JIM’S PERSONAL STORY
It started about a year ago when I was shopping for food. I felt sick to my stomach and all of a sudden I pooped
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It started about a year ago when I was shopping for food. I felt sick to my stomach and all of a sudden I pooped
I am 63 I’ve had GI issues all my life. I experience difficulties in having a bowel movement. It’s a CHORE EVERY MORNING. I setup
Off and on pain for years. Seems to be triggered by anxiety and depression. Sitting in church today and can’t focus because my stomach and
I’m an 85 year old male with a life long, on and off problem with a, “lazy bowel.” Pooping was, thank the Lord, a problem
I’m 39. I’ve had a history of Doabetes, high blood pressure and now bloating chest pain and constipation mainly. Docs did an ECG and said
I have fecal incontinence. I don’t get the urge to go but what happens to me is I’d get ready for the day and go
My journey into this nightmare started when I started peri menopause. I didn’t know then that dropping estrogen weakens the sphincter muscle. Around that time
My childhood, no bowel problems. However, as I got older, here they came. First, I would be normal in my bathroom routine, then one day,
I contracted COVID-19 in 2021, and by 2022, I had lost 100 lbs and was taking in as few as 200 calories a day due
Hello, i am a 40 year old male who has been struggling with IBS for about 7 years. I always had a difficult relationship with
For 15 years, I was misdiagnosed as having IBS. Though my symptoms worsened over time, the attending physician did not perform further tests to see
I’ve had IBS for over 25 years. It’s robbed me of having any type of semblance of a normal life. 43 years old now and
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