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…. to pop this huge painful bubble my intestines have become today. Anyone have one that they can spare? I have already taken the “max” amount of anti-gas stuff and and still in wicked pain. Sometimes I wish I could just pop myself. oh the joys of being me. 
I feel like I am living on a roller coaster this week, with my butt tied to a toilet instead of held in place by a metal bar in one of those little roller coaster cars. The week started out calm and slow with a gradual incline to two great level days. Then then yesterday morning there was a sudden twist in the road and I plummeted down into IBS hell. Yesterday afternoon and today have been a bunch of ups and downs and sudden rumbly lurches.
blah.
I am now waiting for the calm that comes after the twists and turns and drops and the sense of relief when you realize the ride is stopped for now. I’m tired of this ride, I would like to get off of it now.
Someone found my little corner of the blog word by typing in:
“is sprite bad for people with IBS”
ahhh….someone after my own heart. You see, I know carbonation is “bad” for people with IBS. My brain knows that it is not smart to intentionally consume something that will add air to my system. But of everything I have had to give up or modify to deal with my IBS, Sprite is the ONE thing I REFUSE to give up. I think my system is used to it by now. Or I have just beaten it into submission for this one thing. Because, really, I gave up caffeinated soda, that should be enough. It’s too bad though that they can’t make the regular stuff calorie free without all those fake icky sugars that I can’t eat. Because there are a lot of calories at stake when you have more than one can a day.
So Sprite is an essential food group for me. Along with Carbohydrates. And not much else. Ahhh… gotta love those individual food pyramids…
As far as Monday’s go, today was a great one. I felt really well all day. My symptoms seem to be calming down a bit and I actually had normal bowel activity today.
excuse me for a moment, the superstitious part of me needs to go bang the crap out of some wood so as not to jinx myself….BANG!…..BANG!!…BANG!….. ok, I’m back…
I haven’t done an “In the News” post in a little bit. At least, I don’t remember one. So I have one for today.
ME!
I was in the news. Sort of.
Have you heard of the Digestive Heath SmartBrief?? NO?? What do you mean NO? Well that’s ok if you haven’t, I hadn’t either till this weekend when I checked my email and saw that my blog had been quoted by it. Nifty huh? Someone actually is reading this! That’s just makes the sun shine a little brighter.
So anyway, the Digestive Health SmartBrief is a free weekly newsletter is from the American College of Gasteroenterology and you can sign up for it here. I have only read a bit of one issue but it looks like it could provide a lot of nifty information.
So, check it out and let us all know what you think!
…for me anyway. I think this is the longest I have gone with out posting. Having a new job with a long commute will do that to you.
So today was Day 3 of New Job. And for all 3 days I have felt HORRIBLE in the morning. Absolutely horrible. My system is so not regulated right now, no matter what I eat. Every morning is a bunch of trips to the bathroom while trying to get ready to leave on time. I was late my first day. Not good. But once I survive the ride to work and am there for a little while I feel fine. But I feel so bad before I leave I can’t even eat breakfast. It’s no fun. Luckily for me though the drive to and from work has several bathroom pit stops available to me if I need it. They aren’t exactly convenient but will do in a pinch. Nothing beats highway gas stations or Wal-Marts! ha.
So far so good as far as the job goes. I do not, however, enjoy the bathroom situation (come on, you knew I would get around to the bathroom situation, it is after all the most important part). The bathroom doors are locked and outside the official office space. So I have to remember to grab a key. I am most uncomfy with the fact that people can tell how long I am in the bathroom because they can see how long the key is gone. Because, of course, they are all paying that close of attention to my bathroom habits. And they all can see through their office walls to see that the key is missing.
Yesterday went better than expected. About half an hour before I had to leave the belly calmed down. Yay! Maybe writing about it helped. I’ll have to try that again. Maybe I was too distracted taking care of the kid and getting him ready to go. I don’t know. But what ever it was, I am thankful that I was feeling good at the doctor. I needed all my energy to chase the kid around!
One of the hardest aspects of IBS to deal with is always feeling bad when I have to be somewhere. This stress induced “oh-my-god-i-have-to-be-somewhere-right-on-time” bowel issues always seem to rear it’s ugly head when I have an appointment. Even where there is no logical reason to be stressed. For example, today. I have to be somewhere in two hours. It’s a new doctor’s office that I have never been too. Usually I stress about getting somewhere but I know right where it is. So I don’t really feel stressed. Perhaps my subconscious is terrified about the bathroom set up. But that’s foolish says the logical part of my brain. Doctor’s offices always have bathrooms. But, it doesn’t matter. For the last hour my intestines have been going haywire. And, if today is anything like past issues, I will be in the bathroom until I have just barely enough time to get where I want to go. Luckily I am already showered, but still, I do not expect the next hour and a half to be pleasant. *sigh* Isn’t life wonderful???
Need a bathroom? Visit China where they have 1000 toilets over 30,000 square feet!
They show lots of urinals. I hope they have some of the non-urinal variety….
I haven’t slept well since Thursday night for multiple boring reasons – traveling, the Kid, oh and in last night’s case, severe pain every time I tried to lay down. As long as I sat on the Throne, things where great. Felt great, if I had had a pillow, I might have been asleep. But as soon as I got up and went to lay down in bed I was in agony. At 11 pm, after an hour of running back and forth between the bathroom and the bed, that I took 2 gas pills, 2 Aleve and 2 bentyl. I am sure that wasn’t the best thing to do but dang it, I was desperate. Half an hour (and finally a little D) later I was able to lay down. Two and a half hours after I am usually in dream land. *sigh* I need to get more sleep. When I don’t get enough sleep it doesn’t matter at all what I eat or what else is going on. If the sleep is gone, the IBS is partying. Add up four nights of not getting enough, I’m in real trouble. Especially because my body is starting to adjust and is foolishly believing that I may not need as much sleep as I really do. If I’m not careful, I won’t be tired when I have to go to bed and that won’t be good. I have always thought that the sleep aspect is an interesting connection. It is amazing how our body works but I wish doctors could explain what it is about the sleep that helps the bowels figure out what they’re supposed doing. If they could figure it out, maybe they could bottle it. I’d pay a small fortune for it.
All weekend my tummy was making a LOT of noise. It wasn’t really painful but my intestines where doing something in there. And it was reflected in the BM’s of the weekend and the amount of gas I had Sunday. Blah. We where out of town (yes, AGAIN) but I did ok. Well, except the trip back. The first half of the trip wasn’t very fun, but the second half was ok. But that may be because I was distracted. We stopped in the town we are going to be moving too and looked at a possible new residence. We both liked it! Yay! So we may be moving there. We will definately be moving Somewhere, it’s just a matter of where and when… Oh lovely. It should be interesting to see how the belly holds up to the new job and moving stress. Hopefully it will be off set by how EXCITED I am!!!
