Good morning everyone. I am writing to you again to say that I am having to go back to the basics. It seems that becoming healthy is not going to be an easy path for me. As I told you before I went to the GI doctor and he gave me a medicine that seemed to have helped. Well it did help but not for everything. No more all day nausea and no more pain but the weekly stomach aches are still here. So this week at the insistence of my loving husband (and when I say insistence I mean verbal reminders, email reminders and then as a last ditch effort yesterday two reminders that popped up on my phone!) I once again called my GI doctor.
The GI doctor agrees something is still wrong and gives me another medication to try along with the first one. Now let me tell you I am starting up quite a collection of medications. I am up to 5 pills in the morning and 3 pills at night - fun stuff everyone! So I picked it up yesterday and started taking it last night. The doctor also asked that I keep track of what I eat to see if we can pinpoint what causes this. He explained that if I do not figure this out or if the pills do not work then I get the joy of swallowing modern technology so that they can see my insides from the top down. Really cutting edge stuff if you think about it but still I am finding it a little weird that I have to swallow a camera!
Now I know I just started it but by 10pm my stomach was killing me and I was so nausea it made me feel like the room was spinning (heck maybe it was)! I put a patch on (oh those are the patches they gave me for nerve pain in my side after they took out my gallbladder). It cuts the burning pain down on my side when my stomach starts hurting like that. With that and some cuddling with the hubby I was able to fall asleep. However every time I rolled on my side or stomach I woke up. A restful night it was not.
Needless to say when I got up this morning it was with the thought - something has to give on this! I am so sick of being sick (if I may be so clique)! Now comes my bright idea for the day :)
I figured if my doctor wants me to track what I am eating I may as well do it right. My bright idea is that I am starting all over - going back to the basics if you will. I am going to start with fruit. I will only eat fruit for a day or two. If I can get my stomach to quit hurting while eating fruit then I will add that to the list of "hey I can eat that!". If not I will eliminate it from my diet and start with vegetables and see if my stomach improves on that. Once I find what I can eat I will only eat that for a few days to give my poor stomach a break. Then I am going to slowly add foods one at a time to the diet and document if I am able to tolerate them or not.
Honestly at this point I do not know what else to do. I am just so tired of not feeling well. As sad as it is my only goal right now is to go a week without feeling bad. Just a week - not a month not a year - ONE WEEK!
I can only hope that my journey is going to help someone out there who is also trying to heal themselves spiritually, physically and emotionally.
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