I'm in a well bad mood *vent thread*

Wow, what a moron. I'm right there with you.

@scifigal - I ended up feeling a bit guilty 'cos I finally calmed down enough to read the rest of the guy's post and he had gone on a long spiel about depression and other mental health stuff :/ So I said I hoped I hadn't made his depression worse but that he should just take the Pentasa every day - a tad more fruitily than that, I might add.

Dang, I haven't been in this crabby a mood for a long time. Not even sure what triggered it :/

@Tom - Yeah, I must admit ColitisCure got under my skin tonight. I dunno, there's just something really arrogant about thinking you've found an actual cure as opposed to a treatment. If a cure was found for IBD which worked for everybody who tried it, forums like these ones would be buzzing like crazy - it's just not something which could be kept hidden.

Hi NCOT,
There are plenty of posters that have opinions that seem idiotic to me and make me roll my eyes. I've found that it's best for my own mental health to just skip those posts and not respond at all. Some folks are genuinely new to the disease and don't know any better, which is completely understandable, but if I'm feeling annoyed, I just skip over it.

I do find the diet stuff very tiresome, even if some people genuinely benefit from diet changes. I hate when people ask me if whatever it is I'm eating is "allowed" with Crohn's disease. I know they don't know any better, but I'm friggin' 58 yrs old. If I'm eating something, then I'm choosing to do so....I don't need uninformed people policing me. Ahh, I started with trying to help you skip stuff, and ended with my own rant

Morning folks. I'm still in a well bad mood >.> Had ghastly, upsetting dreams for hours, which didn't exactly make me wake up feeling happy and uplifted. I'm beginning to wonder if the 100mcg of levothyroxine is finally kicking in - I was on 75mcg until I had a dose increase last week. Seemed to make no difference at first, but dang the anger energy is certainly surging now. I'm having to tone down my posts on the other site, because I got two moderations :-/

@sparkleplenty - Sounds like the author didn't do enough research. Those suggestions would really irritate me too. Maybe you'd do better with books specifically about Crohn's (or arthritis)? I dunno, I used to try reading self-help books, but never found them that helpful. I think it was because the books were invariably so general and the advice watered down correspondingly. One or two did stand out but otherwise, I found I forgot them as soon as I had finished them. I hope you can find a better book which is more helpful/empathetic.

@gumby - Oh dear god, you have just touched upon a pet peeve of mine. I have an aspie acquaintance (I can't really call him a friend...) who does that. He has more stomach problems than I do and can get seriously miserable as a result. Yet not once have I told him "should you be eating that?". I find this guy seriously irritating anyway. I've been tending to avoid him lately, as I just find him too exhausting to deal with - but that's another story.

@labradorite - I've googled Doc Vader - is that the right person? <_<. As for the book, I'd quite like to read it for myself, but it would crank me so much that it's not worth it.

@Jen - Thanks! :p Yeah, I try to give a pass to people who are newly diagnosed. There is so much disinformation on the internet, it's frightening. I consider myself lucky to have found HW, which has been a beacon of rationality and good info compared to almost anywhere else. But the occasional crank slips through the net, e.g. ColitisCure. You're right about the judgementalism. I've been guilty of that myself in the past :/ Folks with mild cases should understand that folk with severe cases aren't putting it on. If somebody says they can't eat fibre, they are not just saying that so they can eat more cakes - intestines which have been strictured, fistulated, inflamed and operated on are not like normal healthy intestines. Anyway, I'm waffling now, so I'll shut up :-/

I watched one of his videos. I enjoyed it. Will watch a few more later.

I'm in a bad mood about somebody else now (no, not my aspie acquaintance or anyone on the internet). Proper narked off. It's a bit of a long back story so I won't go into it here, particularly as it's got zero to do with IBD, meds or diets. But basically I feel like I've been deceived, whether deliberately or not I don't know.

Oh yeah and the guy who refuses to take Pentasa replied. I replied, read it over, deleted it, and started again. I'm not his mother (he's in his 20s) and I can hardly nag him to take his meds. Just very briefly gave my experience of not taking meds for a few years and said I hoped he didn't end up with the same surgery that I did, i.e. a colectomy. Dunno, I probably said the wrong thing, I so often do :/

Thanks, iPoop. I've calmed down now... >.>

Question time, folks. Is it better in your day-to-day life to:

a) be a zombie but calm?
b) have more energy but be on edge all the time?

I'm appreciating the extra energy, but I wish I didn't feel like hitting everybody :-/

Yeah, I don't have kids to worry about - only internet strangers feel the full force of my wrath <_<.

It's actually kinda boring which is part of why I didn't want to write about it - I felt too lazy to >.<. There's no funny insults or anything like that. At any rate I'm gonna get a shower first, 'cos if I don't it will be 2am before I know it. Will email you afterwards though.

PS: I'm going to see the new Star Wars film with my mum tomorrow. It's my birthday on the 19th January and that is my birthday day out... >_>

@NCOT: I also volunteer to kick someone's butt.

Ugh - I would rather eat my own organs than deal with bureaucrats.

A couple of years ago I was taking a project management course and due to some weird timing, I ended up taking the course in Ottawa. So in the class there was me, the cowboy 'shoot from the hip' dude from Alberta, and 14 civil servants. They were all wonderful people, but the difference between a private enterprise mindset and a bureaucratic one couldn't have been more apparent. These people actually cared about pennies. It blew my mind how many countless person-hours were, from my perspective anyway, spent on the most trivial of things.

One of the people in the class explained to me how the public service is steeped in a culture of accountability. Oddly enough, not accountability to those they were ultimately supposed to serve, but accountability instead to the system. As long as the 'i's were dotted and the 't's crossed, your position in the government machine was always defensible.

I wouldn't worry about them pulling the rug out from under you. Just paste a "I'm-dealing-with-a-government-employee poo-eating grin" on your face and sign whatever they stick in front of you. If I learned anything from Douglas Adams, it is that one must let Vogons be Vogons,

NCOT,

Noooooo. Please do not start watching every little thing you say! You, and the others here on HW help so many people. You have saved me from making some really huge mistakes with my crohns. You say what I think. I love the way you respond.

The anger thing...oh....when on methotrexate my head can spin clear around and if on methotrexate and prednisone...I think I can levitate, fly and leap buildings in a single bound! I know I drive with one finger out the window waving at all the people I consider idiots that day. Not a good thing!!!

Hang in there!

I am still rather new to the Crohn's world and at times feel a bit like an impostor (my son has Crohn's - not me) but this forum and the regular responders have kept me sane...! I feel like screaming, ranting and shaking those who say to my son (or me) "Well just the eat the right foods and stay away from stress?" WHAT???? Like anyone with this horrid disease wouldn't have already done it IF IT WORKED! NCOT: I love your responses and your compassion - and how you reach out in support all the time!

Thanks NCOT! True - I may not know much (or have lived it) but SERIOUSLY eat the RIGHT FOODS? Or avoid stress! This forum has made me much wiser and bolder in how I help my son !