an icky day

I have just read through your posts and it mkaes me laugh how everyone is just so open!  Whenever I try and talk about how I'm feeling, some people just dont want to know.  I'm so happy I've found somewhere I can come share my problem!!

I do have a question though - does anyone else feel really emotional when you've had a flare up that lasts a while?  I've just cried my heart out to my husband for no reason at all, but I think a large part of it is because I've been feeling so rubbish for so long now.  Plus my dad has been on the phone worrying about me which really touched me.  My dad started with IBS, but then he started with Ulcerative Colitis and had bowel cancer, so now he has a colostomy.  Because he knows exactly how I'm feeling its a relief that someone close to me can give me some sympathy! 

I had a bad time at work today and was really embarrassed about having to run off to the toilet.  However, I had a light evening meal (a bowl of branflakes) and I haven't had so much pain this evening which is a god send!  Still had a few toilet problems but not as bad as before.  I'm just hoping for a goods night sleep tonight!!

i get emotional about it too, well i did, then i had a breakdown with my husband-- i screamed out in the hospital "sure, its easy for you, your not the one s#%tting your panties--you aren't the one out of underwear!" then we went back and forth and i learned that he was just as much apart of my poo as i was... but i am not embarrassed about it with him or my friends/family--it is work that is weird. would you believe an all male light shop doesn't want to know about the chick who poos a lot!? i thought boys like talking about poo, they seem to have no problem farting...!!
and yes sarita, it was me--- power of suggestion!!!! ha, the toilet is a lonely world, i wanted company. and for my next trick, i will eat a lovely dinner, and it will remain in my body!!!!! (until i deem it necessary to let it go...) Seriously, i hope everyone feels better!!!
and as for my pins and needles, they are constant--even during sleep. and surprisingly i don't sit for long, so i don't think it is that (oh, except for on the toilet--i do sit for that..) even when i am at the computer i am moving around/walking... and it is in my hands too, it just shows up... i am one of those jittery people who keep moving around, shaking my legs, that annoying stuff... ha, maybe it is my body's way of saying "stop moving you freak, i am tired..."
i think more people should talk about poo, i would have gone to get a GI work up earlier if i had known what was "normal" (i should say healthy..) i encourage poo talk... if i have to see commercials about "things" lasting longer than 4 hours... i should be able to converse freely about my poo, darn it!!!
okay that is enough for me, i am going to make some rice... thank goodness for rice... i don't know what i would do without it!!!
FEEL BETTER EVERYONE my thoughts are with all of you!!!
--bunnybabe

Hi Evie,
That small hole sounds like a fissure. Your doctor can prescribe ointments or creams to help heal that. They are very difficult to heal on their own and they normally will drain. You might want to call him back and tell him that you suspect its a fissure and you want them to check it again. Don't let these doctors dismiss you, they have no right to... you are their clinet and they have to take care of you. If not, make a complaint and see another doctor.

Hope that you do have a better day today. Eat small meals and not too fast. Eating too fast sometimes senses your GI tract needs to work overtime.

Guess whose garden hose is going today??? Thats right you guessed it... I just got home from work, I have been in the bathroom 4 times already and its on 10:30am here... what is going on here???

i am so sorry des, do feel better--take it easy.

i would bring you rice if i could...
--bunny

Thanks bunny, I will be resting today, and be a (what did Lil call it) "toilet potato" LOL

My doctor did say that she thought it was a fissure, but I have never been offered creams.  I've decided to go back to the doctor again and stand my ground until something is done.

I have had some slight success today - I was greedy this morning but I had some branflakes for breakfast AND a bacon sandwich!  I was on the toilet by half past ten this morning,  but it seemed worth it at the time!  However, I had my lunch (just plain cheese sandwiches), and I didnt have to rush to the toilet until I got home from work.  It may not seem like much, but I was so glad I was spared of the embarrassment and could get home and be in my own space.

I also seem to have set up a library in the bathroom now!  I seem to spend that much time in there I have all kinds of magazines! lol

I have also invested in some moist aloe vera toilet paper, which is the nicest possible thing I think I could have found right now.  Don't mean to be graphic, but the cooling senstion and the cleanliness I feel after these is worth every single penny.  I would pay ten times what it costs, and it's only 99p (about 50 cents to those in the USA!)

I also wanted to say how much I'm enjoying being a part of this forum - everyone is so friendly and helpful and I look forward to being here in the future (although hopefully feeling a lot better!)

Oh no  :(  I hope you're feeling better soon.

I'm getting tired of just feeling like I need to pee, and then when i get to the toilet the bowel heavens open and I'm there for the duration.  Getting through my latest magazine pretty quick though.  Lastest installment is Brad and Angelina are getting married lol!!

OH MY GOD IT'S AN OUTBREAK!  Des, Lyn, Evie, Lil...I'm so sympathetic.  Not today (!!!) but I totally feel for you.

Evie, yeah, what's the deal?  Have you had fissures before?  What tests have they done on you again?

Sarita said...Evie, yeah, what's the deal?  Have you had fissures before?  What tests have they done on you again?

They haven't done any proper tests - thats the good old NHS for you.  My doctor looked at it, said what she thought it was, gave me the anti-biotics that made me ill, I went back and that was it.  They have referred me to hospital but I could be waiting for months for that appointment to come.

I never get to see the same doctor when i go - you have ring for an appointment on the day you want to go and see who is free.  So you have to go through the whole symptoms thing every time you go.  When I first went about the fissure, I saw a male doctor and he seemed so embarrased I was in and out in about 3 minutes. I have to say that really they have been pretty useless, but now I have fond this place, and you have all given me some fantastic advice, I know that when I go back I can be armed with some information and hopefully get somewhere quickly!

How fantastic are you??  That is definintely going to be worth getting I think!! lol  I'll be through my own stuff by the end of tomorrow!!

>>>HUGS<<< right back at ya! I am glad you are feeling better, Des. Hopefully this will be the end of it. If you are anything like me you will be clogged for days now. I hope not though.