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Being a parent has made my IBS worse, or at least more difficult to cope with. How you ask? By adding a whole load of anxiety. And as we all...

With the new year quickly approaching, I am starting to see people's goals they are setting for the new year. I'm not going to lie. I am one of those...

My diet has been fairly severely restricted for over 5 weeks now. I went from a liquid diet to a soft food diet and am stuck on still mostly soft...

Something I feel doesn't get talked about enough is mental health and the effects IBS can have on it. For years I kept in everything. We didn't really talk about...

Do you struggle with both GERD and IBS? It may feel when they both strike you're dealing with every letter of the alphabet, but this double manifestation is not uncommon...

My relationship with food has evolved over the years. What started out as a loving dynamic between 2 star-crossed lovers, had devolved into an anxiety-ridden butt war where I often...

As many things as we all rely on to get us through IBS, there are a few that are always going to come first on the list of "most important."...

While music is not actually a pain reliever, it is a distraction from the pain. The distraction often provides a decent bit of relief for me because it allows me...

As I wrote in the past, I have had IBS for more than two decades, starting in my junior year of college. In that time, I have experienced both ends...

Do you love cakes, cookies, muffins, bread, and anything doughy? Commonly made with gluten-abundant flour, honey, high fructose corn syrup, confectionary sugar, and milk, store-bought baked goods are essentially a...

Once I hit adulthood and had a child of my own, I realized the importance of advocating for others. Whether that is me being her advocate when a bully at...

I’m wondering: how was your gut health before IBS? Were you able to eat anything and everything? Or was your digestive system always a problem for you? My gut health...

When you don’t have packed snacks, finding an outside fuel source may feel like the IBS-version of Russian Roulette. Will it trigger symptoms, or will it not? So, instead, you...

Have you ever had one of those days where you just want to throw in the towel and give up? I think we all have. There are times when no...

I have IBS-M, and my flares flip-flop back and forth from one extreme to the other on a fairly regular basis. There is no normal for me. It is an...