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Posted 8/21/2008 3:58 PM (GMT 0)
No my post as I stated was more of a funny than a frustrated post. I was making a point on how much you really try educating folks, some just never get it. I work with this person and he has seen how Crohns affect me, yet he still doesn't get it. I guess in his case he never will.
Posted 8/21/2008 4:38 PM (GMT 0)
You think that's bad?  I called my general doctor the other day telling him I was having Crohn's symptoms and he asked me (I have IBS & IBD) if I was having D?  Hello?  When am I not?  That's not a symptom for me...that's every day life! Dude, read the file! Thank goodness he told me to call my GI who was more familiar with the situation.  Argh!

Posted 8/21/2008 6:01 PM (GMT 0)
Start sending him articles about something like living with TB or something that he clearly doesn't have and when he asks why say "well, you're always sending me useless articles on something I don't have, so I thought I'd play too!"
Posted 8/21/2008 6:40 PM (GMT 0)
Tell the guy at work you are looking at a new job. You want to be an A hole stretcher. When he asks what that is, tell him they stretch A holes all day and when they stretch them big enough they put them in charge of finding articles like the ones he brings to you.
Posted 8/21/2008 6:53 PM (GMT 0)
I love when those well-meaning people tell me that I should do a colon cleansing...

My body seems to be able to that on a fairly consistent basis.
Posted 8/21/2008 7:06 PM (GMT 0)
You guys have given some great ideas. Sniper I like the A hole one alot.
Posted 8/21/2008 8:46 PM (GMT 0)
My MIL is one of those. She is always saying how her IBS is the same as my IBD, but then she will tell her friends about how horrible my life and my disease are (as an example of why her Son shouldn't have married me, did I mention that after 23 years she still hates me). Then my Sister who went to school with one of my MIL's friend's daughters ran into this girl in a mall, she gets the run down on Scott's wife and her horrible disease. So my sister just says, yes I know, she's my sister. Too funny, except that it isn't true and who else is she telling. Since we are from the same town and know a lot of the same people, it just makes me mad that I really strive to overcome this wonderful DD and she is out there telling the world that I'm basically bedridden and falling apart! All to prove her point that her Son would be better off without me.
Posted 8/21/2008 8:57 PM (GMT 0)
Aren't MIL's just great (Not) I hope you realize Zanne that you will probably never be good enough for her son, no matter what happens. At least that sounds like the kind of MIL she is. ((HUGS))
Posted 8/21/2008 9:15 PM (GMT 0)
Oh yes. Because she is a practicing alcoholic, not recovering mind you, who has done more damage to her 3 kids than is even imaginable. BUT, I'm damaged goods!!!!!
Posted 8/21/2008 10:35 PM (GMT 0)
When she heard that my husband was in the hospital for 9 days because of CD, a neighbor began extolling (for the second time) the healing properties of panela (a solid block of sugarcane juice) taken with milk every night. She even gave us a little baggie of the panela. I wonder if Lactaid would work, cause for *some reason* that's the only kind of milk we have around here... Too funny. I'm sure it is much more obnoxious than funny after so much of that, though. :/
Posted 8/22/2008 12:45 AM (GMT 0)
My GP once even made that mistake, IBD being IBS. Needless to say, I corrected the mistake. Politely THAT time, since I needed his services. But how aggravating.
As for having both? I doubt it. If you have IBD your IBS is just CD or UC symptoms before other signs showed up. IMO, anyway..

Matthew
Posted 8/22/2008 3:31 AM (GMT 0)
From someone who's STILL on the IBD/IBS diagnostic rollercoaster after three years with no definitive results but with all the watery diarrhea you could ever ask for to boot, I have to say, we can't play the "my disease is worse than yours" game no matter what. Let's keep that in mind!
Posted 8/22/2008 11:47 AM (GMT 0)
Like I said on the first page...

I completely agree with Sarita.

They can both be equally terrible. I've seen my step-grandfather suffer considerably. Only a lot of people, doctors included, have taken him less seriously because of the "D" and "S" letter difference. Lovely no?
Posted 8/22/2008 12:39 PM (GMT 0)
I actually disagree a bit.   I feel like if they cared, they would listen.   And continuing to ignore what you explained is not listening/caring.

Luckily, I have people in my life who care and listen.   I'm also pretty outspoken (but not rude :-)  ) and if someone handed  me an article on IBS, I'd hand it right back and say "I dont have IBS" and leave it at that.   Or I'd hand the article back (raw food diet) and say, "What are you trying to kill me?" while laughing (to put them at ease).   

I also do what Nanners does, I always say Crohn's Disease, rather than IBD.  I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've said "I.B.D." 

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