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Posted 1/23/2012 3:00 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, I'm new to this forum thing, but my symptoms are getting worse so I figure anything could help at this point. So first thing is my flare up are often in the morning especially if I have to wake up super early. Just real bad stomach pains bursting, I can feel my gut move too and it is very uncomfortable. I was diagnosed a little over a year ago, but my parents think that it's an excuse for me not to go to school. For some reason they thought I was being bullied and I used my stomach to get out of it ( this wasn't true ), but to prove to them that it was really my stomach, I even switched schools to show it wasn't a bully. They are constantly on my case. telling me its all in my head and that I do not try hard enough to maintain my stomach issues, when in reality I work out every other day doing exercises that I hear helps regulate bowel movements, and I drink plenty of water, I even take lactacid pills to help digest dairy and a probiotic to help my gut. Any way I don't like having this problem, I miss going out to school and hanging out with out having to worry about an episode, so I was wondering if any of you had any thing you do that could help so I could do them as well. Thanks
Posted 3/6/2012 1:01 AM (GMT 0)
Wolf - you aren't alone! I know its been awhile since you posted this but I had the same thing going on since I was in elementary school (I'm in my mid-30s now but I remember this well). 75% of the time in the AM I would end up in the Nurses office for the first 20-30 min of the day having to lay down because of how bad my stomach hurt. Nothing would move out of my gut but I couldn't even sit at my desk without feeling like falling over. My bus ride to middle school lasted 45 min and most of the time there I would rush to the bathroom and spend the next 30-45 min making sure I was completely emptied out just to make sure I could make it through until lunch (yes sounds gross but it worked). If it didn't work, off to the Nurses office again to lay down because of stomach pains. High school was the same, to the point that I didn't do my math homework the night before just so I could have something to do in the bathroom that was productive (other than well, you know).

And yes, I was told to that all of this was in my head and it was my way of avoiding bullying. Yes, I did have bully issues but I ended up working in the library in middle school and being with a bunch of friends in high school so it wasn't that for me either.

As to what can be done? Go to the drs if you haven't already done so. Make sure that your parents understand that this ISNT all in your head and is your way of avoiding things. Now at age 36 it has become significantly worse and I am JUST starting to get and actual hard diagnosis instead of trying ever over the counter pain reliever and stomach med I could find. I can't believe I've left myself live with this so long as it has been a definite driver in some decisions I've made in life because I didn't want to be "embarrassed" by having to be in the bathroom so long when I was with friends, etc.
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