#ibd warrior

[cfs-crohns-colitis-warrior]

IBD stands for inflammatory bowel disease. There are two main types of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease.

Ulcerative Colitis (otherwise known as UC) affects the large bowel.

Crohn’s Disease affects the who digestive tract, from mouth to anus.

IBD is an autoimmune disease, whereby your immune system attacks your body, and where it attacks depends on which version of IBD you have.

Both conditions can affect everyone differently, and some people manage better than others, through no fault of their own of course. Some people have long periods of remission and very little medication. Some people require long term medication. Some people require surgery.

No matter how your IBD is treated, the identifying symptoms are always the same. The symptoms include, but are not limited to:

- Needing the loo a lot, diarrhoea

- Blood in poo

- Sickness and nausea

- Stomach pains

- Fatigue

Anyone who suffers with IBD knows it’s no walk in the park, and there’s currently no cure. All we can do is try our best to manage our symptoms.

If you know multiple people with IBD, don’t expect them all do be able to do the same things or cope with their illness in the same way. IBD, just like any other chronic illness, affects everyone differently.

If anyone would like to reblog with more information, if you think I’ve missed anything or just want to add things I might not be aware of, please feel free to do so!

Happy World IBD Day!

[paintmeinblueprints]

Hey, anyone here who also has ulcerative colitis and wants to Share some stories? Im not new to the Topic but still not very on track with treatments and just frustrated. Im 22 and would love to talk to ppl my age About it.

[xinthislonelyhourx]

I can't take much of this pain any longer. I don't wish IBS or IBD(i have both) on anyone at all. It sucks big time. I had to cancel almost everything this week because of both issues.

[colitisandme]

World IBD day 🌏

I am one of the millions of warriors living with IBD. There’s numerous symptoms and when I say it’s life changing it absolutely is. Imagine having to scrutinise what you eat, drink, your own symptoms, what medications you take, the sleep quality you have, what your bowel movements are like, pain management and monitoring, if you are bleeding, if you are constipated, exhausted, the constant weight changes, the look out for infections, changes in symptoms, immune system responses, the memorising of toilet stops on a journey/ day out, the constant battles with our drs, in some countries the battles and fear over insurance issues, care costs, medication costs, the fear of accidents, the surgeries, causing some to require intervention and colostomy bags. The anxiety inducing emergency and regular hospital admissions and the constant fear that it could unmanageable. This disease kills. This disease alters lives, this disease is maddening, scary, fear inducing, causes anxiety, depression and loneliness. And yet this is happening to millions of us. Invisible but devastating. I am one of them.Today we raise awareness and stand together. Warriors always. I have met the most incredible, kind, selfless, brave, warm, compassionate beautiful people on this journey to understand my form of colitis, and IBD as a whole and they continue to fight battles of gargantuan scale. So never judge someone. You never know what a person is going through underneath the surface. Be kind always and use today to find out a bit more. Much love and light to you all.

[onemore-jiraiangel]

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I'm a Jirai blogger. An always broke university student. I speak two languages (3rd and 4th on the way). I am a medical mystery both mentally and physically (IBD and who knows what else physically; mentally a lot of things).

You can call me Angel. It's not my real name, but I use it anyway for safety. I use she/they/it pronouns. I'm fine with people referring to me as anything really.

I am fine with being called emo too. <3

Some posts may be triggering! I ask minors not to interact for my personal comfort, but I will also block minors if they interact. This blog is an adult only space.

I block liberally. I am a very accepting person but that doesn't mean that I will accept hateful people. I am in control of my own internet experience, and that means I'm allowed to block people who make me uncomfortable.

This blog isn't a "fashion jirai blog". With that being said, fashion jirais are okay to interact but please be respectful.

Loves music, anime, books and TV shows.

Favorite music artists: Chase Atlantic, Takayan, Black Veil Brides, Pinkii, The Rasmus, Linkin Park, The Relentless.

Favorite anime: Tokyo Mew Mew, Jujutsu Kaisen, Bungou Stray Dogs, Cells At Work.

Favorite books: Game of Thrones, Warriors, Survivors.

Favorite TV shows: Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Station 19, Grey's Anatomy.

[pelipper]

I wanted to share my new morning routine with you all since getting my PICC Line inserted. I was admitted to the hospital for a bowel obstruction a few weeks ago and am awaiting my scheduled bowel resection surgery. Just another day in the life of a gal with Crohn's Disease.

This is going to be my first bowel surgery, so I'm a bit nervous. I wanted to make a vlog like this with the hope that it reaches someone else in a similar position as me because I wanted to let them know that they're not alone. We are IBD warriors. 💪❤️

[scarymath]

god i wish you weren't a bot so fucking bad. we could be ibd warriors together.

[vakyaprob11]

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[remem-brandt]

Making Up For Lost Time: A Poem

“At 17 the doctor told me that I was chronically ill

And that memory is burned to the front of my mind still

I mean how could I find relief from this pain I’d been feeling?

Couldn’t absorb that it was possible

That for 3 more years I’d be living in a hospital

With drugs in my veins and family by my side

Never ceasing their prayers for the pain I couldn’t hide

From this sickness that I had been afflicted with

Never could have predicted

How close I could get

From treading the line between life and death

So every day at 17 I was dying while living

Holding my head high but ready to give in

I mean there comes a point when you wonder just how much you can endure

When the doctors are telling you they can’t find a cure

So you’re left stuck in this bed and stuck in this body

I never thought at 17 I could have fallen this ill

And still I regret all the things I had missed

Graduation and college and friends going on trips

While I was stuck in a bed or at home with this pain

And at 18 I was wondering if I’d ever feel the same

I mean one day I woke up and my body felt awful

No warning just one day I got given a handful

Of shit I never signed up for or wanted

And then one day I’m told that all of it’s chronic

So at 18 I’m getting up every day in the morning

Trying my fucking hardest just to feel normal

Hardly telling anyone what I truly felt inside

So I hid all my feelings for fear of being depressing

But I’ve decided I’m done with all of this repressing

I mean fuck it at 19 years old I was dying

At 19 years old I was lying in a hospital bed waiting for morphine

Praying for more dreams that this nightmare one given

This life I’m not living

My body was rotting from the inside out

My head and my heart were filled with such doubt

And my sister was telling me she feared for my life

Because her own baby sibling was going under the knife

So give me all of your struggles and strifes

And I will take them with ease.

I’d trade you any day

Because at least I’d have a life instead of throwing it all away

To a white room with white sheets and white pills and no sleep

So give me it all because at 20 I was dying

And at 21 I’m still trying to grasp all this shit

That three months ago I didn’t know if I’d live to see tomorrow

Didn’t know if God would grant me another day to borrow

And my heart is filled with sorrow and grief for my life

That was cut away from me like my guts with a knife

But now at 21 I’m living

But still struggling with forgiving my body and God for all of this shit

For all of these problems I’ve been forced to deal with

Nobody asked me if I was ready to take it

Every day waking up and wondering if I can make it

I’m done faking that I was ever okay

Done worrying that my sorrows would get in everyone’s way

And I’m done sugar coating

Because fuck it, I was dying

And I’m done lying

To myself or to anyone else

So no, I’m not okay and I’m swallowing my pride

And finally letting show what I’ve been hiding inside

Because at 21 I struggle to get out of bed

Every day and that much is fucking with my head

And I’m waiting expectantly for something to go wrong

Because that’s how my life has played out for so long

And at 21 I’m waiting to be free

From this disease that has its grasps so tight around me

And I’m struggling to make up for so much lost time

Because I’m trying to get back all the years I was dying”

- remem-brandt (please don’t remove credit)

[cfs-crohns-colitis-warrior]

Today is World IBD Day!

I’ve had Crohn’s Colitis officially since the end of 2015, though we suspect I may have had it all my life when we look back at certain things from my childhood. However, 2014 I think is when symptoms were really starting to hint at IBD. I think the symptoms were brought on because I was very stressed after I had just entered the work world with an apprenticeship. I was struggling with the job and was also very annoyed at the low pay you get as an apprentice while having to do extra work outside of the job you’re being paid to do.

I finally went into hospital at the end of 2015 after losing a lot of weight and being unable to get out of bed except to dash to the loo for over a month. I was originally misdiagnosed as just having ulcerative colitis by the doctor who discharged me, and I wasn’t happy about it because she was very rude, and when I asked what UC was she told me that I was young and to Google it.

The following year my dentist referred me to a specialist team regarding my mouth ulcers and they diagnosed me with Crohn’s disease after taking a couple of biopsy’s. Since then, I’ve tried numerous medications, none of which worked well enough for me, and eventually ended up having surgery in 2017. I had a loop ileostomy to cut off flow to my large bowel and see if that helped. It did, but not enough, and my large bowel was just too diseased to keep, so at the start of 2018 I had surgery for a permanent end ileostomy and most of my large bowel removed.

Since then I’ve been well regarding the Crohn’s disease until very recently, where I’ve gone into another flare and am due an MRI scan soon to see what’s happening. I haven’t been brilliantly well since I also ended up developing ME/CFS, but on the Crohn’s side of things I’ve had a good few years at least where I was very much improved. I think I’ve only had flares brought on again due to trying to do too much, which then caused my body to go quite downhill and then I kept ending up with infections last year and had many hospital visits. It’s unsurprising really that that’s caused a new Crohn’s flare up, but fingers crossed a little bit of medication will treat this one and I can start to properly recover again.

Sending out love and care on this World IBD Day to anyone suffering with it. It’s an awful, incurable disease and can take so much of peoples lives away from them. If you have IBD, I wish you long lasting remissions, medications that work, and very long periods of good health!

[ventdetourment]

All of my plans were made when I was healthy and I'll never be that again and it's fucking exhausting. Can I go abroad to validate my degree? No one knows. Can I work full time? No one fucking knows.

There's never any fucking improvement and I'm really tired. It will be the 7th treatment and nothing has worked.

[herwitchinesss]

ugh, today was the worst IBD flare i’ve ever had, hands down.

i was shaking & crying & screaming in agony curled up in the fetal position for a good 30 minutes until a combo of meds i took + some weed kicked in. really need a fairy godmother to zap and amazon giftcard to my inbox for books/comics hahaha

and next month i have to go down 25mg on my Lyrica bc 75mg is too much to get my body started on it. it caused suicidal thoughts + self harm urges to spring back up in my mind, which i’ve not dealt with in two and a half years, but the good news is that i went on a fibro message board i’m a part of and asked everyone what their experience was with going down 25mg on Lyrica since trying to just stop the 75mg caused excruciating bone and muscle pain (it felt like someone was scraping metal against my knee & ankle bones) so bad that suicidal & self harm thoughts seemed a piece of cake to deal with compared to that and i was told to basically expect a flare that seems to last a full month until my body gets used to the 50mg instead. so to prepare with that, i’m setting aside around $165 next month to buy a foot/ankle heated massage bath so i can be at home during the pain instead of at my parents, ebooks/comics/audiobooks for sit-down entertainment purposes and a few deals of epsom salt (and some fun, non medically needed bath bombs from Lush & Fizzy Fairy Apothecary bc hey, sometimes when I’m soaking, I’m just gonna want pretty colors & scents :P) for me and then i’m definitely setting aside more than i normally do for MMJ purposes. they’ve these epsom salt soaks with THC & CBD oil that i’m probably going to try to check out because i’ve a feeling they’d be perfect for feet/ankle soaks since they only come with about a cup & 1/2 in a packet, plus more CBD/THC 1:1 lotion & edibles. 

as long as i can prepare, i find i do a lot better when adjusting to meds and this time, i had no idea what i was going to be dealing with. as an aside, if you do enjoy my reviews + original writing on this blog and would like to donate something for this upcoming Month of Pain, my amazon wishlist is:  ttp://a.co/e8CAtvA and it has my email address on it for e-giftcards to any online retailer, doesn’t have to just be Amazon-related/Kindle eBooks/Audible Audiobooks.

[colitisandme]

This week has been tough. Really tough. For those who don’t know a few months ago I was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme (undetected by doctors/ anyone with eyes) for 9 years+. 😒😒😒 How they missed it I have no idea, even after a supposedly conducting blood tests etc… but they did. So amongst finding out that not only do I have Lyme (hugest positive indication on the tests ever, without a sodding horn sounding) I have also 3 YES 3 Co infections which are even more dangerous than the Lyme, oh and a sprinkling of microtoxin for good measure. 😣😣😣😣 Its been a lot to deal with. As well as navigating the horrible realisation that essentially I have been poisoned every day for 9+ years … I have had no idea it was happening. In December my Dr finally had a plan to what we were going to do, how to treat everything, the seriousness of everything, having to hold off starting a family because it could cause my body and my baby to become very ill, all the while, trying to also cajole Colin Colon (IBD) Phyllis (Fibro) and who I now call Carol (chronic Fatigue syndrome) into behaving and not throwing massive temper tantrums every 10 mins. 😒😒 oh and also trying to treat re-occurrent UTIs because my poor bladder feels like a over inflated balloon. 🎈 So this week, I started THE TREATMENT PLAN! And it has completely knocked me for 6. 🥺🥺🥺 I am so so tired, sore, bloated, achey, rashes on my body, blooming acne, SORE ACNE, dry scaly skin, sweats, pain… (so attractive) I have come up with an entire set of made up swear words to explain how I am feeling, and even taking a shower has left me leaning on the tiles, contemplating my life’s choices! I am so glad my darling husband has put together a spreadsheet so I know what the hell I am taking because my medicine cabinet looks like a Boots wonderland, and quite frankly I haven’t got a scooby what the hell I am supposed to take and when… (bloody brain fog) so please please be patient with me whilst I navigate my new normal… it’s going to be a very full on 12 months. ❤️

[xinthislonelyhourx]

I hate when people think they know it all. I told someone tonight I had IBD and they asked if my stomach hurts with it. Well I said like hell and his response was "it probably doesn't hurt a lot"

Until you know the feeling of IBD(I hope you don't have to)don't tell me how IBD feels because I've had it for YEARS to know all about it. Plus bodies are different then others so yeah. Just like my fibromyalgia it hurts so much each day that I can't function at all.

[unusual-legume]

It’s IBD Awareness week. I made a comic for it again this year. Did you know that Crohn’s disease can impact other parts of the body besides the guts?

[caleighmiller]

I realized I haven’t worn this dress in years. And it still fits me! I love the jumper style with the buckle straps. And I love switching up my wardrobe and wearing different dresses. #thursday #happythursday #selfie #mirrorselfie #smile #pink #black #dress #dressup #girlie #modeling #pose #happy #dontgiveup #warrior #illness #chronicillness #invisibleillness #ibd #crohns #gastritis #gastroparesis #pots #spoonie #strength #strength #staystrong #love 👌🏻😘🥰🖤💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/CRFemb5M7kx/?utm_medium=tumblr