn’t know if I should write about this topic because firstly, fashion is not that important and secondly, not everyone cares about it. But for me, having to sacrifice...

I was so excited when we finally moved from a tiny 2-bedroom apartment into an actual house 2 years ago. Granted, it’s a small house, but it’s just so much...

As a naturopathic physician who specializes in the treatment and management of digestive health conditions, I am often asked what naturopathic medicine can offer a patient struggling with IBS. I...

First off, let me start by saying that I would rather not deal with either IBS-D or IBS-C at all. I am simply just sharing my opinion, and the opinion...

My very first post for this site was on endometriosis and IBS. Endometriosis is when cells similar to endometrium (the lining of the uterus that a woman sheds during menstruation)...

I was speaking to my therapist one day about the intensity of my anxiety. Anyone who suffers from chronic, acute anxiety will tell you how god awful painful it is...

As many of us may already know, nicotine is a stimulant that is used for a smoking cessation aid and the relief of tobacco withdrawal symptoms. It is highly addictive...

I am less than one week away from having a hysterectomy. I tried everything else I could and I cannot live anymore with the heavy bleeding and extraordinary pain that...

IBS is a syndrome or a collection of symptoms that we are diagnosed with when no other medical cause of the symptoms can be found. But there is the possibility...

Bile acid malabsorption (often called bile acid diarrhea) is a condition where the body either produces too much bile acids or does not properly reabsorb bile acid in the small...

Getting my IBS diagnosis more than 2 decades ago was an ordeal, to say the least. First, I had to suffer for months, from frequent and severe bouts of diarrhea...

When I have a problem, I want to solve it. I want to understand it, fix it, make it go away and make sure that it doesn’t come back. I...

Living with irritable bowel syndrome, no matter what subtype, can be very difficult in so many ways. However, since I deal with IBS with predominant diarrhea (IBS-D), I sometimes speak...