My IBD Care: Crohn’s & Colitis

Ampersand Health

About this app

My IBD Care is a free, award-winning app that has been developed by experts to help people with Crohn’s and Colitis live happier, healthier lives.

JOIN FOR FREE & GAIN SUPPORT IN THE SELF-MANAGEMENT OF YOUR CONDITION:

Expert-led Courses: Build better habits with IBD specific courses relating to sleep, medication, wellbeing, physical activity and life in lockdown. Try single day activities or courses up to 28 days in length!

Personal health record: Maintain a record of your health, operations and tests to share with your clinical team.

Symptoms tracker: Track your symptoms to understand & manage your condition more efficiently.

Reminders for medications and appointments: Schedule notifications to keep on top of your care.

*New* Stool Tracker: Record your bowel movements over the course of your day, based on the Bristol Stool Chart.

Newsfeed: Access trustworthy and relevant news relating to the IBD community.

Library: Learn more about living with Crohn’s or Colitis from articles & videos from the NHS and Crohn’s and Colitis UK (CCUK).

Message your hospital team: If your hospital is not yet signed up, let your IBD clinical team know that you would like My IBD Care to be implemented in your hospital.

MORE ABOUT OUR FREE EXPERT-LED COURSES

We have created a variety of courses specifically to help support individuals in their IBD journey.

Currently, our longer courses focus on 5 major areas of self-management, including:

Sleep
Medication
Wellbeing
Physical Activity
Life in Lockdown

By taking these courses, you will be given weekly reports on your progress!

We also have a library of over 30 singles courses that involve shorter activities, videos and resources that are easily accessible at any time.

All of our courses were created by those who understand life with IBD, including both experts and patient-groups.

Some of the experts featured in the app include...
- Leading NHS consultant gastroenterologists
- IBD specialist nurse with personal experience of Crohn’s disease
- IBD Pharmacist
- IBD exercise specialist coach and stoma warrior

87% of those with IBD who used our courses for a week said they felt an improvement in their wellbeing and mental health!

One study showed that our courses improved control over IBD symptoms after only one week!

OUR MESSAGE TO YOU:

We know that living with Crohn’s or Colitis (IBD) can sometimes be difficult, lonely or tiring. It’s not always easy to manage symptoms during flare ups or know what steps to take to build a stronger wellbeing when you’re in remission.

We’re a social-impact focused company, founded by patients and clinicians who are committed to improving the health and wellbeing of those with long-term inflammatory conditions. We believe that each individual deserves proper and accessible care to support their journey.

We aim to provide you with practical tools and advice that can help you better track, manage and improve your health and wellbeing in the long-term. We hope that by joining our community, you gain more confidence in the self-management of your condition, alongside your regular clinical care.

Find out more about My IBD Care:
https://ampersandhealth.co.uk/myibdcare/

Join our online community!

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Twitter:
www.twitter.com/myamphealth

Have a question for us? Get in touch with us at [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

Like the new app. Much easier to use and great for tracking symptoms. The one thing I would like to see added is a food diary. Right now I'm having to use a separate app to track what I'm eating to try and find trigger foods and compare them with symptoms on two different apps. It would be a lot easier to see days where my symptoms were worse and be able to compare what foods were eaten in the past days or even have data saying when you eat X food your symptoms seem to get worse.

App resets every time you switch apps (including during registration) which means that if you need to check any information you lose any progress in the registration/survey/whatever process. A lot of the info this app collects (amount of excercise, amount of sleep, weight, etc) is already collected (often automatically) by other apps (google fit, Fitbit, etc) but there seems no way to link them, so you have to manually copy (with the annoyance that you can't switch apps as mentioned above!)

It's easy to use but I can't work out how to view past symptom tracker. After you take the flare up questionnaire it says you can go back to review these with clinician but I cant work out how. I have also tried to change my weight, height as it was entered wrong but it keeps bouncing back saying I'm 1ft 8inches!! I dont think so. Maybe there is a blip somewhere?? Few hitches but otherwise useful.

What's new

Minor improvements and bugfixes