Living

This is the story of how I stumbled upon 7 ways to avoid germs with Crohn’s disease. The other day, I was driving and the Howard Stern Show was on...

Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, and I sure do have lots to be thankful for. My biological injections keep working. I don’t want to jinx myself, but they have been working...

I have been dealing with a bad cough, sore throat, and general cold symptoms for about two months now. In a previous article, I wrote about how difficult it was...

This is a topic I haven’t hit on a lot because I’m honestly still trying to navigate it and understand it myself. But I also realize the importance of it...

I could write forever about the things I’ve learned during the last 10 years living with inflammatory bowel disease, but today I want to focus on one thing in particular:...

Somewhat recently, my father was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). When I first heard the news, it was devastating, yet familiar. In moments of crisis, time seems to slow...

It’s no secret. No matter how many times you tell your loved ones how you are suffering with Crohn’s symptoms, unless they actually have the disease themselves, they just cannot comprehend...

At a health conference a few years back, I was fresh off the hill. Capitol Hill, that is. I was feeling pretty spiffy about my new-found change-making abilities. And then...

Before becoming a new mom, I knew my Crohn’s disease and the medication I take for it could impact my ability to breastfeed. I wrote here about the questions I...

This is Part 2. Part 1 is here. As badly as I wanted to go horseback riding, I knew it wouldn't end well. My disease has caused so much trauma...

Dating with IBD can be tricky. Many years ago, I got involved with a cute brunette from Ohio. We met on vacation in Florida. A few weeks after we got...

Someone recently reached out to me, saying they are newly diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. They told me their medications and basically implied hating them. They told me they were really...

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s at the age of 22. I had just graduated from college, was living with three friends and had just started my career, so having kids...

My mental health and IBD have always been closely intertwined. Like many people with Crohn's, I worry. I worry that I'm never going to feel well. I worry that when...

It was very hard to come up with a title for this article since I am not really sure that "bathroomphobia" is a real word. Then I thought that you...

Unless you walk a mile in our shoes, it is nearly impossible to know what it is like to live with Crohn’s disease. People are always quick to judge how...

Each year we ask people with inflammatory bowel disease, including ulcerative colitis, to tell us about their lives in the IBD In America survey. For the 2019 survey, 1,705 people...

One of the biggest downfalls of living with Crohn’s disease is comparing ourselves to other patients. We often hear “this worked for me, perhaps it will work for you” or...

It's coming up to 6 years since I was diagnosed. Six years isn't that long a period of my life, just under a sixth of it in fact (I'm 34)...

Today’s workforce is unlike anything predicted in the past two decades. The internet, along with technology advancements, has opened the door to so many new possibilities in the workforce. But...