Living with IBD

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The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. (Rona Barrett)

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Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD (including both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), can affect many aspects of your life

Living with IBD can be a challenge, but one which, with support, can be met. You may experience pain, unpleasant and stressful symptoms

When you are diagnosed as having IBD, you begin a journey, you have a name for your symptoms, and you have a basis from which to move

It can sometimes be difficult to talk about your IBD to other people, including your family, friends and even your healthcare practitioners