Given my ridiculously low energy level, I have always wondered whether j have had CFS, but it has just not been bad enough to warrent testing and life has been soo demanding for the last few years. No time to take care of myself.
Which may be another reason why this happened besides my age, being female and having had 3 kids, etc. also, I began to put on a bunch of weight last winter and things slowed dow regularity wise. Then maybe it was after a month of antibiotics after a tick bite this summer that I began to notice that I'd be lucky to have a BM in a week and my usual flax fiber wasn't working at all, (which wasn't that great a surprise because it had become less and less effective) Sooo my instinct was to add more food to get things moving rather than the stool softeners that made me feel alternately sick or ready to explode I did terrible things like eating a half a jar of peanut butter, or 10 servings of prunes in a day or two. It probably just increased the size of my colon and added to any organ pressure that might be inhibiting movement. So yeah, I just kept getting fatter and felt more and more like there was an obstruction. Called the GI office, made an apt and the nurse told me to use miralax.
So the appt is day after tomorrow. I would rather avoid colonsoscopy & just have the fecal blood test done depending on what the doc says. As I've been looking for what may be causing these symptoms, I'm seeing all sorts of diagnostics that could take lots of time to go through. Time which I don't have. Id like to first rule out being able to solve this thing with probiotics, etc, because my theory is that I allowed myself to get into some very bad eating and bowel habits, for example, hardly eating all day and then binging at night,
I was thinking for example, that maybe I could reduce the miralax whilst starting with an easily digestible lower fiber diet, and supplements. Also, I've never had a problem digesting milk, but I drink a lot, especially with peanut butter! I've heard it can be very constipating. Would it be better to perhaps start on a diet that simply eliminates milk, if this is a common problem even when a person tolerates it well?
In the meantime dropping some weight, strengthening my pelvic floor and other muscles couldn't hurt.
Im really surprised at how terribly this has affected my quality of life these recent months and that is mainly why I am asking for help.
Before the miralax started working a week after I took 2 doses per day, I often felt like I was carrying around a fifty pound lead slug in my abdomen. It was uncomfortable, more limiting than the weight alone, and exhausting. I'm still a little uncomfortable. I feel like maybe I have some internal swollen hemorrhoids because there is a sensation of pressure in the rectum.
Thanks for reading.
Carolyn
Which may be another reason why this happened besides my age, being female and having had 3 kids, etc. also, I began to put on a bunch of weight last winter and things slowed dow regularity wise. Then maybe it was after a month of antibiotics after a tick bite this summer that I began to notice that I'd be lucky to have a BM in a week and my usual flax fiber wasn't working at all, (which wasn't that great a surprise because it had become less and less effective) Sooo my instinct was to add more food to get things moving rather than the stool softeners that made me feel alternately sick or ready to explode I did terrible things like eating a half a jar of peanut butter, or 10 servings of prunes in a day or two. It probably just increased the size of my colon and added to any organ pressure that might be inhibiting movement. So yeah, I just kept getting fatter and felt more and more like there was an obstruction. Called the GI office, made an apt and the nurse told me to use miralax.
So the appt is day after tomorrow. I would rather avoid colonsoscopy & just have the fecal blood test done depending on what the doc says. As I've been looking for what may be causing these symptoms, I'm seeing all sorts of diagnostics that could take lots of time to go through. Time which I don't have. Id like to first rule out being able to solve this thing with probiotics, etc, because my theory is that I allowed myself to get into some very bad eating and bowel habits, for example, hardly eating all day and then binging at night,
I was thinking for example, that maybe I could reduce the miralax whilst starting with an easily digestible lower fiber diet, and supplements. Also, I've never had a problem digesting milk, but I drink a lot, especially with peanut butter! I've heard it can be very constipating. Would it be better to perhaps start on a diet that simply eliminates milk, if this is a common problem even when a person tolerates it well?
In the meantime dropping some weight, strengthening my pelvic floor and other muscles couldn't hurt.
Im really surprised at how terribly this has affected my quality of life these recent months and that is mainly why I am asking for help.
Before the miralax started working a week after I took 2 doses per day, I often felt like I was carrying around a fifty pound lead slug in my abdomen. It was uncomfortable, more limiting than the weight alone, and exhausting. I'm still a little uncomfortable. I feel like maybe I have some internal swollen hemorrhoids because there is a sensation of pressure in the rectum.
Thanks for reading.
Carolyn
