Almost a year ago, Marisa Lauren Troy and I started a new series on The Crohn’s Colitis Effect YouTube channel called The Realities of IBD. One of the videos Marisa created was Traveling with IBD and an Ostomy. Since technically we are in Spring, heading into the Summer, I thought it might be a good […]
In May of 2015, during Digestive Disease Week ( DDW ), I had the honor of hosting the webcast Preparing for Procedures and Surgeries for the IBD Social Circle. The webcast panelist included Amber J. Tresca of AboutIBD.com, Dr. Megan Costedio of the Cleveland Clinic, Ryan Stevens of CrohnsGuy.com, Dr. Muhammad Ali of The University of […]
I have long been a proponent of listening to what your body tells you. All those little aches, pains, strains, niggles and general “something doesn’t feel right” moments are just Mother Natures way of focussing your attention on problems that need to be addressed. In the case of Crohn’s Disease, those “problems” can range from […]
Asking for help is something that can appear so much harder to do when you have Crohn’s Disease or any other form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). I think that this is because IBD sometimes makes us creatures of extremes. One one hand, the disease takes so much from us that we refuse […]
I am probably going to get all kinds of grief for writing this post, but what the hell. One of the symptoms that is normally associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease is weight loss. In all honesty this can frequently be a drastic and dramatic weight loss. However, I think it appropriate to cover a little […]
Today is Tuesday, May 19th 2015 and it’s World IBD Day! What exactly does that mean? No, it’s not a day to celebrate Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Honestly, outside of all the great people that I now consider to be part of my IBD family I can’t think of another reason to celebrate IBD. It’s a […]
I am pleased and proud to announce a new IBD video series, The Realities of IBD Together with Marisa Lauren Troy of JournalingIBD.org, The Realities of IBD will talk about living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease ( Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis ) on a daily basis. Marisa, who has been living with IBD ( Ulcerative […]
Times change and people change with it. Living with Crohn’s Disease can force you to re-evaluate a great many things in life. It can put you outside the comfort zone of the general population who consider talking about Inflammatory Bowel Disease as something to be avoided. Over time, I have discovered that whilst I still […]
Dr. Peter Higgins of the University of Michigan IBD Center is our special guest this month. Dr. Higgins talks to us about the latest IBD research that is going on.. New IBD drugs that have just come to market Ozanimod and Mongersen.. Can you have both Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis? The 23andMe Study, The […]
listen to ‘As human as the next guy…’ on audioBoom It must be said that as I sit and type this guest blog post, I could quite happily just scoff down a few hand-fulls of pain killers and sleep for the next week or so. It is one of those occasions where an associated symptom […]
