Reged: 01/17/07
Posts: 20
Loc: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Hello
I've just purchased Heather's book, "The First Year". I've suffered from severe Obsessive Complusive Disorder since I was 15 and since early 1996 have had problems with my stomach as a result of the anxiety that the OCD caused. TO cut a long story short I was successfully treated for my OCD in June 2005 and with that I believed that my stomach problem would disappear; it has not. For years my GI system has been in a mess but it is only over the last few years that I realised that a lot of the time the GI distress would occur completely independently of the anxiety.
So that's my background. The specifics:-
I am suffering from severe abdominal pain to the point that it is completely maddening. I haven't been able to sleep properly for months and I can't remember the last time I woke up with out my lower abdomen in a great deal of pain.
I also suffer from terrible flatulence. Pretty embarrassing, it's not like I do it around people but it's very uncomfortable and it's depressing when you just seem to be farting all the time.
Although I used to suffer from bad bouts of diarrhoea that has eased up now and I get constipated quite frequently. (Isn't it great talking about this stuff?) When my stools are looser I never seem to "empty" my bowells completely and the same goes if I'm constipated.
What prompted me to buy Heather's book and do something about this was the my last visit to the doc's. My blood coutn was perfect. And once again I was told I was suffering with a functional disorder. (I had an upper GI test in 2004 and an abdominal ultrasound.) So my mental health is pretty good my physical health is good but I feel terrible.
IS there hope for me? The book is pretty uplifting and I'm a patient man.
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