Meet patients who have successfully used IB-Stim to help reduce their functional abdominal pain symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome.

This page contains unpaid testimonials from real life IB-Stim patients or parents/guardians. These personal experiences reflect their particular outcome and results may vary from person to person. NeurAxis does not recommend or suggest the use of its (PENFS) IB-Stim device for uses beyond those that are cleared by the U.S. FDA. See “Important Information” for IFU, contraindications, warnings and precautions.

Avery, 11 years old, Indiana

IB-Stim Testimonial Avery

Before IB-Stim

  • I was not very good…I was in pain every single day 24/7.
  • It was not fun to go anywhere, and I started to lose a bunch of weight because I wouldn’t eat.
  • I lost 15% of my body weight and it wasn’t fun.

After IB-Stim

  • I could do the normal things that I did again.
  • When I got the device, I could feel the waves going, and then after like a minute it stopped, and you couldn’t feel it anymore.
  • It helps a lot!

Avery’s Mom, What Avery’s mom saw before and after IB-Stim:

Before IB-Stim

  • She kept losing weight and would not eat.
  • Everything was based around her and how she was going to be feeling having to miss work to help her.
  • It was very stressful. We were just ready for answers after trying other treatments that weren’t helping.

After IB-Stim

  • When the Doctor told us about this device, I wanted it because I wanted her to be better. I realized we have to try this and trust the doctor and we made the right choice.
  • Within days I saw the difference in her…It sounds scary, but it helped her immediately, and it was so worth it.
  • It was a wonderful experience. I am so thankful that IB-Stim was created because I don’t know where we would be right now without it.

Victoria, 17 years old, Kentucky

IB-Stim Testimonial Victoria

Before IB-Stim

  • I dealt with pain from constant bloating and nausea. I couldn’t go a full day without taking a nap.
  • The IBS symptoms I was suffering caused really bad anxiety during this time.
  • I felt so bad if I ate so I was just like I’m not going to eat.

After IB-Stim

  • By that first week I was already able to eat more.
  • By the second week I had absolutely no pain. It had been a year with that pain and I was finally able to eat normally again.
  • This treatment has completely changed my way of living.

Victoria’s Mom, What Victoria’s mom saw before and after IB-Stim:

Before IB-Stim

  • Leading up to Victoria receiving the device she went through a year of testing.
  • It just is at times a feeling of hopelessness because you go to one appointment and think oh, they’re going to figure it out, and then you leave with that gut-wrenching feeling that they don’t know either.

After IB-Stim

  • My child went from bloating and being sick from drinking water to us crying… because she is eating a whole meal.
  • My advice to a parent is absolutely give IB-Stim a try because you can literally see it working within two weeks.

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*The IB-Stim is a percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulator (PENFS) system intended to be used in patients 8 years and older with functional abdominal pain associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia (FD). The IB-Stim is intended to be used for 120 hours per week, using 1 device per week for 4 consecutive weeks, through application to branches of Cranial Nerves V, VII, IX and X, and the occipital nerves identified by transillumination, as an aid in the reduction of pain when combined with other therapies for IBS and FD. FD patients for whom IB-Stim is indicated have also been shown to experience reduction of nausea symptoms. DEN180057/K252024.