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As 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...

I’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...

I 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...

IBS 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...

IBS 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...

I 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...

Recently, 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...

In 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...

Did 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...

I 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...

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...

While 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...

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...

I 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...

Most 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...

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...

"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...

I'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...

Before 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...