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I've previously talked about my top tips for tackling your period with Crohn's disease. But what about the days leading up to your period itself? Premenstrual syndrome (or PMS for...

Perhaps I am just a peculiar person, but do you find that you get bad memories from being sick with Crohn's and find them attached to certain objects, places, or...

Fasting has been used for healing for thousands of years. The scientific practice can be traced back at least to the renowned Greek physician Hippocrates who in the 5th Century...

InflammatoryBowelDisease.net recently hosted its fourth Instagram Live in our 4-week series "Let's Talk FOOD!" featuring our very own Crohn's Patient Leader Julie Palumbo. In this series, Julie tackles a variety...

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...

Have you ever noticed that your stomach can feel fine the entire morning you are home but the second you get in your car for your daily commute to work...

Over the 8 or so years that I've been sick with ulcerative colitis, I've ended up at the ER more than a few times. Once it was due to a...

InflammatoryBowelDisease.net recently hosted its third Instagram Live in our 4-week series "Let's Talk FOOD!" featuring our very own Crohn's Patient Leader Julie Palumbo. In this series, Julie tackles a variety...

Being diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis certainly has its challenges. In addition to being handed a life sentence of living with a chronic illness, we suddenly have to navigate...

Recently, my insurance company decided that I needed to stop getting my UC infusions at the medical center. Instead, they wanted me to move to at-home infusions for my ulcerative...

InflammatoryBowelDisease.net recently hosted its second Instagram Live in our 4-week series "Let's Talk FOOD!" featuring our very own Crohn's Patient Leader Julie Palumbo. In this series, Julie tackles a variety...

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...

In the morning, I'm skinny. Well, I'm not rail-thin skinny. I've never been that size. Overall, I'm just an average-sized female. But I wonder... Why can't I stay that size...

InflammatoryBowelDisease.net recently hosted the first Instagram Live in our 4-week series "Let's Talk FOOD!" Featuring our very own Crohn's Patient Leader Julie Palumbo, we tackle all things food and IBD!...

"Flare" means "a sudden burst of bright flame" or "to burn with a sudden intensity." But for those like me, "flare" describes in perfect form how it looks and feels...

Having IBD is hard enough to deal with each and every day, and in my case, it's Crohn's disease. And with everything that we go through, we just never know...

Join us as we go LIVE on Instagram every Tuesday in October! Certified Nutrition Consultant and IBD Patient Leader Julie Palumbo tackles all things food and IBD. Julie lives with...

Most of us have heard of the "mind-body connection," a term often used to remind people that their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes can have an impact on the physical...

Because I am immuno-compromised, viruses attack my body much differently than other people. Combine my suppressed immune system with the fact that I don't have a colon or a foot of...

I recently wrote a post about sleep hygiene and IBD. In that post, I talked about what sleep hygiene means, what it actually involves, and why it's particularly important for...