Today, March 30th, is #NationalDoctorsDay 🥼but the gratitude lives far beyond ☝🏼 day. Living w/ #IBD has shown me what it truly means to be cared for by a team. None of them treated just a disease. They treated me. To every doctor who has carried me through this life…
THANK YOU 🙏🏼

📣 This week: FIBROTARGET–IFCCA webinar

Living with IBD fibrosis? Join this free online webinar to explore how research and patient voices can lead to real improvements in care and quality of life.

📆 2 Apr • 🌐 Online
Register➡️: https://loom.ly/RuUAO_M

#IBD #Fibrosis #PatientVoice

Chronic colitis reshapes colon stem cells in ways that can accelerate tumour growth Researchers showed that chronic colitis leaves a long-lasting epigenetic memory in colonic stem cells, persisting for more than 100 days after recovery in mice. This memory is marked by durable AP-1-l...

Colonic stem cells keep a hidden 'memory' of past inflammation, making future tumor growth more likely - even after recovery. 🧬🦠 www.news-medical.net/news/2026032... #IBD #Cancer @nature.com

Chronic illness means your past self feels like someone else. #grief #ibd #past

United Therapeutics Holds in Buy Zone After Pullback United Therapeutics entered IBD's Big-Cap 20 buy zone on Mar 27, 2026; UTHR was down ~10.8% YTD vs S&P 500 +6.3% and saw intraday volume jump 28% (source: IBD, Yahoo, Bloomberg).

United Therapeutics Holds in Buy Zone After Pullback: United Therapeutics entered IBD's Big-Cap 20 buy zone on Mar 27, 2026; UTHR was down ~10.8% YTD vs S&P 500 +6.3% and saw intraday volume jump 28% (source: IBD,… 👈 Read full analysis #UnitedTherapeutics #Investing #StockMarket #IBD #BigCap20

Ensign Group Near Buy Point, IBD Flags Stock Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) was flagged near a buy point by IBD on Mar 27, 2026; institutional investors should seek sequential occupancy and margin improvement before treating the signal as durable.

Ensign Group Near Buy Point, IBD Flags Stock: Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG) was flagged near a buy point by IBD on Mar 27, 2026; institutional investors should seek sequential occupancy and margin improvement before… 👈 Read full analysis #EnsignGroup #StockMarket #InvestmentTips #IBD #FinancialNews

Slept from 6pm to 6:30am, body shut down finally and let me sleep. Feeling off, but here is a cute ass pictures of the trouble makers. #dogsofbluesky #catsofbluesky #rundown #chronicillness #ibd #mentalillness #imfine

Daily Spoon Count 6/10
Pain Level 2/10
Slept like the dead, but now I can't wake up. LoL. I have a relaxing weekend ahead, but starting next week I'll be prepping the side hustle for tourist season. Be a work in progress today and everyday #ibd #spoonie #chronicillness

If you are an #IBD or #IBS sufferer, download my aoo now! It's free for 2 weeks, so you have nothing to lose. I'm an independent developer so every download / sale helps me so please support a fledgling developer.

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#IBDDiary #Crohns #Colitis #CrohnsAndColitis

Study finds faecalibacterium prausnitzii EXL01 strain directly induces IL-10 production by CD14+ human monocytes and reprograms the energy metabolism of these cells under both healthy and inflammatory conditions.
🔗 https://ow.ly/KVyh50YyMal
🏷️ #IBD

Daily Spoon Count 6/10
Pain Level 2/10
Slept like the dead. I gotta get some things done today, hate errands. Tired of winter. Getting a little shack wacky. Be a work in progress today and everyday #ibd #spoonie #chronicillness #fatigue

The image presents a bar chart showing bowel urgency (BU) improvement in inflammatory bowel disease patients following induction with various advanced therapies, alongside clinical, biochemical, and intestinal ultrasound improvements.

🚨 Bowel urgency improves in ~50% of #IBD patients after advanced therapy

🔸 50.9% patients achieved urgency improvement
🔸 Mean NRS score ↓ −2.3 points
🔸 Linked to clinical remission
🔸 Correlates with ↓ CRP & fecal calprotectin

Read more on UEG Journal 👉 https://bit.ly/41240VA

Medication management in #pregnancy and #lactation isn’t simple — and #pharmacists are central to patient safety.
Don’t miss practical strategies at the 2026 #IBD Pharmacist Virtual Symposium.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4kYXE2C

🎥In this patient story, Noemi Stefanucci, a young IBD advocate from Italy and member of the IFCCA Youth Group, looks back on how the condition has shaped her life, decisions and career path.

Learn more➡️https://loom.ly/yJfqEyE

#IBD #DiseaseAwareness

Which bookstores are doing something fun for Independent Bookstore Day?

#bookstores #booksky #IBD #indiebookstoreday #independentbookstores

Vitamin D alters the profiles of IgA- and IgG-bound gut bacteria and immune repertoire-gut microbiota networks, induces pDC-B cell BAFF signaling, and increases α4β7+ B and T regulatory cells in #IBD
@cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social @mayocliniccancer.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Daily Spoon Count 6/10
Pain Level 2/10
Well, not much sleep, up early. NGL I'm not McLovin it. Might work on editing in a writing project I've been working on all winter. Dunno but floofy dog won't let me go back to bed. Be a work in progress today and everyday #ibd #spoonie #chronicillness

Low FODMAP Shepherd’s Pie Recipe For Crohn’s Make low FODMAP shepherd’s pie with lean mince and lactose-free mash. Gentle on IBD, big on comfort, freezer-friendly and weeknight easy.

Feeling the comfort food blues? This low FODMAP shepherd's pie is here to save the day! Tasty, gut-friendly, and freezer-friendly. Give it a go! #IBD #LowFODMAP https://crhns.uk/lowfodmapshepherdspierecipe

Review outlines how molecular disease descriptors may be implemented as future clinical treatment targets in #IBD. Concepts of cellular/molecular measures of inflammation and target pathway engagement are discussed, as is the role of AI in enabling this development.
🔗 https://ow.ly/LmE750YyLTe

Daily Spoon Count 7/10
Pain Level 2/10
This is my baseline, as good as it gets. Stelara shot today, so we'll see if it knocks me down like it usually does. Grief counseling tonight. It's been a huge help. Be a work in progress today and everyday #ibd #spoonie #chronicillness #widowed #grief

IBD Pro: IBD Pharmacist Virtual Symposium

Medication management in pregnancy and lactation isn’t simple — and #pharmacists are central to patient safety.
Don’t miss practical strategies at the 2026 #IBD #Pharmacist Virtual Symposium.
Register today: https://bit.ly/4kYXE2C

Taking Antibiotics Can Change Your Microbiome for Years Antibiotics help your body fight infection, but they also can throw off your gastrointestinal track. Some drugs are worse than others.

Antibiotics Can Change Your Microbiome for Years

Antibiotics help your body fight infection, but they also can throw off your gastrointestinal track long after you've stopped taking them. bit.ly/4buKxmF @uppsalauni.bsky.social #microbiota #antibiotics @naturemedicine.bsky.social #IBS #ibd #IBS

Chronic illness is not knowing what your body will allow long term. #ibd

Daily Spoon Count 6/10
Pain Level 2/10
Can't wake up. Had a great sleep though. Been avoiding social media and news, had to protect my mental health. Sometimes you just need to put yourself first, right? Be a work in progress today and everyday #ibd #spoonie #widowed #chronicillness

A red background with the title gutsy walk and 30th anniversary! We see a graphic of a 30 balloon, a group of people ready to walk and wheel and a picture of Alison‘s fundraising page that says welcome to Alison McGauley‘s family page. There is also a note that reads Over 322,000 Canadians live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Please consider making a donation for our walk on June 7th to help stop Crohn’s disease & ulcerative colitis. Thank you! Alison

It's the 30th Anniversary of the Gutsy Walk!

Please consider donating to help fight IBD, a chronic disease that causes physical and emotional pain for many individuals & families.

crohnsandcolitiscanada.akaraisin.com/ui/gutsywalk...
#fundraiser #walk #IBD

📈 Increased genetic risk of #IBD is associated with a more severe disease course measured by inflammatory markers, gastrointestinal surgeries, hospitalizations and drug use. It is mediated by disease extent in Crohn’s disease, but not in ulcerative colitis.
🔗 https://ow.ly/2ymY50YxA6R

"Can I lie on my front with a s#toma?" is a question that worries almost every new #ostomate. My latest post looks at the practicalities and how to feel secure again: advocatinghealth.com/2026/03/20/c...

How have you adjusted your sleep habits since surgery? 💕✨

#Stoma #Ostomy #IBD

A new review published in 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 & 𝐇𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, led by APC Microbiome Ireland (UCC) with global collaborators, highlights AI for IBD: endoscopy, molecular data & wearable monitoring.
#IBD #AIHealth #PrecisionMedicine #Gastro

At the @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social #MyIBDLearning #OrangeCounty conference, we heard from #IBD experts from @ucihealth.bsky.social @ibdcedarssinai26.bsky.social , Hoag and CHOC 🏥

✨Managing Flares & New Technologies
✨How To Live Happy & Healthy w/IBD
✨Surgical Management
✨Mental Health & IBD

1 IBD+PSC flare, 2 months of prednisone, & several insurance denials later, this song is still unfinished 🖤 it’s getting there though!

find me here —> linktr.ee/flyawayrage

#newmusic #independentartist #originalmusic #chronicillness #health #ibd #crohns #psc