Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | REPORTING IN - 1/18/07: Day 2

Hi everyone,

So today started out alright, got worse.. then a *lot* worse. Oy!

Woke up and wasn't feeling great - My body was achy from the gym and for the past 3 days or so my rear has been really sore from what I assumed was a bruised tailbone or something.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with Oatbran, raisins and cinnamon with Vanilla Silk Soy Milk.

--> Driving into work, get stuck in traffic for an hour. Every bump in the road is agony on my poor tushy and my stomach is all churny. Roads are awful from snow, call in to work to say I can't make it. <---

Snack: 2 oatcakes with peanut butter and a cup of unsweetened applesauce.

---> Pains in rear get worse when I go to pick Adrian up from school, can't even sit in the car and every step I take is painful, make a doctors appointment <----

Snack: UFO - no sugar, but probably higher in fat than I should have done.

---> Major onset of D. Earlier in the day, have lots of BMs and figured maybe the extra fiber I've been trying to get was just "cleaning me out" a litle, but by afternoon it turned to D and had bad cramps and all that <---

Feeling too poorly to eat, no lunch.

---> Go to the doctor, he looks at my tailbone and says I have an infected abcess (sp) and gives me prescription for anti-biotics and anti-fungal. Says he will be referring me to a surgeon tomorrow and that I will have to go in for surgery to have abscess and surrounding tissue removed. <---

So now I just really want some sugar, am only comfortable lying on my side on the bed and am mighty irritable. I ended up having some leftover turkey meatloaf with carrots and peas for dinner so I could take my medications. Not overjoyed as I have *never* done well on anti-biotics and expect quite the adventure. Also not thrilled at the idea of surgery... let alone sugery on my poor little bum! After all the D, the fissure I had surgery on and all that hasn't it been through enough??

Called in to work, started to cry when I was talking to my supervisor. My New Years resolution was to take fewer sick days, and now this. It also means that the big "Winter Ball" I have been looking forward to for months which is on Saturday I will have to miss, so I am really bummed. I bought a new dress and everything.

Bah!

Steph

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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
IBS-D,pain.

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