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@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialTraveling with IBD can bring a worry many people don't talk about: needing a restroom, fast. ✈️🚻
Our Chief Education, Support and Advocacy Officer, Laura Wingate, spoke with @usatoday.com about how people with IBD can plan ahead and travel with more confidence. Read more: https://bit.ly/4i9M3xF
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialThe Foundation offers a support group for IBD patients conducted entirely in Spanish. Meetings provide a space for Spanish-speaking patients to connect, ask questions, and share experiences with others managing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Learn more and join: https://bit.ly/3RtkXoB
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialThanks to the Foundation’s advocacy, California just became the second state in the nation to pass a law making it easier for many IBD patients to get timely medication dose changes without extra insurance hurdles! Let’s help more states follow suit—join our advocacy team: https://bit.ly/4r3PRTt
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialPro pickleball player & Foundation social media ambassador Rob Nunnery looked like the picture of health. But behind the scenes, he was battling severe, invisible chronic pain while competing on the global circuit. We teamed up w/ @everydayhealth.bsky.social to share his story https://bit.ly/4y5NgvD
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialThis National APP Week, Foundation board member Rocio Castrillon and her nurse practitioner, Janette Villalon, share what it means to have a true partner in IBD care. Thank you to our sponsor, AbbVie, for helping us spread awareness this National APP Week.
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialIt's Malnutrition Awareness Week - learn why IBD increases the risk of malnutrition, what signs to watch for, and how patients, dietitians, and care teams can work together to catch and manage it early. https://bit.ly/4dviDY4
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social📣 Kids with IBD deserve better treatment options.
Tell your member of Congress to call on the FDA to speed up its review and approval process for pediatric IBD treatments. It takes 30 seconds 👇
🔗 https://bit.ly/3TnjnYw
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialNot every stomachache is cause for concern. But recurring digestive symptoms diarrhea, fatigue, abdominal pain, or rectal bleeding could be your body signaling something more. Dr. Moss breaks down the signs of IBD, including Crohn's disease & ulcerative colitis symptoms.
https://bit.ly/45n8JDF
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialBig news for the IBD community: UnitedHealthcare will drop prior authorization for many services starting Oct. 1 — including colonoscopies. This builds on advocacy the Foundation has led, including a 2023 rally outside UnitedHealthcare to protest barriers to preventive care. 🙌
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.socialImagine hiding a part of yourself every day. That's IBD stigma for so many people.
🏕️ Camp Oasis campers: less embarrassed about their IBD
💬 96% of Support Group members talk more openly
📱 Half of Let's Go There viewers are more open
Every number = someone who feels less alone
https://bit.ly/4vZ0Nnk
