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Same here...I'm terrible when it comes to chocolate and pastry/cakes...devoured a huge Snickers bar the day before, and had an ENORMOUS craving for cheese pizza all of a sudden!!

It all came back to haunt me yesterday though, when everything seemed to get stuck in my 'plumbing' (despite taking a laxative AND using a suppository to spur my bowels into motion...these are times when I almost wish I have the big 'D'!), and I was reduced to tears in the toilet!!! I'm ok now, although that 'episode' was accompanied by some bleeding.

It's just not fair!!!

I often get very very constipated...hard lumps in my tummy (lower left) which I can actually feel! It's worse than going into labour...constantly bloated so much so that I sometimes look 5 mths pregnant...my waist is normally 22" when normal but has been known to go up to 30" when filled with wind and crap... I'm trying to put all this delicately, but it's just impossible! Sometimes the pain is so bad that my attendance at uni gets affected...I just cannot move...literally!

Ah well, I've been good today though...no meat, refined foods, not had any dairy products...gone back to being vegan again, and am likely to stay this way for awhile...until the next big choc-attack...I still find it hard going in the bog (being on Quetiapine...an anti-psychotic known to cause constipation as a side effect, doesn't help), but not as bad as when I indulge...my main problem is making sure I have enough liquids...I have been religiously drinking lots of fennel/chamomile tea though, and taking those peppermint caps

Wishing everyone happy colons,
Charme

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