Posted 11/18/2012 2:15 AM (GMT 0)
So I'm scheduled to have a colonoscopy on Monday morning.
This will be my third one, but it'll be the first time I've done it with prep for just one day! I remember it taking days when I was a kid and the stuff they made me drink was as thick as molasses.
I have a bowel to skin fistula. Not sure how explosive diarrhea is going to effect it.
Also, I am full of air. All. the. TIME! I can sit on the can and get rid of everything, but five minutes later, I am full of air again. I wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom, and I'm emptying my guts before I can even pee!
And I itch alot. I scratch my arms and I break out in welts all over the place so bad that friends want to take me to the ER. I blame the remicade, but who knows? I figure I just have to live with it.
I recently started dating and I have taken up the practice of not eating dinner, just because my stomach is so noisy and I don't want my date to hear it. Plus, the anxiety of dating has really made me not want to eat even more. The less I eat, the better I feel, which makes me feel better looking in an anorexic way. It's all twisted as fuc.
I don't know why, but the whole scope thing on monday is making me very emo. I enjoyed my last meal yesterday and now I'm having a liquid dinner of beer and more beer, sorta prepping in advance. heh heh
Hence, all the rambling! haha
It's not fear I'm experiencing, just a strong feeling of resignation, that something is going to be revealed which I will use to make me feel even more emo, but I won't be able to do a thing about!
Can a GI find other fistulas just with a colonoscopy?
Does it make a darn bit of difference if he does?
What if my guts are narrowing?
How can I feel this bad even when I'm on remicade?
It's not like a surgeon would even attempt to cut all this out or that I would even risk it.
I'm so tempted to just tell everyone about my colonoscopy on my monday fb status.
And I know that it'll just be attention seeking and pathetic, but I don't know if I can stop myself. I want everyone to know I'm not as healthy as I look and I deal with this everyday!
I'm also sorta seeing someone and I haven't told him about what's going to happen monday. I don't know why. He knows about the crohns, but I just can't seem to tell him about this. Before he knew about my disease, he only saw me as healthy and fit. I told him about my CD and he said all the right things, but I don't think his bubble has really burst yet because I don't look sick. I sure as hell didn't tell him about the fistula.
What do I do?
Any opinions on any of this rambling will be appreciated because I am bored and buzzed.
ROWR