Stories

You've a good day and think it's getting better. Then you eat and after 15 minutes you're running to bathroom. Sometimes you make it and well other times you miss...

Started when I was a kid. I would be in school crying because of stomach cramps. I would get all sweaty and clammy my teacher would send me to the...

My story begins in May 2013, one day I was lying on the sofa and I remember feeling the most excruciating pain and the urge to rush to the toiler...

I have always had issues as I would say with my stomach. When I was a kid I called it a nervous stomach. And yes, there were times I was...

My story begins May 2016 when I started having bleeding in my stools I found out I had colon cancer and I have been thru so much in the last...

I have been struggling with IBS for a few years now. I went to many doctors, had many tests done and the end result is it seemed that most of...

My story began almost 30 years ago after antibiotic treatment for cellulitis which followed a severe reaction to poison ivy. I have endured flare ups at work, at home and...

My IBS actually started in infancy, referred to as spastic colon in those days. As a young child I had problems every year when school started with a stomach ache...

As a kid, I ate what I wanted regardless of the consequences. As a young man of his 20s, I ate (and drank) what I wanted without worry. When I...

My story begins with a late-night trip to the ER because I ended up on the floor in the worst pain I've ever had! When I finally got seen and...

I have literally found the locations of every public restroom in my town and most in the neighboring towns. I found out years ago how important that information is. A...

I was diagnosed with IBS in 2011. One year before I graduated college. I had no clue what toll this diagnosis would have on my relatively young life. I have...

I have lived with IBS all my life. Once upon a time it literally ruled my life, I hardly ate out, due to it being difficult, based all my outings...

I was age 52 years old when I started having debilitating pain to my left lower side. I was extremely active and healthy I thought. I would hurt at work...

It's challenging to have an illness about which strangely little is known by the medical establishment. And as so many of us have discovered, when MDs are unfamiliar, the typical...

I was "diagnosed" with IBS when I was 15 years old. I went through upper and lower GIs at that time. That was the most embarrassing thing for me at...

I was diagnosed at age 9. Here I am, 51 years later, still suffering. I even have an emergency kit in my bathroom, with a pillow, blanket, heat pack, wash...

Have had it for years. It's a terrible feeling if you are out and need a bathroom. I seem to have it under control if not stressed, or eating the...

I had gastric sleeve surgery in 2012. After that two hiatal hernia repairs. Severe GERD. Then lost my job in 2017. I was already dealing with the loss of my...

What I would like others to know is that I didn't always have IBS, it started after taking Metformin and has not gone away since I stopped taking the medicine...