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MESSAGE BOARD
We created a message board at IBDLiving.com so that we have a place to meet others with IBD,
their families and friends and to give us all an opportunity to share. We hope that you will join us
and post your personal experiences and information so that others may read it, relate to it, and
learn from it.
By clicking the link above, you will be able to see more stories of people with IBD, get the latest
articles and news, find IBD recipes and nutritional info, and much, much more. Come in and join
us!!!
With thanks and appreciation.
Amy and Casey
IBDLiving Legend of Abbreviations for the Message Board
BBL: be back later
BD: Bathroom Dash
BIL: Brother in law
BM: bowel movement
BTW: by the way
C: constipation
CD: Crohn's Disease
CIB: Carnation Instant Breakfast
C-scope: colonoscopy
CT: CAT scan
D: diarrhea
DC: Dear Child
DD: Dear Daughter
DH: Dear Husband
DS: Dear Son
DSD: Dear Step Daughter
DSS: Dear Step Son
DW: Dear Wife
Dx: diagnosis
ETA: edited to add
FIL: Father in law
GI: Gastroenterologist
Hemmies: hemorrhoids
HTH: hope this helps
Hx: history
IBD: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
IBS: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
IMHO: In my humble opinion
IMO: in my opinion
KWIM?: know what I mean?
LOL: Laughing Out Loud!
LLQ: Lower left quadrant pain
LMAO: laughing my arse off!
LRQ: Lower right quadrant pain
LSP: Left Side Pain
MIA: missing in action
MIL: Mother in law
OMG: Oh my Gosh!!!
P&PT: prayers and positive thoughts
PITA: Pain in the arse
Pred.: prednsione
Preddy: prednisone
Ring of fire: feeling of fire around the
rectum from diarrhea
ROFL: rolling on the floor laughing
RSP: Right Side Pain
Rx: prescription
SBFT: Small Bowel Follow Through
Xray test
Scope: colonoscopy
Scrip: prescription
SIL: Sister or Son in law
SO: Signifigant Other
S-scope: sigmoidoscopy
TI: terminal ileum
TIA: thanks in advance
TMI: too much information
TTYL: Talk to you later
TTFN: tah-tah for now!
UC: Ulcerative Colitis
URQ: Upper right quadrant pain