Advice for Someone Who's Newly Diagnosed...Between the pain, symptoms, flares, and other daily challenges, life with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is hard. We want to shed light...reactions1comment
My Top 5 Tips To Avoid Painful Blood Draws and IVs...Getting your blood drawn can turn into a painful and unpleasant event real fast. Oh yes, I have had my fair share of...reactionscomments
Dear Prednisone......Dear Prednisone, Oh, how utterly difficult you can be. Whenever you are given to me, I am met with the most conflicting...reactions7comments
Five Trigger Foods You Might Want To Avoid With Crohn's Disease...Diet is a tricky subject. No two Crohn’s patients are identical. A food one patient can tolerate, another might find troublesome. What...reactions1comment
Hydration: The Significance and the Struggle...One of my biggest struggles with Crohn’s disease has been staying hydrated. It is something I have struggled with for years and...reactions2comments
Garden Frittata...Back in the '90s, the slogan for eggs was "The Incredible, Edible Egg" which went along with a catchy tune to describe...reactionscomments
Food & Self Acceptance Part 1...My relationship with food has always been a complicated one. Even without taking my condition into consideration. I was diagnosed with ulcerative...reactionscomments
Telling Your Story May Be Good for Your Health...“While writing about my health issues has not cured them, it has helped me develop better coping skills and even contributed to...reactionscomments
I Have Poop Coming from Where?!...“I never thought something like this would happen to me...” is a phrase that often comes to mind on my journey with...reactions5comments
When Your Friends Give You Stay At Home Orders...I fully confess that lately, in order to avoid thinking about the decline of my own health, I've been doing something I...reactionscomments
Thriving with Crohn's Disease...Seven years ago, I was not sure about anything. I’d been debilitatingly ill for a while already, with no answers and no...reactions3comments
Disability Stigma...I recently ran across a post by a young woman who was told to “just apply for disability,” in response to her...reactionscomments
My Humira Diary: Month 4...Editor's Note: Response to treatments are different for every person. Please discuss any concerns about medications with your healthcare professional. For the...reactionscomments
Holland...Holland is a writer, marketing consultant, and patient advocate. She has been living with Crohn's disease since her early teens where she...
Dear 16 Year-old, Newly Diagnosed Self...Dear 16 year old me, In 3 days you will be diagnosed with something that will change your world, little girl. You're...reactionscomments
Major life changes due to diagnosis...For many people, a diagnosis of IBD has brought about some pretty major life changes. For some, that has been purely dietary...reactions1comment
To The Newly Diagnosed, I See You...You've just been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease. You're scared and a little embarrassed to even say the words. You don't want...reactionscomments
Helpful Hints for the Newly Diagnosed - Part 1...These are some helpful hints that I've found based on my experience for the person who's been recently diagnosed with IBD. They...reactions1comment
Angry...I will admit I still get angry. I still get angry at the fact that about 5 years of my life was...reactions3comments
Paper Products Princess...Confession time ... I’m a toilet paper snob. Yep, it’s true. For this UC sufferer, I possess real discriminating tastes towards the...reactions1comment
