Living

For the record, I am not a fan of colonoscopies. Show me someone who says they love them and I will show you a liar! Now that we’ve gotten that...

After going through my list of medications, medical history, and past procedures regarding my Crohn’s disease, the nurse or doctor whom I was seeing would say, "Otherwise you are healthy."...

When you spend over a year in the hospital, you start to get used to the routines. I always knew when there was a shift change. I always knew when...

If you’ve followed along for a little while, I recently became a new mom. After years of struggling to conceive, undergoing fertility treatments and finally having success with IVF, I...

When a celebrity is on the news for being diagnosed with something serious or they are speaking about it, there is often a sort of “backlash” that several of us...

Since I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, back in 2009, I never had the urge to go to a concert. Honestly, it just never sounded appealing to me. Being around...

This is always, in my opinion, one of the hardest things to deal with when being diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Grieving the old you. Will I ever be the old...

As someone who has had symptoms of Crohn’s disease for over 10 years now, I often think about my life in seasons or in chapters based on my health. When...

When you live with a chronic illness like ulcerative colitis, it can be difficult to know what exactly warrants a trip to the emergency room or hospital. I know going...

I’ve posted a ton on this site over the past few years. Although I’ve shared a great variety of things, I think a lot of it seems to come off...

I've been writing about my experiences of IBD, pregnancy and beyond so today I thought I'd broach the topic of breastfeeding. Like most aspects of IBD, this seems to be...

I’ve known my body for 33 years. I know how it feels when I eat something I shouldn’t. I know how I feel when I am starving, and I know...

Bacteriotherapy - what is it? Antibiotics usually take out ALL the bacteria, including the good bacteria in addition to the bad bacteria (C. Diff) that we are targeting. Because of...

I became an active member of the online Inflammatory Bowel Disease community back in 2014, and I now run a Facebook group, #IBDSuperHeroes. I feel very fortunate because it’s generally...

When my health began to tank several years ago, I was spinning out in a severe flare-up. I have Crohn’s, Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Quite a mix...

We seem to see gut health being discussed more and more frequently at the moment, but some topics are still very for taboo. For women, in particular, it seems it's...

While ulcerative colitis may come with a ton of potential symptoms, rectal bleeding is a huge issue for many patients. Understandably, it is very troubling to see the toilet bowl...

When we think of symptoms that come with Crohn’s Disease, we often think of stomach irritation, nausea, bloody stools, and the occasional joint pain. However, my journey with Crohn’s started...

Living with an invisible, chronic disease like ulcerative colitis is no picnic. I am sure those of you reading this who suffer from this form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...

I think that people who do not live with Crohn's or ulcerative colitis do not realize how much deeper IBD affects people. We are not just living with diarrhea and...