Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | This is a project we're just pulling together...

The support group boards are pretty new and they were a separate website so they didn't get much traffic. Now that they're a part of the new big site I think that will change.

Basically, we're trying to have a place where people can come together online and find others in their hometown areas to form support groups with. If there's already a group in your area, it will have its own forum (like the Payson, AZ group). If you don't see a group in your area, you can post your city/state/province, or see if there are already others in your area posting, but not yet in a real life group.

Then, when there are enough people in one regional area to form a group, we'll help them out. We'll send them info on how to start and run a group, and break out a new forum for them so folks just in that group have a way to communicate online. We'll post the meeting times/places, and whatever other info they'd like.

I'm not sure how this will go - hopefully there will be enough people in the same places to make the real life groups a possibility, and having their own forum will help them keep the groups alive.

- Heather

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