It's all about ME (just like a man!)
07/02/05 04:38 PM
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Anthem
Reged: 10/01/04
Posts: 76
Loc: Phoenix, AZ
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Although comparison is not a very good trait, I am wondering if there is even any relevance in trying to determine where I fall or stand (or kneel?) in the spectrum of IBS patients. When I go to my GP, he shouts "eat fiber" and I shout back "I am about to overdose on FIBERCON as it is, and I burp Metamucil!"
Anyway, if anyone feels any tendency to reply to this self-centered silly post, that's fine.
I have IBS-A and I go like a big grandfather clock pendulum. I can start off June with very firm well shaped stools, minor left abdomenal discomfort, and some gas after meals. If it would stay this way, I'd donate my hunky body to science and be a happy man. But about every 30 to 45 days, I seem to swing from this into "D", and I have yet to find a culprit food that puts its hands in the air and (like in old Perry Mason TV shows) confesses on the witness stand "I did it! I made Anthem sick! Boo,hoo, hoo..."
If I realize that it is a full fledged "D" flare-up, I hit it with Immodium (since I already take Bentyl every day as a safe guard). This seems to work pretty well, and I end up with "C" for a few days, then the system seems to slowly return to being in a state of firm stools again with small abdomenal discomfort and gas.
Sometimes the "D" flare-up is awful, and I feel like I have to go to the bathroom every few minutes. That makes me want to die, and I wish God would take me away from this life. But Immodium seems to help that, but I never know when to stop taking it.
Well, being a typical man, I am wondering where I might fall in the realm of IBS sufferers. I also have occasional TMJ problems, and (thank god) fall in the TMJ-lite crowd, even though I'd rather have a vampire bat bite me in the neck than suffer a TMJ flare-up.
Well, thanks for reading this far. Happy Holiday.
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