Well, lets just say it wasn't real fun. The nurses were all really nice and I told them I had bad veins and the gal was very careful and got the IV in first try with only minimal router rooting around. 
They wheeled me into the procedure room and the gi doc was really nice. They rolled me over to my side all hooked up to the gadgets and stuck this thing in my mouth so I wouldn't bite them! THAN they started giving me the supposed happy juice. They gave me one dose, nothing, two doses, nothing, three doses, NOTHING!!! I made them take the mouth piece out so I could tell them I'm still very much awake and they said they couldn't give me anymore!!!!! 
I consented to have it done anyways, WIDE AWAKE!! It felt like I was choking and it very much hurt. The nurse was super nice and kept telling me to breath through my nose and let me hold her hand. Luckily, it didn't take very long but it also didn't show much. I do have a hernia, where my stomach has pulled up through my esophagus but they say its common and shouldn't be causing my all the problems I'm having. I honestly don't know much about hernia's so I'm going to do some googling today but if anyone has any info, I'd love to hear it!
The nurses in the "recovery" area were amazed that I come out talking and insisting on going pee right away. They said I should be uncounsous for as much drugs as they gave me. I insisted I was fine, asked them to removed the IV so I could go pee. They were reluctant but the doctor came out and said it was ok.
So, they still can't really find anything wrong with me to explain everything. I had the WORSE tummy ache all weekend, my pain pills didn't even touch it. I'm down another 4 pounds because I just can't eat and what I do eat runs right through. But, hey, I'm healthy right?!
I have decided I'm getting off the steroids. I decreased from 7.5 mg down to 5. I'll need to stay at 5 for a week or two and then go down another step and so on so it will probably take at least a month or so but if there is nothing wrong with me, than I don't need to take all these drugs!
I think I'm going to call my internist and make an appt and see if she will switch me from zoloft to the cymbalta. I need to do some more research on it but you may have seen the commercial for it. The commercial talks about the physical pain caused from depression and that this is supposed to help. One of the side effects they say on the ad in constipation so maybe it will also help with my D.
I'm going to stay on the humira because that does seem to be making me feel better. Right now I'm taking xanax 5mg, ambien cr, zanflex 6mg (a muscle relaxer) and restoril, another sleeping pill and still not sleeping well. I'm not sure how to rectify that, any suggestions? Apparently I'm not supposed to take both the restoril and ambien at the same time, oops.
I have an appt with the crohns doc October 6th but I don't think he is going to do anything further. I'm definitely not agreeing to a colonoscopy unless they agree to general anesthesia because the sedation is the same as they gave me for the endoscope, which didn't work at all!!!!
I see the rheumy again the end of October but again, not sure what else she can do for me. I am really beginning to think I'm making myself sick somehow. However, I just don't understand how I could have chronic uveitis (eye inflammation) since last September. I don't think its physically possible to make your cornea's turn red and swell just from being depressed. I'm also not sure how one makes there joints swell to three times there normal size and to make bone erosion's happen but apparently, I can, because there is nothing wrong with me.
I have a 2inch thick file folder of all the tests they have done and while there are a few that are a little off nothing so much as to explain my problems. I guess depression could cause my bowel changes and "tummy aches" and weight loss. However, I just don't FEEL that depressed. Sure, I'm frustrated as hell and wore down but I do manage to get out of bed everyday and haul myself to the office.
I don't know, I'm just rambling now. I don't know what else I can do. If I hear one more doctor say they can't find anything wrong with me, I think I'll commit myself to the funny farm. 
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