This professionally facilitated group is for adults with these two disorders, as well as for members of their families.  The group generally takes a vacation during July and August.   For details about their monthly evening meetings or any other meeting in North Carolina or South Carolina, you may click here to see their local web site or call the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (NC/SC office) at 704/332-1611 or toll-free at 877/632-1611 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  (Click for overview of Gastrointestinal Disorders resources)

A group of people with celiac sprue or related disorders as well as their familes gather quarterly.  To learn about their meetings, call a group member at 366-3493 or at 588-6842 on Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. or on weekend days. (Click for overview of Gastrointestinal Disorders resources)

Mooresville IInflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Support Group (2001) (1311)

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

HealingWell.com Resource Center  of 4

This web site provides well-organized information, internet based support resources, news, a bookstore, "ask the doctor", and other stuff for those with inflammatory bowel disease.  You can choose between the following categories (and easily link to other diseases as well):

Last checked 4/29/03; originally posted here 4/10/98. (Click for overview of Gastrointestinal Disorders resources)

Want to find more links?  Click below to find Medical information on the web Methods to search the entire web

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.