5 Things You Didn't Know About IBS
Digestive health.It's one of those slightly taboo topics that we always brush off as 'feeling sick' or 'stomach-ache', when in actuality, we're often referring to having spent the whole morning sitting on the toilet.Or not having gone in a week and consequently walking round with an inflated beachball in our intestines.I do appreciate why digestive health doesn't get the discussion it should. Because it's not exactly pleasant dinner party conversation. But if there was greater awareness and more of a dialogue surrounding the many issues we may suffer from in our lives that concern our digestion, then I don't think I'd have suffered in silence with my IBS symptoms for so long.
Girls: We Need To Talk About This
Us girls are pretty good at talking about most things. I know me and my girlfriends bare no bones when it comes to chatting about relationships, break-ups, work-place disputes and general celebrity gossip.We do like a good chin-wag, let's face it.But there's some things that for some reason, we just don't talk about.Whether it's because we're embarrassed, or we feel we'll be judged, or that it's just not commonplace.I know from personal experience, these topics are subjects that I used to feel very conscious about mentioning, for fear of how the other person would react.
