Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Thanks, everyone! (And replies to everyone)

First of all, thanks for all the encouraging and sweet words and thoughts and whatnot. I'm feeling a little better today... I think you guys cheered me up pretty good.

Tissy/Christie - It's funny that you mentioned the fibro. It's one of those things where I've been wondering for the past few months if I should ask my doctor about it, but I don't have the painful spots that are usually used as part of the diagnosis. Plus I feel really weird mentioning it in the first place, because I've had doctors yell at me before for "self-diagnosing". But it might be worth asking about. It doesn't seem to matter how much sleep I get, the fatigue and achiness is always there, and it just seems to be getting worse.

doubletrouble/Amy - PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder, a severe anxiety sort of disorder that happens as a result of a traumatic event in a person's life. It doesn't *always* happen when a person has trauma, mind you, but I'm lucky

and it happened to me. In my case, it was a severely abusive marriage. I've had it for probably 10 years now, and I was finally diagnosed last summer, but this was the first time that I ever had something visual consciously trigger a flashback. It was really disturbing.

Kimm, Sheri, and everyone else who mentioned stress as a possible trigger - I haven't had any new stress in my life lately. In fact, with the holidays over, I'd say my life is LESS stressful now than it was! I don't get it.

Cara - Sorry to hear you've been having trouble too! Sheesh, what IS it lately, anyway?! Hope you're feeling better!

Beth - What do you mean, I'm not Superwoman?!?!?! Haha. As for being alone... hmm, it's hard to explain. I guess I should start by saying that I'm really not physically alone all the time - I know a lot of people around town now, and I get out when I want to get out.

And 99% of the time, I'm really very content to be by myself anyway. Going out and being around people at work every day used to drive me bananas - I love doing my own thing from home. I think I was just getting whiny because I've lost touch with a lot of friends of mine over the past year, and it's always their doing... and that hurts a little.

PS - Don't get yourself in trouble at work, ok? LOL

Tina - I could very well need a higher dose of lexapro. I will ask my doctor about that.

Everyone else, just sincere thanks.

Sometimes just knowing that people understand is the biggest help!

Hope everyone's doing good today!

*hugs all around*

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