DailyTrib.com Support Community Press You can show your support of a vibrant and healthy free press by becoming a voluntary subscriber. Subscribe Now A group of kids and volunteers heads onto Lake Marble Falls for a morning of water skiing and inner tubing through Skiin’ with the Galilean. Staff photo by Daniel Clifton
As the boats headed out from Johnson Park to Lake Marble Falls, the smiles on the kids’ faces showed just how much they were looking forward to a day on the water. It was the first time many of the youths participating in the Skiin’ with the Galilean three-day event had even been on a boat, much less skis.
Although it affects roughly 15 percent of the American population, those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome often feel alone, frustrated and in pain especially when the road to diagnosis feels long.
“Despite its prevalence, it’s a tough diagnosis to make,” says Dr. Todd Garrett, internal medicine physician with Intermountain Medical Group in Cedar City. “Unlike diabetes or high blood pressure or something that you can run a blood test and get a diagnosis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome is typically diagnosed on the basis of exclusion, relying on a constellation of symptoms and ruling out potential causes. There’s just no specific test or measurement that says, ‘this is IBS.’”