Inflammatory Bowel Disease - All People Who Are Interested In "Ulcerative Colitis"

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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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I have ulcerative colitis (pan colitis)

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posted 01/01/2009, comments (17)

Discouraged

Hi, I hope it's okay if I do a little venting here! I've really been struggling lately with my IBD and I don't know where to turn. Since Monday I've been woken up most every morning with extremely intense joint pain in my knees and sometimes ankles and wrists (it jumps around). I'm pretty sure that it's arthritis...but it's sharp pain that's... Read more Chevron

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Student on the Varsity Swim Team. Majoring in Psychology

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posted 12/02/2008, comments (3)

The little things

This past week, my UC took a turn for the worse. I was admitted to the hospital on Friday morning, after losing 6 pounds in four days, having bloody diarrhea for over a week (sometimes as frequent as 30 times a day) and getting very little sleep. I literally had to be carried down my stairs by my older brother... It was bad. At the hospital, I... Read more Chevron

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Ali

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posted 11/04/2008, comments (8)

Stress and IBD

My doctor (and many others) have told me multiple times that stress will make my UC symptoms worse... I wouldn't say I didn't believe them before, but I never really could tell first-hand. For the past year and a half, I have been battling a flare that really seemed to come out of the blue; I responded very well to Prednisone, but after... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/08/2008, comments (3)

MY DAUGHTER THE BRAVE ONE.

MY DAUGHTER WAS DIAGNOSED THREE YEARS AGO. SHE HAS BEEN SUFFERING SINCE THE AGE OF ONE. IT TOOK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN BOSTON, MASS TO GET IT RIGHT! EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO CURE FOR THESE CONDITIONS, BRIANNA TRIES TO EDUCATE HER CLASSMATES SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHY SHE VISITS THE BATHROOM SO MUCH.

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