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Angela’s Personal Story: A Lifelong Battle with IBS and SIBO — “Be your own advocate” My symptoms started when I was around 8. Spent many nights alone on the floor in the bathroom feeling like I was going to die. I had cramps like I needed to have a BM but couldn’t go. I started […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Struggling with GERD and Anxiety My story is feeling like the end of my life is near. This stupid anxiety is horrible. It all started with being hurt with my back on a job and eating badly-pizza, carry-out, eating late at night; not exercising. Was taking Pepcid AC more frequently and chalking […]

Hi everyone was I pleased to find this page as I’m at my wits end iv even starting goin to church ( which is something iv never done before but I do believe in my angels) iv suffered badly with EDS and everything that goes with it and as a child with unkind cruel parents […]

Anonymous Personal Story with fecal incontinence: “DO NOT QUIT” Several years ago I began having episodes of fecal incontinence at night while asleep. Sometimes every few months or multiple times a week. I chalked it up to the frequent diarrhea I had been having since my gastric bypass in 2002. Then I began having minor […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Living with GERD Since Childhood Both my parents have stomach deceases so I was bond to get one. My started when I was 10 or 11 years old. I had caught the regular flu bug but it was different it also had a pain that I could never describe. After I had […]

Anonymous Personal Story: “I’ve learned to ignore the ignorance of people” I’m a female in my 40’s and I first developed gastrointestinal problems in 2008 after about 3 viral gastro bugs at end of 2007. I first noticed IBS-D when I used to be out exercising daily and I’d have to run back home because […]

I was 14 when I was diagnosed with GERD. I was healthy, a varsity soccer player, a straight-A student, and I almost never missed a day of school, until GERD came into my life. I was playing in a soccer game on a hot day, when I had difficultly breathing, chest pain, and I started […]