Stories

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...

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...

My story begins in 1997 when I moved to Pennsylvania with my sister. I was walking down the street one day to go to work and I started feeling sick...

I’ve had stomach issues my entire life. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have horrible cramping and felt like my bowels were going to explode after a single...

I have UC and I try to plan my outings knowing where the restrooms are at all times. I was at Sam's club checking out when a wave of pain...

Being a Crohn’s fighter since age 19, at age 35 I was a pro...sorry, a “bowel Queen", when this short but timeless story occurred. My friends decided to renew their...

Instead of re-living the same pain journey, here’s some fun points. 1) Diagnosed age 19 when nursing college started, perfect timing cause no freshman weight gain! Also I was lucky...

I recall carefree youthful days, full of athletic vim and vigor. Never a medical care in the world, I was a very "healthy specimen." So, at the age of 31...

I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 10 years ago. Then I was put on high doses of prednisone and I wasn’t getting any better. I soon became so sick that...

Here I am two years later. Two years later since the headaches. Two years later since the dizziness. Two years later since the double vision. Two years later since the...

When I was 16 I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC). I began exhibiting symptoms at the beginning of 2019 when I was 15 years old. It took the doctors...

I am 27 and I recently got diagnosed with IBD-UC. Before this happened, I didn't even know anything about it- that my own body can attacked me. It's all new...

I’ve been diagnosed with Crohn’s for 29 years. My sons were just 3 and 1 when I started this horrific journey with Crohn’s. Although, at that time I didn’t fit...

I was 29 when I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. 10 years prior, I was standing proud on the parade deck at Parris Island, South Carolina having earned the title...

I laid in my bed for two months straight. I didn't have enough energy to cook my food. I didn't have enough money to go to the grocery store. I...

Crohn's disease has been my primary health nemesis for the past 40 years, provoking 5 gut surgeries, an ileostomy, and complicating 3 ankle surgeries, due to post-surgical infection. Pain management...

I’ve had a thirty year struggle with Crohn’s disease. When I was around ten years old I used to get bad stomach pains. Sometimes I’d vomit. Other times I’d leave...

I was diagnosed with UC about 2.5 years ago and then it eventually led to Crohn’s. How it became Crohn’s is when I had very painful fistula form. I couldn’t...

I was 29 when I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. It was Easter Sunday, I was coloring eggs with my son, husband, and friends kids. Then, out of nowhere, this...

My story is about my husband. He passed away June 1, 2019 from complications from Crohn's disease. He was diagnosed 12/10/2007. We did not understand his illness fully. We needed...