Re: When is time to give up?- long, but please read
02/02/05 10:35 AM
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Reged: 02/01/05
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Dear Beth, no. I do not think you are obsessive. I grow weary of the search for relief from pain,too. I have tried diets, herbs,imaginery, stress control, I even tried not eating. But every 6-8 weeks the pain becomes unbearable and the vomiting won't stop and my poor husband has to take me to the emergency room for a shot or two of demerol or morphine depending on who the doc is. I was diagnosed with IBS at the age of 16. I am now 57 and my pain is becoming increasingly worse. All my tests (and I have had them all) are negative. Although one time my test came back positive for pancreatitis but the doc decided I just get so sick with IBS that it changes my blood values. He also told me he and his colleagues agreed I had the worse case of IBS they had ever seen. At my worst I have spent 2 weeks in the hospital hooked up to an IV with 100mg of demerol being given every 4 hours and at my best, well, is there a best?? Right now every meal I eat, especially the first one, causes me severe pain, the upside is I have lost 11 pounds, which I can afford. And it's not just food,if I drink a glass of water on an empty stomach, this will send me running to the bathroom in agony. I had found a doc that allowed me to give myself the demerol injections because I am a registered nurse. This spared us the stress and expense of the ER trip and at $2,000.00 per visit we were grateful. But he is not really comfortable doing that so I don't know, probably back to the ER. Sorry, didn't mean to ramble, hang in there .There must be answers for us somewhere, we can't give up!!
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