I Just Said Yes
Living with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis may have a significant affect on intimate relationships. The reasons for this are as individual as we are but can include pain, fatigue, medication si...
7 Maj 201935min
You Have to Do What's Best For You
Many young people who are undergoing ileostomy surgery to treat Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis have never met another younger person with an ostomy. Gaylyn Henderson, founder of Gutless and Gla...
23 Apr 201945min
What Are People Going to Think?
People who live with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis experience stigma because of their inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The taboo topic of bowel disease can permeate all aspects of a person's...
9 Apr 201933min
Help for Parents With Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis
How does IBD affect your family? Do you know about the tools and resources that are available to help you on your disease journey? On this episode of About IBD, I talk with the Director of Patient Edu...
26 Mars 201957min
Your Body Is Depending on You to Be Assertive
It's common for people with IBD to look online for patients who have a similar disease journey to their own. For men, however, there are fewer places to find such a peer because there are not as many ...
12 Mars 201927min
I Felt a Lot of Guilt
What compels a person to share their personal journey with IBD? For Rasheed Clarke, author of Three Tablets Twice Daily, his writing began as a way to keep track of everything for himself and his heal...
26 Feb 201923min
We Are Only 1% Human With Dr Sarina Pasricha
What is the microbiome, how might it be connected to IBD and other conditions, and how can it affect health when it's pushed out of balance? Dr Sarina Pasricha of the Christiana Care Health System giv...
12 Feb 201934min
It's a Pain I Invite Into My Life
A diagnosis of IBD can take away the thing that you feel defines you as a person. This is how it felt for Megan Starshak of The Great Bowel Movement, who describes how her ulcerative colitis diagnosis...
28 Jan 201924min
