Potential Topical Treatments for IBSAs I've been writing a lot about lately, I've been waking up at strange hours of the night, with really bad abdominal pain. This abdominal pain is also commonly accompanied...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
Medical Cannabis for IBS Symptom ReliefI’ll be honest with you folks, if it weren’t for medical cannabis, I don’t know how I would be able to function every day while dealing with IBS. That sounds...Reactions0reactionsComments1 comments
The New YouI fear change. Some folks embrace and some actually thrive on it. But, when it comes to changing what may seem like your entire way of life due to illness...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Food is Not the Enemy: Part IIBS often makes us experiment with recipes. We avoid dairy, grains, seeds, fruit – anything we think might be causing discomfort. But have we stopped to think about whether we...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
IBS - A Female PerspectiveIBS isn’t fun for anyone – I honestly don’t think that it makes any difference whether you’re male or female. And yet, I feel like some specific struggles are probably...Reactions0reactionsComments8 comments
My Pain is My FuelI have been living with irritable bowel syndrome for over eight years now, and the first few years were torturous. I didn’t know what was triggering my pain or how...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
IBS EducationRecently, I have spent a lot of time going over the website that is IrritableBowelSyndrome.net. I have been a contributor here for more than two years and I am pretty...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
The Connection Between POTS and IBSIn addition to having IBS, I also have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which is a connective tissue disease. I've already written about the potential connection between IBS and EDS here, but many...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
How to Meal Plan on the Low FODMAP DietDid you know that we spend an average of 120 minutes of our time at the grocery store each week? Yes, that’s two hours! If you’re anything like me, you...Reactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Proof That My Mindset Around My IBS is ChangingI had a proud moment where I changed how I dealt with my IBS symptoms and I wanted to share it because it’s taken me a while to get to...Reactions0reactionsComments3 comments
I Have No Choice But to Keep Pushing (No Pun Intended)Pushing – in almost every sense of the word, has become a big part of my life ever since I got irritable bowel syndrome. I push myself daily to do...Reactions0reactionsComments2 comments
Musculoskeletal Pain and Tightness and IBSWhile some of the most profound pain I routinely experience is in the pelvic region, it's not exclusive to that part of my body. I experience chronic pain and muscle...Reactions0reactionsComments3 comments
How Well Do You Cope with Coping?Last year, Health Union’s IBS In America 2018 surveyed about 1,500 people like you and me, individuals living with IBS, to better the impact the condition has on our lives...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Eating Green While Managing Your IBSI have been (mostly) vegetarian for over 25 years now, ever since I was a sophomore in high school. When I began having IBS symptoms mid-way through college, many of...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Patiently WaitingMost of us in this community know that dealing with IBS can become what seems like a never-ending waiting game. It took many of us years to finally get diagnosed...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Take the Chronic Pain In America Survey! (Now Closed)We know the frustrations of chronic pain. Will you help others understand by taking our survey? Simply put, living with chronic pain is painful. But there is so much more...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Dealing with Resentment"Resentment is like drinking poison hoping the other person will die." I’ve heard this quote lots of times. Therapists have relayed these words, 12-step meetings, support groups of all types...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
The Role of Tryptophan in IBSI've been writing a lot lately about the brain-gut axis, and the role the brain can play in IBS. More specifically, I have also been looking at how serotonin, which...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Choco-nut MacaroonWhen I try out a new IBS friendly recipe that I like, I feel I must share it with others. I like sweets, but I can only have them once...Reactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Confessions Of A Coffee Lover: Substitutes and Ways to Make it WorkBefore IBS, I loved drinking coffee. I had it every day, often multiple times a day. Although it always had an impact on my digestion, like it probably does for...Reactions0reactionsComments10 comments