Living

I'm frustrated. In Australia, there is very little support or organisation for people with IBD. There is not even any statistics or data on people living with IBD in Australia...

Lately, I’ve really been feeling the need for change. Not just lately. It actually started a while ago. I’ve spent much of my life sick or taking care of the...

After being a patient for more than 15 years, there’s a lot I’ve observed - good and bad. More recently, I’ve been in and out of a lot of specialists...

Life is not always smooth sailing. Some days I wondered what I did in a past life to deserve this one or even wondered if I have paid my dues...

When it comes to IBD, we're all in the same boat, but you can usually spot the difference between the newly diagnosed and the old-timers who feel as if they've...

In my last post, "Preparing to Become a Mother with Crohn's Disease - Part 1", I shared several of the things that have stood out for me in planning for...

Awareness is a word we hear a lot about when it comes to living with IBD. And with each World IBD Day comes another chance to raise awareness of  Inflammatory...

IBD...a fad it seems? When I was diagnosed about 12 years ago, I rarely saw commercials for medications to help with IBD. Now, I would be surprised if I didn’t...

We asked the community to submit questions about inflammatory bowel disease IBD, and we received a range of great ones! Here, Dr. Nandi answers a question related to chest pain...

When we asked the community to submit questions about inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), we received a range of great questions related to nutrition and IBD. Dr. Nandi answers several here...

This has crossed my mind a million times. If it were the other way around, and my husband was the one with Crohn’s disease, how would I handle it? And...

What’s it like being a mama with Crohn's? It’s feeling like a walking zombie day in and day out as you deal with interrupted sleep and chronic illness fatigue. It’s...

In my last post, We Have to Plan to Plan - Life & Routine with IBD, I talked about how my Type A personality has evolved since my journey with...

Before I get into the topic at hand, I just wanted to take this time to let you know how much we really value your comments, thoughts, stories, suggestions, and...

I wrote a few articles last year about how my mental health was affected by several long hospitalizations and how it lead to the crumbling of my mental health. And...

I was lucky. I have always been an intuitive person. I've always just “known” things and have even been lucky enough to have a mother that encouraged following that instinct...

Eight years ago, I officially became a mother. Ten years ago, I officially became an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patient. And the two lives often bicker and fight over who...

A few years ago, I didn’t like where my care was at. I had been in and out of the hospital and trying several biologics that were not working and...

Turn your darkness into light Turn your silence into sound Josh Groban My whole life, I’ve turned to music to express the things I couldn’t. Whether it was enthusiasm or...

I have to be honest- I usually don’t keep Passover. Keeping the holiday means not eating anything with yeast in it. This mostly means staying away from bread for eight...