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Razieh A

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I have IBS (Irritable Bowel (sp?) Syndrome). Every medication I take seems to have different effects on my digestive system. No matter what I eat my gut is on fire. I always feel like I need to go to the bathroom, but I never can. I always fell full up to my ears. To top it off, I always have horrible stomach cramps. I take at least 2 Aleve a day, sometimes more. Sometimes when I'm laying in bed next to my fiancee, I wish I was dead so I didn't have to deal with the pain anymore.

I have had problems with being stopped up since I was in about 3rd grade and probably before that. But now I can't even go for a short car ride to the store without having horrible cramps and feeling shitty. It makes traveling so hard. Especially when I have to go back and forth to college since it's a three hour car trip. Sometimes I feel better when I drive, but it still doesn't stop me from being sick. It's not always cramps too. Sometimes I get horrible nausea. I went to the doctor on campus for it and he kept asking me if I was pregnant and then decided to prescribe me some anti-nausea meds. There is not cure for IBS, it's just something that people have to learn to cope with.

I don't want a pitty party, I'm just so fed up with dealing with this and I'm so tired of feeling sick and being in pain. How am I supposed to enjoy the rest of my life when I'm afraid to take a 10 min. car ride? How am I supposed to live my life to the fullest when I'm always popping pain killers and toting around a whole fricken medicine cabinet to deal with symptoms? I just get so fed up and frustrated with the whole situation. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. gah....:suicide:
 
If it's any consolation, your not the only one.

We just have to grin and bare it.
Just keep on keepin' on.
umm. Move along I suppose.

Someone once said, "If it doesn't kill you, it makes you stonger."

Well that is clearly true. You are capable of dealing with much higher levels of stess and discomfort than the average person. So while you may have this syndrome, if you look at it in a different light it might not always seem so bad.
 
I had the same thing during college for two years straight. I too was in constant pain and never looked forward to the next day knowing how I was goign to feel. I knew every toilet within a 10 mile radius and the restaurants and diners wouldn't even questions me when they saw me arrive and run in throught he doorway. They knew I was on the road and just HAD to go.

The meds weren't working at first and it took a while to find ones that didn't cause a different problem so I ended up taking an antacid due to an ulcer that eventually formed from the IBS and another medication I just don't remember the name right now to help regulate my digestive system.

Finally, about two years after it started, it finally cooled down near the end of college. It started up again when I went through school again to learn pc tech support but then it cooled down again after that was over. I now only get flare-ups on occasions of high stress and sometimes during my monthly visits ;). That's common for post IBS for women...instead of cramps...you get a little IBS but it doesn't last long....maybe about 2-3 days.

I can sympathise with you. IBS is no laughing matter and I KNOW that pain you are talking about. All that I can give you is don't let it get you down. I got through it during college. I know you can too. It was like living with hell inside of me but it DOES go away eventually.

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I can only hope that it'll go away eventually. I've been dealing with it since I was 10 and in the past couple of years it's gotten nearly unbearable. It's so miserable. My fiancee says he understands, but he hasn't gone through it, so he doesn't. His family doesn't understand. They think I just get car sick. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one dealing with this.
 
I'm sorry to hear that mags...my friend Chris has I.B.S. but somehow the symptoms just...stopped. It's like he doesn't have it anymore. So I guess maybe you can hope that your body will change and the syndrome will disappear.

But I hope you feel better, at least for day, maybe a few days would be nice :thumbsup:
 
You're absolutely right. Unless your BF has been in chronic pain for a lengthy period of time, there is no way he can understand how you feel. On the other hand, the fact that he is supportive and believes you is even more important.

Most folks don't believe you're "sick" (I put that in quotations because a chronic condition isn't really sick, per se, it's almost a way of life for the sufferer) unless you're broken out in spots or bleeding profusely.

A friend of ours suffers from IBS, and has had it for almost 10 years. It took a very long time for her to find the combination of medication that would partially alleviate her symptoms.

That's the good news. There is light at the end of that tunnel.

Continue working with your doctor to find the mix of meds that might help. Don't give up. Bug that prescribing physician until they see you as a person and not just a case subject.

If stress contributes to the problem, like Bitch mentioned, it could be that it will stop on its own.

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Aww, thanks for all the support guys. I don't know that I'll bug my doctor too much with this because most of the doctors I have seen have said "IBS is all in your head." Which is bullshit. But yeah, I'll keep working on finding some way to feel better. Sometimes I just get so frustrated with it all. Thanks for your support.
 
I think I may have some mental strain of IBS. I think it's a cross between ADD and IBS. Whenever I find myself to be at a point of "Holy fuck. This is boring.", my attention immediately shifts to the impending hell poking around in my lower bowels. For instance: Wal-Mart. Should I ever become (god forbid) constipated... a trip to wally world with the wife is a sure fire way to cure it. My wife has an uncanny ability to corner me in the isles ADD hell. Fucking window treatments! I can't go wander into isles that would better suit my interests, fuck no. I have to give my input on these...WTF are they things that might hang on a window. "This has to be the single most fuctdup boring place in all of the Wal-Fart torture chambers!" Two minutes into looking at curtain rods and granny cloth, my bowels are singing "P-l-e-a-s-e release me, let me g-o-o-o!" FUCK! My wife would most certainly always reply with: "Stop acting like a child. You are just full of shit, and are just looking for an excuse to purge it on society. Do you think this trinket would look good on the back of the toilet?" FUCK x2!
 
That shit sucks.... feeling like you have to take a firey (sp) piece of shit?..... I know the feeling..... But only when I eat really hot salsa..... Man that burns your ass!
 
A friend of mine had that. She used Reiki to heal herself. Now if your open minded enough to try it out, why not give it a try? Afterall the worst thing that could happen is that its doesnt work and you move onto a new option.
 
It's a form of energy healing. It can be either hands-on or no hands at all...you don't even have to be in the same room as the person doing the reiki. It's quite effective. I personally tried it once. I am not as in to reiki. I'm a massage therapist that prefers the more swedish based styles. (swedish massage, medical massage, etc...
 
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