Re: Anthem, I know I had said I was stable...
08/05/05 09:28 PM
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Anthem
Reged: 10/01/04
Posts: 76
Loc: Phoenix, AZ
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and I was for a little while. And then the month of july came and everything went, um, down the toilet! I've been back and forth between C and D for the entire month of july and beyond. I hope my "stable" moniker didn't throw you for a loop. I thought I had things figured out, but I was wrong.
I had a good month of July with weeks of "torpedo" stools, and I ate the same dull stuff every day. Then suddenly for no reason I started having gas one day really bad (uh oh) and then it lead to "D". I have no idea why. I took Immodium and it shut down, so now I am in the quiet zone, and hope the pendulum of the IBS-A is now going to swing back the other way (away from "D").
But I get really annoyed at people here (and I love them all but I still get annoyed) desperately trying to find THAT ONE TRUE TRIGGER (like the Holy Grail) that started their "D", and if they can just find it, they will never again have a "D" attack.
I love you all and want the same thing, but I just do not think life with IBS is that easy. We do not evevn know what causes it, and I simply do not believe it is controlled 100% purely by what you eat. The latest theories say it is a mind-gut communication dysfunction. So eat your little hearts out, all the most pure food in Eden, but I think there is still missing knowledge (maybe we need to follow Eve and seek the answer from the Tree of Knowledge?). I don't think we know enough about IBS to think we can "out eat" it. If you have an attack, it might be something you ate. True enough. But the reason can be totally oblivious to us!
I remember (was it King George the Third?) who had a rare disease that caused madness and his urine to be blue! This is historical fact. Well, at the time, the way to evaluate a person's health in the 18th century was to see how firm their stools were. His stools were firm, so the best physicians of the period were stumped. But they assumed that since King George was Royalty, this explained why his urine was blue. Of course, now medical science has a name for his rare disease and knows all about the cause and why the urine was blue.
Sometimes as far as IBS goes, we are still in the 18th century and our physicians are just as clueless.
Perhaps in IBS this slang expression and rude bumpersticker is LITERALLY TRUE:
"S**T Happens".
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