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I’ve been writing for IrritableBowelSyndrome.com for a little more than 6 years and have written several hundred articles. What I would like to establish here is that while the themes...

If you follow the low FODMAP diet to manage your irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms, you may wonder what the letters stand for. Here, we will focus on the "D"...

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...

It seems I keep adding to the list of ailments I have. Since many of them are affected by diet, the struggle to eat as I should is more difficult...

I’ve never been one to be open with others about things going on in my life, even with my own family. I always worry I will be a bother or...

On Saturday night, I made dinner, chicken thighs in a pear-mustard sauce. It was delicious. But, then the flare-up came, rearing its ugly head. In my article titled "Inferno," I...

Are you following the low FODMAP diet to manage your irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms? If so, you may be wondering what all those letters stand for. This article focuses...

Just recently, I was celebrating my boyfriend’s mom’s birthday. It was a group of 12, and we decided to go to lunch in a fun area of town where shopping...

I have IBS-M, and that means I have mixed episodes of diarrhea and constipation. This makes it even harder to predict flares. Having IBS often seems like being stuck in...

For people living with chronic health conditions, managing weight can be a particularly challenging task. Balancing the demands of managing symptoms and treatments with the need to maintain a healthy...

Salon appointments are time-consuming, especially if you are dying your hair. You can be sitting in the chair for upwards of 4-5 hours, depending on what service you get. But...

I can’t remember a time in my life when my gut wasn’t something I thought about on a daily basis. Even as a child I learned quickly that I always...

It’s a new year, and I am determined to prioritize improving my IBS symptoms. For those who don’t know, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in addition to IBS. I...

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...

Unfortunately, as we all know, IBS symptoms can creep up on us out of nowhere. You can feel great one moment when suddenly, the next moment, your symptoms can hit...

It is no secret that periods can come with some uncomfortable side effects like bloating, painful cramps, and frequent trips to the bathroom. If you are also living with IBS...

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 only took what my car could hold when I decided to move. I knew I would need nice clothes for work, so I brought all I could and planned...

Can the way we think about ourselves and our capabilities affect our lives? Absolutely! How we think about ourselves affects how we feel, what we achieve, whether we stick to...

After my IBS diagnosis, what happened to me was an unexplainable issue: hair loss and hair thinning. I'm not talking about losing patches of hair as it happens to those...