I know, I've said that I would be better about blogging and here we are about a month later and I haven't written a darn thing. My excuse, I honestly haven't had any energy lately. The surgery didn't work at all. I was hoping for a little relief and yet here we are, sans relief. I can't even begin to explain how having constant bouts of diarrhea is crappy (pun intended). Not only do I have those bouts but every once in a while I'm throwing up on top of it. Some days I just want to curl up in ball and not get up. I know I said I was going to be optimistic and stay positive, but lately I have really been feeling down and a bit depressed.
The one good thing is that my new nutritionist came up with a diet that could possibly help. I'm not going to hold my breath, but if it helps even a little I'll call it a win. This new way of eating that I'll be starting is based off the FODMAPs diet. Now normally this is a diet used by people with IBS or a stomach illness that is similar, but in about 75% of people who follow the diet see a change in their symptoms. It takes about 6-8 weeks to see any real change and I just officially started yesterday, so we will have to wait and see.
At this point, I'll try anything before medication. The next step my doctors want to take is putting back on already-tried-and-failed medications. Some of these medications I've tried three or four times, I don't see how trying them again will help and it really kind of annoys me. It's like "we cant find the problem, so lets start from square one and see it all fail again". Sorry not interested. 90% of those medications caused more problems than actually help. Not putting myself through that crap again, thank you very much.
So, I do promise to try and be more productive. Half the time I mean to write and end up just staring at the computer screen. I get so tired that I can't even conjure up a well thought out sentence, let alone an entire blog post.
Here's to hoping for better days!
Until next time
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