The Sensitive Gut

Understanding IBS

Is your life with IBS intolerable? So tell us your story.

Tracey wrote to me the other day. You asked me to tell you what my life with IBS was like.  Well, I am thirty nine years old and have had … Continue reading

December 9, 2015 · Leave a comment

My son’s IBS is ruining his life.

Penny wrote to me recently My son, Andrew, who is nearly 17 has had  bouts of diarrhoea and tummy pains since he was about 9 or 10.  These were nothing … Continue reading

November 22, 2015 · 2 Comments

Can work tie your guts in knots?

A hundred years ago, most people would work in the office or the factory from about half past eight in the morning to half past five in the evening with … Continue reading

November 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

Whatever happened to Susan?

It was late spring and yet Susan arrived dressed in a heavy overcoat, which she kept on throughout the whole of our consultation.  Her surgeon had written to me from … Continue reading

October 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

Does Facebook make your IBS worse?

About 31 million people in the UK go on Facebook every single day; over 50% of the population.  And each of them spends on average 30 hours a month, which … Continue reading

October 19, 2015 · Leave a comment

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