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18 December 2020 • 12:16pm
If you’ve taken a quick scroll through Instagram lately you might have spotted a new trend – the rise of the ‘bloated and proud’ brigade, revealing their swollen bellies with joy and showing the before and after effects of eating beans, or of period pain or IBS.
The fitness influencers are shedding some much-needed light and normalising what for many people is a regular and normal occurrence – bloating. But what about when bloating isn’t normal? When your GP is left scratching their head and you’ve been passed from pillar to post trying to figure out the root cause of the pain and stomach swelling you’ve had to learn to live with?