GI.SURVEY.2025

"Suck that stomach in"

My dad was a Photographer in the Navy for 20+ years ad almost EVERY family photo ended with that...

Probably because he didn't know about what was to come!

Here's one everyone can participate in and SHOULD. Gut health is incredibly important as they are finding

out things today that directly conflict what we thought yesterday (see final comment)

The OI Foundation is gathering community perspectives related to gastrointestinal (GI) health and OI in a new survey.

Many community members have shared how they struggle with various GI symptoms, and the OIF wants to better understand

the prevalence of these issues in the OI community.

The survey findings will be shared in future OIF publications, guide future programs, and inform the larger OI research

community including research presentations. Responses are anonymous, and it will take approximately 15 minutes.

REMINDER: This study is being conducted internationally, international residents are eligible to participate. This is being sponsored by the OIF

I took this yesterday and it asked some interesting questions,

I probably know more than the average OIGUY, my first wife was diagnosed with stage 3 Colon Cancer at age 23....

But think about a few years back, there was a specific series of medicine, that I know many of us took that almost EVERYONE had horrible

GI side effects from.

Without naming names, this 'medicine' operated on the idea that certain pain messages were transmitted TO the brain from the stomach.

Therefore if they turned off the jets that produced this acid, they would kill the pain messages, thus decreasing their pain.

After trying both forms of the medicine I would rather deal with the pain that experience feeling like a 2yo again.

Turns out that a study published last year indicated that those pain messages ACTUALLY start in the brain,

are transmitted through the nervous system TO the stomach and excreted through the aforementioned ACID.

So it would NEVER do what it was intended to, and only caused to cause many of us extreme discomfort.

SO please take 15 minutes fill out the survey COMPLETELY and lets help the people who are trying to help us!