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Brooke’s Personal Story: “I went undiagnosed with Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD) for 14 years…” My Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction Story   I went undiagnosed with Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD) for 14 years…   Immediately after having my gallbladder out in 1998, I developed severe pain in my right side, under my ribs that […]

Zana’s Personal Story: Choosing a Permanent Colostomy After 24 Years of Fecal Incontinence Thank you to all brave sufferers of fecal incontinence who have shared their story. I am an author – not a very famous one, but a published one – and I am a nurse, as well as a sufferer of FI since […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Coping with Chronic Constipation at 13 I am 13 years old and i have been dealing with severe, chronic constipation my entire life. My constipation was pretty bad when I was younger, considering I was young and didn’t really know what was going on with me. By the time I was 10 […]

Satyaprasad Potham’s Personal Story: IBS I am a 43 year old male,  been suffering from ibs  for last 10 years.  I was managing it with exercise and diet control upto last year.  But last year I developed ankle pain which was diagnosed as sinus tarsi syndrome which didn’t go with medication hence took a corticosteroids […]

Alissa’s Personal Story: Severe GERD at 23 I was 20 years old when I first started to have symptoms of GERD. My friends mom had just gone through her first surgery for removing 70% of her esophagus from cancer and recommended I sought a professional but I put it off. After almost a year of […]

Brian F.’s Personal Story: Managing GERD After Gallbladder Removal I was about 19 when I had my gallbladder out.  The sergeon said that it had merged with my liver.  With the antibiotics, I had lost my gut bacteria, and I was perpetually sick after eating for about 10 years.  My brother bought me a natural […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Mom Supporting her Pre-Teen Through IBS-C and Encopresis Challenges Well this story is about my child. At a few months old constipation became an issue that would come and go. Up to age 3 we treated this by the pediatricians recommendations with suppositories, v8 splash, senna a list of things. The suppositories […]

Rose’s Personal Story: Managing IBS-D Ihave suffered from IBS for many years when I was  about 25 pounds heavier than Iam now My IBS ‘”D” ‘prevelent was terrible   Ihad many accidents ,and terrible gas and bloating I was afraid of having an accident and going out to eat ment being careful   I tried […]

Leon Briggs’ Personal Story: Gastroparesis Hi my name is leon i was diagnosed with Gastroparesis  2011 my second year in college i was 19 im now 26. Ive learned a lot over these past 7 years from going to the hospital once or twice a month to hospital to now only about once every two,three […]

Stephen’s Personal Story: Finding Relief from Gastroparesis I am 43 years old and I was told I have gastroparesis about 10 years ago.   When I was around 25 is when a tumor was found in my stomach which I had removed along with half my stomach at MD Anderson in Houston because it was […]

Beau’s Personal Story: GERD I have been dealing with gastrointestinal issues for nearly a year now after having the stomach flu in November 2016.   My symptoms were often upper and lower GI- constant diarrhea, stomach pain after eating, constant acid reflux, awful nausea, headaches, vomiting. April 2017 I took a turn for the worse and […]

Beau Mason’s Personal Story: Chronic Gastritis, Acid Reflux, and Persistent GI Symptoms I am a 20 year old college student living in Iowa. In November of 2016, I got sick with the stomach flu. Since then, things deteriorated gastrointestinally. In December I was still having diarrhea and constant nausea, and so my family physician prescribed […]