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Gut FEELING

I started having symptoms around September 2015. Initially my symptoms would swap between being constipated and having diarrhoea – it would be like that for a few days, and then I would be absolutely fine. Having three small kids, I thought maybe I just had a bug, or hadn’t been eating properly or regularly, or I was lacking sleep.

But it reached a point where I was running to the bathroom 10 times a day, and some blood would come out. That’s when it started to get a little more frightening and the doctors began to do more tests. But the problem with the flare-ups – and this is good

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