FreeTums

Hi and welcome to my brand new blog I am launching on freedom from digestive disorders. My name is John, I'm 38. As I write this, I still suffer from chronic IBS, which I first recognised as an issue back in 2010. It's been seven long years of increasing famine, and since then I have lost almost 10kg. That's swinging between 60-61 kg. I am 187cm tall (over 6ft 1in). This condition, as anyone suffering from similar issues will know, can feel terrible, especially around times of social gatherings like Christmas which has such a focus on eating, drinking and shared pleasure. Because life likes to throw just as many challenges, digestive-disorder sufferers can also have other unrelated problems which exacerbate the psychological challenge of staying positive and a pleasure to be around. Because life also puts fellow sufferers on our route, we often hear a thousand-and-one titbits of advice and haphazardly (and expensively) try many of them, confused and lost between con...