ibs

In addition to ME/CFS, do you have a diagnosis of any of the following conditions? Endometriosis Fibromyalgia Hypermobility/Ehlers Danlos syndrome Interstitial Cystitis Irritable Bowel Syndrome Jaw pain - Temperomandibular Jaw Dysfunction Migraine Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Postural...

https://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-mother-s-cancer-misdiagnosed-as-irritable-bowel-syndrome-1-4895603

Open access at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nmo.13559

(Not sure exactly what these are, but results are due I think?) PRINCE Primary: Integrated GP Care for Persistent Physical Symptoms - a Feasibility & Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (PRINCE Primary) Sponsor: King's College London Collaborator: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust...

An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here. Paywalled at...

An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here. Open access at...

Paywalled at http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/472/eaap8914 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/12/20/gut-microbes-could-soon-diagnose-and-explain-ibs-and-ibd/#.XB4Uu_wuD5B

Some of you may have heard about Dr. Pimentel. He's done some great things for IBS sufferers and is a good example of a doctor who cares. Link to the interview It's worth a read. Basically he's saying that physicians are about 10-20 years behind the current research.. Very similar problems to...

Perhaps there is something interesting or more likely annoying (!) in this. Free full text: https://bjgp.org/content/early/2018/07/30/bjgp18X698321 Research Patients’ perspectives on GP interactions after cognitive behavioural therapy for refractory IBS: a qualitative study in UK primary and...

https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(18)34766-8/abstract Article in Press Rome Foundation Working Team Report on Post-Infection Irritable Bowel Syndrome DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2018.07.011 Abstract Background & Aims The existence of post-infection irritable bowel...

Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28477-9

From 2015 but to be presented in a talk in July at the Society for Academic Primary Care conference: https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2018 https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2018/abstract/actib-trial-assessing-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-irritable-bowel one of the co-authors is Susan Windgassen...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29100842 (paywalled) 2018 Jan;3(1):17-24. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(17)30338-2. Epub 2017 Nov 1. Faecal microbiota transplantation versus placebo for moderate-to-severe irritable bowel syndrome: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, parallel-group...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29464501 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12602-018-9397-8

Note: deals with 'chronic fatigue' rather than specifically looking at ME/CFS - the high baseline level of 'chronic fatigue' in the control group suggests it's a broad definition that's been used. Posting here anyway as my own initiating infection was Giardia...

UK Study showing a link between low vitamin D status and IBS symptom severity. Written by Dr Bernard Corfe Oncology lecturer at University of Sheffield. This piqued my interest. Its calling for more RCT information but suggests that vitamin D status needs to be tested alongside all patients...

I have been reading a lot about BPS and MUS theories lately. Not really because it affects me personally, but because I find these theories weirdly interesting and also a bit shocking to read. I thought it was interesting to look at other MUS categories, to see if we maybe could learn something...

Positive and negative affect mediate the bidirectional relationship between emotional processing and symptom severity and impact in irritable bowel syndrome " Abstract Introduction Individuals with IBS report higher levels of psychological distress compared to healthy controls. Distress has...

Title says it all really. I normally don't have gut issues but due to recent over-exertion I not only crashed but it also brought on a painful, swollen abdomen with constipation, which is now starting to ease off. This pattern has happened to me before, most notably 14 months ago following a...