Stress, so crazy weird this week!

What a crazy weird stress week.

So far since starting the pentasa I have not made it over 2 weeks without an episode.  I had to reset the count again last week.

Well Sunday morning, when I got home from work, my little old dog was sitting and waiting for me as usual.  But sit was all she could do.  It turns out that she had developed spinal problems in her old age that caused her rear legs to become paralyzed.  So Sunday afternoon, when I got up, she was still in bad shape so I decided to skip work and take her to the doggie ER.  That decision made, there was NO, none, not a hint of a BM and I am regular like clockwork when not having other issues.  For 3 days watching the poor dog try and suffer through her meds in an attempt to make her better, my gut is fine which is weird because it was some really gut-wrenching stuff.  I felt the lower lateral pain but was fine otherwise.  Wednesday the decision was made to do the last trip to the vet.  My wife and I got home totally wrecked and distraught, belly still ok, but I was worried, so I had a can of soup for dinner.  Apparently it didn't matter.  Thursday on into today, my insides feel wrecked again.  It seems like I was ok during the stress but once it was gone...................I don't know.  It might be like a vice was clamping everything down, and then released the pressure?

Anyone have any thoughts on the reverse stress thing?  Any thoughts on how to deal with stress of this magnitude?

I think sometimes you are running on adrenaline and you are so focused on something that it does not hit you till later. When my Dad passed I did not have an episode until several weeks later. It was like everything caught up with me. I am so sorry you had to put your doggy down. I had to euthanize my cat last July because of complications of diabetes and I was a wreck. I had had her for 12 years so it was very difficult.  And oddly enough, no episodes while I was dealing with it.

Hell is still breaking loose although the worst of the trauma is over.  I just don't get this "reverse psychology" of my insides.

What I meant about the reverse psychology is that usually in times of high stress my gut acts up.  This was higher than normal stress and it was like nothing as for my gut and nerves, until after the fact.