Latest Ileostomy Podcast Episodes
Men's Health and IBD
About IBD - June 25, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThere tend to be more women than men who share their journey with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis). The reasons are challenging to uncover, but what's clear is that more can be done to raise the visibility of men living with an IBD, ostomy, or other digestive...
"Boo Can't Poo!" With Iris Wang, MD
About IBD - June 04, 2024 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr Iris Wang, assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Associate Program Director of the GI fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and Amber Tresca discuss the stigma surrounding gut health and poop. Dr Wang shares the experience of writing a chil...
The GEM Project With Chantel Wicks
About IBD - May 14, 2024 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat is being done to help prevent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the next generation? The Genetic, Environmental, Microbial (GEM) Project is a research study from Crohn's and Colitis Canada (CCC) focused on finding possible causes for Crohn’s disease by following healthy people who are at ...
The Harms of Copay Accumulators
About IBD - April 30, 2024 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDid you notice that suddenly one year you started paying more for your healthcare? Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are sometimes treated with medications that are expensive. Manufacturers create programs to help patients afford these drugs. In the beginning, these payments from assistance...
IBD and Somatic Therapy With Abri Bernstein
About IBD - April 16, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPeople with IBD are more likely to live with anxiety, depression, or other mood disorders than people who don't live with one of these conditions. For that reason, caring for mental health is as important as caring for physical health. But it doesn't always work out that way, as patients may not...
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month With Dan "Dry Dock" Shockley
About IBD - March 26, 2024 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDiagnosed with attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis (AFAP), retired Navy veteran Dan "Dry Dock" Shockley shares his remarkable journey of service, diagnosis, and advocacy. Following his diagnosis, Shockley became a passionate advocate for early detection and reducing the stigma associated w...
Making Crohn's Disease Funny With Matt Nagin
About IBD - February 13, 2024 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWe can hold two truths: Crohn’s disease is funny. It is also not funny. I speak with Matt Nagin, who has many talents, but we focus on his work as a comedian and actor living with Crohn’s disease. Our discussion focuses on how people need laughter and comedy in their lives. Yet, living with an i...
Amber's Year in Books 2023
About IBD - January 30, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat did you read over the past year? If you made a reading goal: did you hit it? The books I read in 2023 included biographies, fantasy, fiction, and romance. Plus, I had several authors who live with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis on the show this year, so I read their books as well. He...
IBD Connect With Lisa Fournier
About IBD - January 16, 2024 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsA diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, IBD) affects the entire family. When it’s a child that’s diagnosed, it changes so many things and brings a host of challenges. Families experience many unmet needs related to IBD. My guest is Lisa Fournier of IBD Con...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and IBD With Stephanie Brenner, LCSW, MSW
About IBD - December 19, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMy guest is Stephanie Brenner of Chronic Illness Psychotherapy. Stephanie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has experience in working with clients with chronic illnesses. She has also taken on a variety of roles in GI space, including previously serving on both the advisory team for the P...
IBD in the Hispanic Community With Oriana Damas, MD
About IBD - December 05, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAs an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and the Director of Translational Studies for the Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Dr. Damas sheds light on the misconception that IBD only affects certain ethnicities. Her ...
Positivity Beats IBD With Josef Miller
About IBD - November 28, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat is it like to be a teen living with Crohn’s disease? If you’re like Josef Miller, you channel the challenges of the diagnosis and management of IBD into action. Josef has written a book about his experiences, entitled "The Purple Rose," and created an initiative called "Positivity Beats IBD...
Designer $hit: A Microbiome Love Story With Saffron Cassaday
About IBD - November 14, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat options are you wiling to try to manage your ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease? How about putting someone else’s stool into your own colon? Fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) — using stool from a donor to repopulate bacteria in the colon — are being studied for use in treating inflamma...
Coping With IBD While in Military Service With Dr Anish Patel
About IBD - November 08, 2023 22:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhat do all the new oral drugs available for treating IBD have to do with military service? Being diagnosed with IBD might mean leaving the military for some service members. Part of the reason is that it’s not possible to be deployed while receiving a drug that’s an injection or an infusion. Bu...
Learning to Accept IBD
About IBD - October 24, 2023 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBeing diagnosed with a chronic condition is a major adjustment. Digestive conditions like IBD (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) wind up affecting every part of our lives. Learning to accept the ways in which the disease affects life can be helpful. But it’s important to make the distinc...
IBD and Menopause
About IBD - October 17, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMenopause is a topic that's not well understood in general and there's even less information when it comes to menopause and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis). October is World menopause Awareness Month. World Menopause Day is on October 18 every year. The p...
Having a Screening Colonoscopy
About IBD - September 26, 2023 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsColon cancer is being diagnosed more frequently in younger people. It’s now recommended that most people get a screening colonoscopy at the age of 45. For people who have a family history of colon cancer, the first screening should be when they are 10 years younger than the family member was wh...
Managing IBD Diet and Lifestyle With Clemmie Oliver
About IBD - September 12, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDiet does matter in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Not only in how it affects the digestive system, but also in overall health. Adults with IBD have greater incidences of heart disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, kidney disease, liver disease, and ulcers than do people without...
Where to Invest Money: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - August 08, 2023 04:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people from all ethnic and cultural groups. In this limited series, we'll explore how inequalities in the healthcare system affect people from diverse backgrounds. One of the barriers to addressing disparities is money. It's an unfortunate fact that the...
We Have to Invest in the Health Wealth of Our Nation With Brooke Abbott: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - August 01, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHealthcare is political. That's why it's important to push legislators to ensure care is available and accessible to all patients, regardless of their socioeconomic status. Brooke Abbott, of the Crazy Creole Mommy Chronicles and co-founder of IBDMoms helps illustrate the aspects of public policy...
I Wanted People to Know That They're Not Alone With Fasika Shimeles Teferra, MD: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - July 25, 2023 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people from all ethnic and cultural groups. In this limited series, we'll explore how inequalities in the healthcare system affect people from diverse backgrounds. IBD is still considered rare in some parts of the world, but incidence is increasing. Fas...
I'm Letting You In With Cedric Pulliam, PhD: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - July 11, 2023 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people from all ethnic and cultural groups. In this limited series, we'll explore how inequalities in the healthcare system affect people from diverse backgrounds. What is it like to not have anyone on your medical team that looks like you or understand...
I Want Someone Who's Going to Understand Where I'm Coming From With Selvi Vasudevan, MD: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - July 04, 2023 04:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people from all ethnic and cultural groups. In this limited series, we'll explore how inequalities in the healthcare system affect people from diverse backgrounds. Nutrition is a major component of managing digestive disease. Yet people living with Croh...
You Have to Genuinely and Authentically Connect With Leaders in This Space With Melodie Narain-Blackwell: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - June 27, 2023 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people from all ethnic and cultural groups. In this limited series, we'll explore how inequalities in the healthcare system affect people from diverse backgrounds. Why do women of color encounter so many barriers when accessing care? Where are the space...
These Disparities Have Been Going on for a Very Long Time With Dr Aline Charabaty: Healthcare Disparities in IBD
About IBD - June 20, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIn this limited series, we'll explore how inequalities in the healthcare system affect people from diverse backgrounds who live with IBD. Why is there a lack of people of diverse backgrounds who live with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis represented in clinical trials? Why are there so ma...
Pregnancy and IBD: The PIANO Study With Uma Mahadevan, MD
About IBD - June 06, 2023 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsPregnancy while living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) feels scary. But thanks to the groundbreaking Pregnancy Inflammatory bowel disease And Neonatal Outcomes (PIANO) study, there is now so much more data and information to help moms and their doctors make decisions. Dr Mahadevan began th...
Yoga for IBD With Desiree Schmidt
About IBD - May 23, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDesiree Schmidt, a 500-hour yoga instructor and owner of a personal training business, shares her passion for helping people with chronic illnesses, which is inspired by her own experience with Crohn's disease. She discusses how yoga has been key in her journey, both physically and mentally. A...
An Ostomy Is a Beginning With Brad Watson-Davelaar
About IBD - May 09, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBrad Watson-Davelaar, founder of Gaming for Guts, shares his experiences in living with Crohn’s disease and how he found support and community through his IBD journey. He talks about his ostomy surgery and how for him, it is a beginning rather than an end. Brad describes the upcoming fundraisi...
I Pooped My Pants With April Michelle Harris
About IBD - April 25, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhen is the last time you pooped your pants? Amber speaks with April Michelle Harris, who lives with ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), for over 13 years. April shares her journey, from her initial diagnosis to her struggles with depression and anxiety, and how she h...
RunPee: The App That Tells You the Best Time to Use the Bathroom During a Movie
About IBD - April 18, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsGoing to a movie can be a frustrating experience for anyone with a digestive or urinary condition. Not only are the bathrooms sometimes far from the theaters, it’s difficult to know when to duck out if nature calls. Enter RunPee. The RunPee app is designed to help moviegoers know when the best t...