Stories

I've been prone to watery diarrhea most of my life, but it started becoming a real problem in 2013 when I lost about 30 lbs. without even trying. After spending...

I was diagnosed with UC about 5 years ago when I was visiting a friend in Oregon. I was 70 years old, a little late in life. Reading other people’s...

I have Crohn's Disease and I have no GI symptoms that I recognize. Joint stiffness is a maybe. I have had that for years, fingers, wrist, hips, knees, ankles and...

Despite good, horrible, and detrimental care throughout the years, I have survived. Mostly this was due to research and advocating for myself from 17 to today. Surgery has always been...

I have had Crohn’s since 2004. At first, I was managing it ok, but then just the last couple of years have been unbearable. Constantly bloody stools, fistulas, diarrhea, fever...

I have had many diagnoses over many years. DIVERTICULITIS. Bile salt malabsorption. IBD but still same symptoms. My life is very limited unable to go very far. So many different...

I became very unwell just over a year ago. Diahrea, then the bleeding and vomiting. Was admitted to the hospital where I was diagnosed with Pancolitis. Then the second episode...

I was diagnosed with severe Crohn’s disease in May 2001 my senior year at LSU. I have endured 5 colon re-sections, 5 blood transfusions, an ileostomy surgery, a coloctomy surgery...

Crohn's is an unrelenting disease. It can feel like it will never stop. There are some days you want to give up. I've reached my limit multiple times. It makes...

I was diagnosed at the age of 20 but symptoms came suddenly when I was 19. There was no warning, just sudden abdominal pain one morning. It took about 6...

I will try to keep this short and lite. If the women with an colostomy want to skip to the end, please do. Since I was 12 yrs old I...

I've been living with Crohn's disease for 45 years. During that time, food and I have been friends and enemies. I love food. Growing it, cooking it, and eating it...

I was first diagnosed with IBD at 27 in 2009. It still feels like a separate lifetime ago. At the time I was diagnosed, I had just started a new...

My story started 10 days after returning from Singapore to visit my THEN husband, who was stationed there with the military. I came home and had the worst stomach pain...

My name is Michelle. I was a very active athlete and felt healthy. It was the end of May in 2015 heading into Memorial Day weekend (Friday). I had gone...

I've been dealing with Crohn's symptoms since I was 15 y/o and it took almost 25 years to take me seriously. When I moved to York PA from Philadelphia, PA...

A man in our neighborhood who knew I was having health problems asked recently, "How are you doing?" I gave a vague answer, but then he said, "Are you getting...

I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in my late fifties. In the middle of January, after what felt like a normal bowel movement, I noticed a lot of mucus amongst...

Go back to 1971; in college, newly married for 3 months, 20 years old, and going in for exploratory surgery. Yes, that was me. I had been suffering with upset...

I was first diagnosed with UC in 2012, but only after several years of a misdiagnosis of IBS did I consider this could be something far more. 10 years and...