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2024 IBS Awareness Month: The IBS Dilemma

International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD) launches #IBSDilemma, a social campaign for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month this April. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects up to 5-10% of individuals worldwide, making it one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders. Although IBS does not shorten a person’s life span, living with IBS presents a myriad of […]

311 Biofeedback, Incontinence, And The Patient’s Perspective

307 Research Priorities For Fecal Incontinence The Patient’s Perspective

103 Behavioral Treatments For IBS

Personal Story

Dee’s Personal Story

Dee’s Personal Story: Living with the Daily Struggles of IBS I have been ill for exactly 1 year this month. My problems started out of the blue, i fell ill one night and never got better. I had diarrhoea, stomach and back pains so bad I couldn’t stand, nausea and couldn’t eat anything for 6 […]

Kyle Staller, MD

Award for Clinical Science Investigator Dr. Kyle Staller’s research interests include clinical and epidemiologic research in neurogastroenterology and motility with particular interest in chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fecal incontinence, eating disorders, and women’s health in functional GI diseases. His research has been published in medical journals across the spectrum of GI, and he […]

Survey Corner

What Do Surveys Tell Us? Surveys are an important way to learn more about the experience of living with a digestive disorder. View results of surveys conducted by IFFGD and learn what investigators are finding as they search for answers to help those with digestive disorders. View IBS in the Real World Publication Results of […]

A Personal Account of Living with Incontinence

Presented as “Biofeedback, Incontinence, and the Patient’s Perspective” at a symposium on Treatment of Bowel, Bladder, and Pelvic Floor Disorders, held June 23–26, 2005, at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI This article also available in Spanish. A personal account from the Founder of IFFGD I would like to thank Jeannette Tries for the invitation to be […]

The Patient’s Perspective

Presented at the IFFGD Symposium, Advancing the Treatment of Fecal and Urinary Incontinence Through Research: Trial Design, Outcome Measures, and Research Priorities, November 3–5, 2002, Milwaukee, WI The topic that I will be discussing today is that of research priorities for fecal incontinence from the patient’s perspective. Much of the research for fecal incontinence has […]

2nd Consensus Conference Report

IFFGD Professional Meeting: Advancing the Treatment of Fecal and Urinary Incontinence Through Research: Trial Design, Outcome Measures, and Research Priorities The full text of speaker presentations at this meeting have been published in the journal Gastroenterology, January 2004, Supplement, Volume 126, Number 1. Conference Cosponsors: International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IFFGD); and Office of […]

Anonymous Personal Story

Anonymous Personal Story: Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Hello, I have interviewed my younger brother about his disorder, Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. He is 11 this is his story not mine. How do you feel when a episode occurs? What are your personal symptoms? My stomach feels […]

Personal Story

Michael’s Personal Story

Michael’s Personal Story: “The diagnosis of GERD is a dysfunctional one” This body is 62. I am fit, slim and active. In the past I was much the same. My mum tells me I almost died within weeks of my birth in Bristol UK. I was throwing up all the time; every feed was emptied […]