Amanda Osowski

Last week, I had my first colonoscopy in 7 years. This might shock you, as many IBD patients have them as frequently as once a year. My history with this...

As a Crohn’s patient, I was prescribed my first biologic in early 2016, just a few months after my official diagnosis. When it came time to navigate logistics, I was...

Almost a year and a half ago, I left my full time corporate job in patient advocacy at a small biotech company. The demands on my time and energy were...

As someone who has lived with IBD unofficially for 15 years and officially for 8 years, I have heard just about everything in the book when it comes to other...

As someone who’s lived with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) for nearly 15 years now, I’m not stranger to the fact that Crohn’s disease is often on my mind. There have...

A few months back, I started experiencing some new symptoms, along with an uptick in my inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) symptoms. In addition to more frequent and urgent diarrhea and...

After being sick for a very long time, I was finally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease back in 2009. By this point, I’d been in and out of doctors offices and...

Wow, I wish I knew the answer to this question. Does anyone know the answer to this question? That's something I think about all of the time. In truth, we...

As a Crohn's patient on medications like Remicade and Azathioprine, my doctor asks that I get routine lab work done, usually every three months. I am an incredibly hard stick...

This has been a really hard season for my IBD. I've been having flare-like symptoms, but they've been associated with other health issues too. Sometimes I'm sure it's my Crohn's...

Recently I was trying to think about 1 pivotal moment in my life that was impacted by Crohn's disease and shaped me as a person, and I think it's naive...

Living with inflammatory bowel disease is such a multifaceted set of challenges. There are obviously physical things we struggle with – from abdominal pain to frequent and urgent bathroom trips...

My IBD diagnostic journey took several years longer than it should have. I started showing consistent symptoms in the fall of 2009, and wasn't correctly diagnosed until early 2016. During...

I recently was giving an oral medical history to a new medical provider. This past fall, I was diagnosed with asthma, and I had been seeing a pulmonologist to manage...

As an IBD advocate, I talk all the time about how this is far more than just a pooping disease. As anyone with IBD knows, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis...

I'm one of the lucky ones. I say lucky not because my journey with IBD has been simple, not because my getting correctly diagnosed or finding a treatment that worked...

While I live with Crohn's disease that's currently in remission, I am also actively struggling with infertility. For the last 4 years, I've either been in the midst of fertility...

I recently wrote about how the mental load of living with an invisible illness (in my case, Crohn's disease) can get extremely heavy and even very lonely over time. I...

During the years I struggled with undiagnosed Crohn's disease, my mental health suffered. I was full of symptoms and missing answers, and many of the healthcare providers I sought out...

Last year, I wrote an article about finding a lump in my breast, and how much I wanted Crohn's and ulcerative colitis patients to know that the medications we take...