Category Archives: IBS
16 Years and 17 IBS Awareness Months: The Work Continues 2023-2024
by Nina Pan, IBS Impact founder and primary blogger for IBS Impact. Eleven 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 …
Guest Post for IBS Awareness Month: Navigating IBS and a Hypersensitive Body
by Lindsey Wondolleck IBS Impact welcomes a guest poster this week. Lindsey Wondolleck lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, two young children, and their German Shepherd and cat. She has a degree in nutrition but is currently working in the insurance industry because it is a more flexible job that’s remote and can …
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month 2024
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month. IBS affects, depending on the source, anywhere from 5-15% of the population in different countries on every continent of the world. In the U.S, this prevalence exceeds that of diabetes, chronic kidney disease, asthma, adults with chronic heart disease, and, by far, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with which …
IBS Impact’s Top Countries and Top Posts of 2023
For the New Year, IBS Impact is once again participating in the common December-January blogger tradition of highlighting popular posts and interesting blog statistics from the year just past. This blog reached readers in 63 countries and territories during 2023. The cumulative total is169 for the 12 years WordPress has made country statistics available to …
Updates to IBS Impact.com Main Website, December 2023
IBS Impact has recently completed the latest round of updates to many pages of our main website, IBS Impact.com, The home page linked above and the advocacy page, IBS page, research page, IBS studies page, resources page, family and friends page, IBS and children page, and links page, all have additions or updates of content …
15 Years and 16 IBS Awareness Months: Step By Step 2022-2023
by Nina Pan, IBS Impact founder and primary blogger for IBS Impact. Ten 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 …
Guest Post for IBS Awareness Month: A Bit of Hope
IBS Impact welcomes a new guest blogger this week. Billy Robinson lives in the UK and has suffered with IBS since he was a teenager. Now in his 30s, Billy has received treatment for IBS in the UK, Europe & Australia. Billy has learned to embrace being stuck a home with IBS, by enjoying hobbies …
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month 2023
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month. IBS affects, depending on the source, anywhere from 5-15% of the population in different countries on every continent of the world. In the U.S, this prevalence exceeds that of diabetes, chronic kidney disease, asthma, adults with chronic heart disease, and, by far, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with which …
Clinical Trial: Writing Study for Teens with IBS, Carnegie Mellon University, February 2023
The following paid university-based online/phone research study for adolescents with IBS ages 12-17 has recently come to IBS Impact’s attention. We encourage qualifying youth with IBS to participate and for parents or guardians who may be reading this announcement to alert their children to consider this opportunity. Additional information from the original posting indicates that …
IBS Impact’s Top Countries and Top Posts of 2022
For the New Year, IBS Impact is once again participating in the common December-January blogger tradition of highlighting popular posts and interesting blog statistics from the year just past. This blog reached readers in 59 countries and territories during 2022. The cumulative total is 168 for the eleven years WordPress has made country statistics available …
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