Uncomfortable Holiday Questions...The holiday season is a perfect opportunity for families and friends to get together. We are sometimes fortunate to not see people we haven't seen in a while. People who...reactions1comment
Surviving the Winter Months...I used to really mind the winter months. While I was grateful to live in Pennsylvania where we enjoy four seasons, I terribly minded the cold, dark days December through...reactions2comments
Living With a Chronic Condition & Dating...How does living with a chronic condition impact dating? Hear from four Health Union contributors: Marisa Lauren Troy, who lives with inflammatory bowel disease; Alisha Bridges, who lives with plaque...reactionscomments
8 realities of Christmas with Crohn's Disease...The nights are dark and the weather is crisp. Which means we are officially on the countdown to the festive season! There's a lot of things I love about this...reactions2comments
Flying With An Ostomy? It's Okay To Speak Up!...I had a new experience while traveling with my ostomy about a month ago. I do want to say that flying with an ostomy is not as big a deal...reactions5comments
Crohn’s Fatigue and The Rally...Over the past two years, living with a form of Crohn’s symptom remission has been an interesting experience. Not having to experience digestive complications as much has been liberating. Unfortunately...reactions6comments
Working Around Crohn's Disease...People have asked me, "how did a nice Jewish boy wind up working for the notorious cocaine overlord Pablo Escobar in the late 1970's and 1980's?". It's a long story...reactions8comments
5 Ways to Help Navigate Public Restrooms during a Crohn’s Flare...We’ve all been there. You are out in a public place, be it a restaurant or amusement park and the urgency hits you hard. The panic sets in and the first...reactions4comments
I was diagnosed in 2015...I was just 15 years old when I experienced heavy rectal bleeding, diarrhea and abdominal pain for a week. I went to a gastro and she scheduled a colonoscopy and...reactions3comments
Overcoming Mental Hurdles of Anemia...Unpredictability reigns supreme in my experience with ulcerative colitis. Each success in managing my disease comes with a twist. My symptoms manifest most strongly through anemia, leaving me unable to...reactions3comments
Anyone in a clinical trial for Filgotinib?...I’m just curious if anyone else has been tapped by their physician to try out the latest JAK inhibitor, Filgotinib. The trial coordinator told me, and I’ve since read as...reactions1replyTreatment
Crohn's disease with normal biopsy?...I have lived with chronic pain in my abdomen since I was about 13. I've been told many times I have IBS but today I saw my gastroenterologist and he...reactions4replies
Coping as best I can......Was diagnosed after surgery for appendix which revealed a baseball size mass caused by Crohn's. Lots of loose bowels most of my adult life but just figured that was how...reactions1comment
Advice please possible ibd...Hello. My name is Dean and for the past 6 months, I’ve been suffering. I wanted to post in here, in the hopes of maybe someone can relate and put...reactions2replies
Diagnosed 20 years ago...After suffering most of my life with stomach pains, finally was diagnosed with Crohn's at age 50. Already was diagnosed with Hashimotos previously. Once diagnosed with Crohn's, had a colonoscopy...reactions2comments
My Crohn’s life...My Crohn’s disease made its entrance when I was pregnant, so I was hard to treat because the baby had to be protected. So my August baby became a June...reactions1comment
I was only 11 when Crohn's changed my life forever....Today I am almost 28 years old. It was around this time 16 years ago (Thanksgiving to be exact) that I was admitted to the hospital for severe abdominal pain...reactions2comments
The Awareness, I Love It...It may just be my lack of watching television or popular shows, but lately, I've really been seeing a lot of good references to inflammatory bowel disease in the media...reactions4comments
IBD won’t win...I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis when I was 16. Now, 20, I’ve been through many different kinds and combinations of treatments including 2 different biologics. I’ve met with multiple...reactions3comments
From hopeless to hopeful....Until last Christmas my family has been pretty lucky healthwise. We’ve barely had more than a cold but last fall our 16-year-old daughter started having frequent stomach pain, unexplainable exhaustion...reactions2comments
