Search Results for: food+intolerance/malabsorption

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 […]

Anonymous Personal Story: A Lifetime Battle with Intestinal Obstructions and Pseudo-Obstruction I was born with my problems. Doctors wanted to give me a colostomy at birth. My parents said no. I had chronic pain always. Sometimes I could eat, and sometimes I couldn’t. I never had normal bowel movements. When I was able to go, […]

Anonymous Personal Story: Struggling with IBS, Bloating, and Body Image Hi there, thanks for reading this. I am a 20 year old woman who was diagnosed with IBS about three years ago, though I have suffered from it all my life and simply assumed that my weird bowel patterns were normal. As a little girl […]

Rle’s Personal Story: A Husband’s Battle with Gastroparesis and Other GI Disorders This is actually a story about my late husband , who just passed away on June 17, 2013 at 50 years of age. He had wasted away to 94 pounds, he used to be 210 pounds, 5’11”.He literally died from having chronic diarrhea […]

Stephanie’s Personal Story: Living with Gastroparesis and Finding Purpose as a Health Coach Hi, I am a 31 year old woman who was diagnosed with gastroparesis in 2008. I’ve suffered with digestive issues on and off from the age of 19, shortly after undergoing laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis and ovarian cysts. At the age of […]

Sheila’s Personal Story: Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Gastroparesis To start of with I am a diabetic and take insulin on a daily basis. Back in 2007 I was dianosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome which took 2 years to come to this conculsion. Many trips back and forth to the doctors and many test. I never […]

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 […]

Gabriel’s Personal Story: Hirschsprung’s Disease My nephew, Gabriel, who is now 6 years old, was diagnosed with Hirschprung’s disease  when he was born. Only three days after he was born doctors had to perform an emergency descending colostomy because of the magnitude of his obstruction. Everything went wrong from there. We live in Colombia, South […]

Sophia’s Personal Story: Her Battle with Ileal Atresia and Pseudo-Obstruction Sophia Grace Dummer was born on May 20, 2011 at 7:00 AM, at 32 weeks gestation.  She was baby B in a set of triplets.  At 2 days old she was diagnosed with Ileal Atresia and had her first surgery.  We were then told that […]

Brigitte’s Personal Story: Living with Severe Gastroparesis After Hiatal Hernia Surgery 7 years ago I had surgery to fix a hiatal hernia. Straight away I was unwell and within 3 months I went back to the surgeon complaining of problems with my bowel. I was told it was because I was still recovering from my […]

Nicolle’s Personal Story: Diagnosed Gastroparesis After Severe Weight Loss I was a young, fun, athletic 37 year old, relatively healthy, living in the heart of Chicago, with an amazing job and awesome social network, when my weight started to suddenly plummet…and rapidly. Test after test, revealed nothing except a clinically deficiently low level of vitamin […]

Veronika’s Personal Story: Idiopathic Gastroparesis I wanted to tell my story of gastroparesis to try and help other people that are going through it. I had idiopathic gastroparesis, which means the cause was unknown, but the doctors believed it was caused by some damage to the vagus nerve. At the time I was in fifth […]