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Megan’s Personal Story: Searching for Answers to Persistent GI Symptoms as a Young Adult Hello, I am an 18 year old female who has been experiencing gastrointestinal disorder like sysmptoms for almost a year now, and am still on my journey to finding both answers and solutions.   Throughout the beginning of 2016, I experienced […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Severe Urgency After Hemicolectomy and Embracing Life with Confidence I’m really not completely bowel incontinent but after a hemicolectomy (removal of aprox 1′ of decsending colon for concentrated diverticulum), I began to experience very severe urgency. It is such that even with a bathroom near by, I rarely make it. Every effort […]

Scott’s Personal Story: Struggling with Incontinence After a Life-Changing Accident It was under advice, good direction, and being to the end of my rope that I am finally telling my story, or at least the side no one knows of…   May of 2012, I was hit by a drunk driver on my way to […]

Josh’s Personal Story: IBS-SIBO Survivor My name is Josh and I am a fellow IBS-SIBO Survivor. Like a lot of people I’ve struggled with the digestive disease throughout my life. I’ve been at a point where it was hard seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I have managed being a college baseball […]

Sophie’s Personal Story: Irritable Bowel Syndrome Hey everyone, I’m Sophie.  I’m 15 and have been struggling with Irritable Bowel Syndrome  for about 2 years.  I still remember how it all began.  I was sitting with my mom eating lunch at a deli, when I suddenly became intensely nauseous.  My mom said I turning white like […]

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 […]

Ellie’s Personal Story: Constipation, Diarrhea, and Stomach Pain Being constipated is something very familiar to me and has been something I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember. I thought having a bowel movement maybe once a week was normal. I had always had stomach pains, but I just dismissed them. When I […]

Michaelynn’s Personal Story: Battling Persistent Diarrhea, Weight Loss, and a Gastroparesis Diagnosis My issues started in 2009 and it all started with persistant diarrhea, indigestion, heart palpitations and nausea. I was working a full time job and struggled to make it through each day with the diarrhea. They prescribed every drug for reflux but they […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Managing IBS I’m 40 and was diagnosed with IBS in my mid-20s, after several years of suffering. Anyone who’s reading this & is losing hope or feeling frustrated & alone — I’m here to say that managing & treating IBS is possible! In my 20s, life was terrible; my stomach constantly hurt […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Managing IBS, Functional Dyspepsia, and GERD I have been reading these stories for years, thank you to all who shared. Time to give back.   IBS-like symptoms around age 18: bloating, gassiness, diarrhea, constipation, smelly and excessive gas. At age 24, I started having severe stomach pains, elevated heart rate, and sinus […]

Terri Lackey McMichael’s Personal Story: GERD I remember it like it was yesterday. It was June 25, the day that Michael Jackson died. I was watching it from the family flooring store I was working out on my laptop, and I had been drinking V-8 juice and the V-8 fruit juice when it hit me. […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Managing Severe IBS After Viral Trigger I felt I needed to write something as for years I have had mild IBS, I learnt from the age of 16 (now 28) exactly what triggered it, did all the tai chi, yoga, aromatherapy courses incase stress was an issue and had always managed it […]