Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 2022
...symptoms of bowel cancer are: Bleeding from the bowel Change in bowel habit (such as unusual episodes of diarrhoea or constipation) Abdominal pain or weight loss Some of these symptoms...
31st March 2022
Results found for: constipation
World IBD Day 2022
...react to harmless ‘friendly’ bacteria that everyone has in their large bowel. Symptoms of ulcerative colitis include: Diarrhoea (however constipation can be common with proctitis, inflammation of the lining of...
16th May 2022
Stamping out the stigma surrounding our guts
...people to seek help, and not suffer in silence. James’s Story – The gut & brain can overshare: James has IBS with a mixture of constipation and diarrhoea. Read his...
6th March 2023
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 2023
...of bowel cancer? The most common symptoms of bowel cancer are: Bleeding from the bowel. Change in bowel habits (such as unusual episodes of diarrhoea or constipation). Abdominal pain or...
5th April 2023
World IBD Day 2023
...Symptoms can include: Diarrhoea (however constipation can be common with proctitis (inflammation of the lining of the rectum). Bleeding from your bottom. Urgency. Abdominal pain. Extreme tiredness. Sore eyes, painful...
19th May 2023
Living with a digestive condition during Ramadan
...people understand and some don’t. Some have a misunderstanding of what IBS is and consider it ‘just a tummy ache, diarrhoea or constipation’. Comments like “Why are you making such...
20th April 2023
The World’s First Diverticular Disease Awareness Week!
...constipation) Mucus or blood in the stool The pain is commonly focussed on the left side of the abdomen (belly) where the diverticula most often occur. In a small number...
2nd October 2023
Pearl Avery
...GI patients I saw, 58 were given or had a firm diagnosis which resulted in treatment or referral. The most common diagnosis was of constipation and haemorrhoids (n=11) respectively. These...
17th August 2023
Amy’s story – Crohn’s Disease
...nothing ever really got better. It wasn’t until I started junior school that my symptoms really escalated. I experienced debilitating stomach pains, constipation, diarrhoea and urgency, sores around my bum,...
18th October 2023
Seren’s story
...violently sick. We went into a different hospital this time, as we’d moved, and they gave her some constipation relief and sent her home. Later that evening, John rang me...
25th November 2023
