Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a complex illness that affects people in different ways.
Some strategies and ways of managing it can also differ from person to person, but we have a lot to discuss, and I hope this page can serve as a platform from which to explore various IBD topics.
Table of Contents
For the Newly Diagnosed
- What Is IBD?
- Busting IBD Misinformation (video)
- Check With Your Doctor First…
- Colonoscopy Prep tips
- Extraintestinal Manifestations in IBD
- Not All Support Is Good Support
- The Stuff You Don’t Hear About IBD
- To the Newly Diagnosed: Don’t Believe Everything You Read
- 3 Things I Wish I Had Known About IBD
Diet and Nutrition
- Are plant-based diets healthy?
- Diet and IBD: What the research says
- Enhancing Nutrient Absorption
- Facing the Fear of Food
- Fiber: Friend or Foe to someone with Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
- Finding a Registered Dietitian
- Hospital Food: Making the Best of It
- IBD Nutrition TIPS
- Natural Diarrhea Relief Using Green Bananas
- Protein – the What, Why and How
- Transitioning to a Plant-Based Diet: Tips from an Expert (Q&A with a Registered Dietitian)
- How to Track Your Nutrient Intake
- Vegan Meal replacement
- Veganism 101 for IBDers and Ostomates – my guest post for The Great Bowel Movement.
- Vitamin B12: Are You Really Getting It?
Humor
- Crap Ostomates Say: Ostomy Humor (video)
- Hitler Reacts to the Confusion about IBD and IBS: PARODY VIDEO
- Laughing at Crohn’s Disease
- What Causes Crohn’s Disease? (Humor)
IBD Awareness
- #getyourbellyout – the campaign that changed IBD advocacy
- Gusty Walk: One Giant Step – Crohn’s and Colitis Canada walk 2014
- Gutsy Walk 2015: Durham Region – Recap of my 2015 walk
- Gutsy Walk 2016: Durham Region – Crohn’s and Colitis Canada walk 2016
- HealtheVoices 2017 (video)
- Healthevoices 2018: Saying Hi to Old Friends for the First Time! (video)
- IBDAdvocacyTag (video)
- IBD Advocates Having Fun in Orlando for AIBD2016 (My trip to Orlando with 16 other IBD advocates!)
- IBD Advocates Take Home the Prizes! – WEGO Health Activist Awards winners for 2015
- IBD Advocates Unite at P2PEP16: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (I presented at this event)
- IBD Hall of Fame Event – Toronto, 2014
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Canada vs. USA (Facebook Live Chat video)
- Talk About Hidden Disabilities
- WEGO Health Awards 2017 winners
- World IBD Day 2014
- World IBD Day 2015
- World IBD Day 2016 – Our Community
- World IBD Day 2017 – I’m not ok, because you are not ok.
- World IBD Day 2018 – Why IBD Advocacy is Important
Managing IBD
- How I Use Evernote to Manage My IBD
- Using Technology to Improve Your Quality of Life
- I Was in Remission (and why that didn’t matter)
- Natural Diarrhea Relief Using Green Bananas
- Preparing for Surgery – What to Bring
Mental Health
- Depression, Suicide, and IBD
- Facing the Fear of Food
- How a Simple Word Swap Can Change Your Perspective
- Laughing at Crohn’s Disease – Using Humor to Cope with IBD
- Nine Years with Crohn’s Disease
- On Being Judged
- Posttraumatic Growth
- The Life of a Ghost with Crohn’s Disease
- Everything You Do Is An Achievement: Living with IBD (video)
Opinion Pieces
- “But you don’t look sick…”
- Of Mice, Men and IBD: Why Misleading Headlines Are Harmful
- When Censorship Becomes Discrimination
Other Topics
- Canadian Disability Tax Credit (some people with IBD qualify for this)
- IBD Round Table Special – Meet Eric of Vegan Ostomy – Answering questions about IBD
- Perianal disease: My Timeline
- Universal Studios with an Ostomy or IBD : Tips (w/ video)
- Walt Disney World Resorts with an Ostomy or IBD: Tips (W/ Video)
- Why not a J-Pouch? (w/ video)
Patient Stories/Q&A’sIf you want to read stories from other people with IBD, check out my interview series HERE.
- Accepting a New – but in Some Ways, Better – Normal (my featured story for Crohn’s and Colitis Canada)
- IBDAdvocacyTag (video)
- My Patient Story published on Trusted Therapies
- My Patient Testimonial from WCET (Cape Town) (video)
Research Topics
- Diet and IBD: What the research says
- Environmental Risk Factors for IBD
- Fiber: Friend or Foe to someone with Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
- IBD and Junk Food – “I can’t get no, satisfaction”
- Of Mice, Men and IBD: Why Misleading Headlines Are Harmful – How the media distorts IBD research
Travel
- My First Trip with an Ostomy and IBD (Cape Town, South Africa) (video)
- My trip to Orlando for an IBD conference (AIBD2016) (video)
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