Monthly Archives: April, 2020
A Dozen Years and 13 IBS Awareness Months: Advances for the IBS Community 2019-2020
by Nina Pan, IBS Impact founder and primary blogger for IBS Impact. Seven years ago, on April 24, 2013, I wrote a post for IBS Awareness Month that began with some reflections on my personal experiences with IBS, as well as my motivations for IBS Impact. At that time, I had been living with IBS for …
Guest Post for IBS Awareness Month: Living With IBS
IBS Impact is pleased to welcome a guest post for IBS Awareness Month. Feivel Cohen has IBS and intellectual disabilities and lives and works in Maryland (USA). He wrote this article himself especially for IBS Impact. To respect his real voice as a self-advocate, we have intentionally not edited his own choice of words and …
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month 2020
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month. IBS affects, depending on the source, at least 25 million and perhaps up to 58 million women, men and children in the United States and anywhere from 9-23% of the population in different countries on every continent of the world. In the U.S, this prevalence exceeds that of diabetes, chronic …
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