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Elizabeth Roberts

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posted 11/18/2009, comments (0)

Keeping a Food Journal

I get a lot of questions from people asking me what a food journal is and why they should consider keeping one. So, I’ve decided to try and answer these questions in this Sharepost.Food journal or food diary is the *nice* name I’ve come up with so I can more easily discuss this method in polite company. But, in all honesty, I first... Read more Chevron

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MERF

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posted 11/14/2009, comments (0)

From IBD to Metastatic Cancer ...

It is difficult to say exactly when this saga began. About six years ago I simply began to feel run down and generally weak with very few specific symptoms. The simplest activities left me totally exhausted.After literally years of numerous doctor visits with a multitude of different physicians, I developed a GI bleed and was subsequently... Read more Chevron

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Lockman

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posted 06/08/2009, comments (3)

Educate Yourself about your Condition

Let's face it... nobody enjoys having IBD. It hit me like a brick wall. I found I had to plan my whole day around where the closest bathroom was. When a Gastroenterologist told me what I had, that I had the genetic marker for it & would have it for the rest of my life, I couldn't believe this was happening. But I took... Read more Chevron

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Shelly Rondeau Heller

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posted 06/03/2009, comment (1)

Some Say We Created Our Illness

I live in Boulder, Colorado, one of the most health-centric places in the world. So when I got sick with ulcerative colitis in 2000, I felt like some kind of failure. I was a wife, a mom, and in the middle of my main earning years. It was a terrible time to be sick. I spent a lot of time thinking, "What did I do to create this?" In... Read more Chevron

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every day for me it either direha or cinstpation w/ BAD pain/fain

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posted 02/21/2009, comments (22)

chronic severe pain

does any one every faint whil on the toilet and have you ever been having a day where you have had direha so bad that you feel hot on the inside and cold sweating on the out side. i often feel like i am going to die . for the past 5 days my neck is stiff jaw hurts and my abdomen hurt so bad er room dont take me seriousy and i have a... Read more Chevron

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