Well, this is my third post, I believe, and I have an interesting question to pose...if anyone thinks they can answer it, it may really help me. My last few posts have been about my success with the use of psyllium fiber for my "ibs" symptoms. And now that I look back on it, I don't know if I have actually had this problem, if it's imagined, or if I have had an on-again, off-again digestive problem due to anxiety. Quick history: I had open-heart surgery when I was four years old, due to being born two months early, and have been physically fine ever since. It's the mental part that got me. When I got old enough to start worrying (at age 12) I diagnosed myself with everything. So, basically, I had thought I had heart problems, leukemia, AIDS, you name it. When I turned sixteen, I thought I had a stomach problem and became obessesed with it until I went to college. In college, around the age of twenty, I felt a little bloated and tender on my lower abdomen on the left side...and so, every day, I pressed on it, convinced I would find a tumor. I did have weird bowel movements, mostly constipation and I went to the doctor a lot, was given physicals even had blood work. Same diagnosis: healthy. The weird thing was...I never had side effects that were worse than abdominal discomfort and the annoying constipation. After years and years (that would be ten years--I'm now 26) of this crap (no pun intended) I have been using fiber like the doctors told me and all of this has gone away. But, here's the thing, I am so used to worrying about my side that I think there is discomfort even when there isn't anything. No more tenderness and I'm regular, I can eat anything I want...I think I may have caused my own illness with worry. The doctors told me that obessesive worry can also cause colon disorders. I don't know. WHo thinks I'm crazy? (Oh, I'm still regular, my bloatedness has cut down about 80%, not a lot of gas and I haven't had to take fiber EVERY day, either.) We don't have a history of colon cancer or colon problems in my family, but we do have a history of ulcers. From worry. Yeah. Go figure. Let me know your imput.
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