Ibs - Blog Posts

I was messing with the different fonts on my drawing app and this happened.

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join a community for all the girlies with gi issues.

warning: please be patient as i continue to work on it.

what are your thoughts on ibs diagnosis

78% of people reporting to ERs due to IBS have chronic gastritis.

population studies on microscopic colitis are rare, but have found that rates are much much higher on a population level than previously assumed

the symptoms labeled as ibs (diarrhea and constipation with no obvious flags for inflammatory bowel disease) are often treated as an issue of simple dietary intolerances, or as a psychosomatic condition, and people with ibs are told to follow various diets, or to "reduce stress."

these diets tend to be high fiber, which could literally kill someone whose actual issue is gastroparesis, or could severely aggravate microscopic colitis. i know that when i was trying to eat high fiber, my symptoms were completely unmanageable, and switching to a low fiber diet is the only thing that's helped at all. the food intolerance stuff can be really helpful for people who do have rare food intolerances, but for people who actually/also have autoimmune gastritis, it wastes time that could be spent monitoring for gastric atrophy, metaplasias, and precancerous lesions.

the worst part of this is that things like microscopic colitis and h-pylori related chronic gastritis are treatable, either with steroid medication or antibiotics to kill the h-pylori. but if you're dismissed with "dietary changes" or "reduce stress," then you're not getting treated for conditions that can cause really serious tissue damage and increase your cancer risk.

basically ibs is a "fuck you get out of my office" diagnosis

Hot girls have GI issues pride flag

light pink: is girl

hot pink: hot

red: my tummy hurts but im being so brave about it

brown: oh my god im about to shit myself

April is IBS Awareness Month. If you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), you are not alone – IBS is common with prevalence estimated at 10% to 15%. Yet many people remain undiagnosed and unaware that their symptoms indicate a medically recognized disorder.

and ibs otter, which i made mostly for me lol. i really want her name to start with cy…. cypres…. cyril….. hmm

Having conditions affecting the digestive and excretory systems is just so isolating.

Because even in semi-disability-aware spaces, talking about symptoms relating to the GI and excretory systems is still treated as TMI, as gross.

Even friends and family members are grossed out just seeing us put laxative in our water, or run to the bathroom all the time, or sit weirdly because of an immensely painful gas bubble.

And we internalize this shame so much that when we actually have to describe our symptoms in a medical setting, we hold back, and use euphemisms, because we're so used to having to do so.

It's so so isolating.

Yk when u have an entire fucking assignment to complete and ur body just decides that now would be a good time for ur IBS to flare up cause ur stressed then the flare up makes ur stress worse? Yeah me neither 💅