Spinach
Well, my flare-up seems to have passed and I'm back to what is normal for me. I found the most interesting thing to be my ability to add baby spinach to my daily diet. I've not been able to eat anything green or leafy for about ten years without terrible, dire consequences. But, during my flare a fellow IBDer recommended spinach. He said... Read more
If you are a regular reader of my blog then you've probably figured out by now that I'm a pretty big advocate of listening to my body and employing many of the mind/body disciplines to help me live a successful life with IBD. I've written quite a bit about figuring out the foods and diet that are best for me and my gut. I've also discussed my... Read more
I've decided that this week's blog is going to be a patient-to-patient blog. No facts, no figures, just a write-up of how me and my gut are currently doing.
The reality is, I've been frustrated by my gut these past few weeks. I'm not in a full-fledged flare, but my stools are less formed (Have had outright diarrhea for two straight days... Read more
I'm not sure if it's the holiday blues, winter blues, or what but I've been hearing some sad IBD stories from readers as well as some IBD stories of desperation. I know first-hand just how desperate you can feel when diarrhea, pain, cramps, bloating, and fatigue take over your life. It was ten years ago that my symptoms peaked - I was... Read more
Welcome to my Bog Blog. "Bog," by the way, is British slang for toilet and it seems so appropriate for an IBD blog.
If you had told me when I was twenty years-old that some day not too far in the future I would be scoping out the nearest toilet wherever I went I would have said you were nuts. But, indeed, this odd habit became part of my... Read more
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8 weeks of vomiting, nausea, acid reflux, that comes and goes. Sometimes stomach pain during/after.
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