Lots of people refer to Inflammatory bowel disease as just a ‘poo disease’ because they’re aware it affects the bowels and the abdomen.
People fail to realise that it is a chronic, incurable disease which affects your body as a whole in a variety of ways.
The strain of living with the somewhat invisible illness can have an extremely negative effect on your mental health, leaving you feeling anxious, angry or depressed, often resulting in diagnosed mental conditions.
Here are 13 realities of living with Inflammatory bowel disease.