OK, feeling a bit better now. Please accept my apologies for being Mr Grumpy-pants lately, but you know how it is. I think that I find it most difficult to deal with IBS when not only do I have to avoid loads of foods that I enjoy, but it also doesn’t seem to make much difference – ie, I don’t eat pizza and I still get sick. You start thinking “Well why don’t I just eat the pizza?”
Still, stomach has improved and actually was perfectly normal this morning so at least that’s something. Besides, I’m still in the middle of treatment here, so there’s still a long way to go.
On the CDSA front, I was actually feeling too ill to go see the doc on Saturday, but he has kindly sent me the results through the post, and we’re gonna have a chat probably tomorrow.
I don’t understand a lot of the things on the results sheets (they run to about five pages) but it does look like I’m low on some good bacteria, and that maybe there are a few other issues going on as well. So hopefully that’s another avenue to go down and look for some solutions.
I’d like to thank everyone who has left supportive comments and sent emails – it is really appreciated, and I promise I will try to drag myself out of the IBS pit of despair and frolic gaily into the healthy-stomached stawberry field of joy.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Ellie // Mar 9, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Hi Sophie
I’m glad you are feeling better today and more positive. As you could probably tell from my email to you, I am feeling pretty low at the moment. I think I was expecting some sort of magical cure after cutting out my ‘intolerant’ foods. In fact apart from feeling really great for a couple of days at the beginning (which in hindsight I do get now and then) my new diet seems to have made no difference. Still, I suppose it takes time and patience is required!
On a different note, my doctor has always told me that IBS is a condition of the nervous system, which I have always scoffed at. However, I have noticed that when I am ill, for example a cold, my symptoms completely disappear for the length of the illness. It’s almost as if my body is too busy fighting of an infection to trigger the IBS.
Has anyone else experienced this? Ellie
2 elaine // Mar 12, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Ellie
I can completley empathise with you there.Trouble is it takes you to be unwell with something else to be well…doesn’t make a lot of sense but it seems to be very much the case,we seem to have so many differing “intollerance” foods that you become so stick in a rut about what to eat and when,you then think you go it sussed and then it doesn’t seem to work,so you go on trying to find the key one.
Elaine
3 Ellie // Mar 13, 2006 at 11:13 am
Hi Elaine
I totally agree with your comments.It is an irony that you need to become ill to realise how ill you are all the time. I had what I thought was a bad cold the end of last week and no IBS symptons. I work wednesday to Saturday and usually by Friday/Saturday I am suffering from bloating/wind/runs etc. Must be the added stress of work that triggers my IBS? Sunday morning I work up with a swollen glands and a temperature, which is still not down. Again, no IBS. However, I haven’t had any of my intolerant foods for nearly 3 weeks now and nothing greasy/high in fat for ten days. So, that could also be helping. I guess I won’t know the true cause until my bug clears up.
I tell you what I find really infuriating though. My family and colleagues know I suffer from IBS, and that my day to day life can be a misery. Yet it takes a bad cold for anyone to show they care. Why is that? Probably, like backache for example, you can’t see the obvious signs of illness with IBS. If it’s a regular occurence, perhaps they don’t really believe you? Perhaps they think your exaggerating?
It was only last year that I finally allowed myself to acknowledge the fact I had IBS. I just wish other people would acknowledge the fact too! Or am I being too self-centred? Ellie
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