My name is Atomicwoman.
Hi everyone,
First let me say what a wonderful forum you have here.
Since I was a young teenager I have had stomach issues. They attempted to do a colonoscopy when I was 17 but the pain was excruciating and they couldn't even make it past "the first bend" or so we were told. I also had an endoscopy during the same week and they diagnosed me with gastritis due to being anorexic. I did lose a lot of weight but I was NOT anorexic. Anyway my parents believed them and they no longer helped me with these issues or believed me... So I gave up pursuing anything.
Had a baby in 1999 and another in 2001. Things again got very ugly for me. I was insulin dependent Diabetic while preggers with our second child. After the baby I went from over 200lbs to 140lbs in a couple of months. I was exhausting, visiting the washroom a minimum of 10 times a day then I started loosing all bowel function in the middle of the night. So embarrassing when we are trying to find out what kid had an accident and it was you at the ripe old age of 22.
It took almost two years to figure out that I had graves disease and that was probably the cause of my very overactive bowels. So between then and know I have undetectable B12 even with shots, no iron stores, very high Cholesterol, high blood pressure (my normal is 130/100), Diabetic ( only fasting sugars are very high), eye inflammation and retinal degeneration, and still visit the washroom frequently. It comes in waves. 3 to 4 times a day is normal when I'm feeling well and 6 to 15 times when I'm not well. It always starts in the middle of the night with intense crapping and carries on through out the morning then settles about mid afternoon. Rinse repeat for a week or two then back to my normal thin stools until the waves come again.
So to make a long story short I got over my extreme fear of colonoscopies and had one yesterday. The prep made me extremely ill and in turn got the most extreme migraine I have every had. My app was for 7:30 in the am and I went in way before that begging for relief for the headache that seem to be causing me all the nausea and vomiting.
I go back to see the specialists on September 21st. I'm gonna be some pissed if this could have been caught way back when they blamed the issues on an eating disorder that I did not have.
Thanks for listening
Cheers,
AW
Hi everyone,
First let me say what a wonderful forum you have here.
Since I was a young teenager I have had stomach issues. They attempted to do a colonoscopy when I was 17 but the pain was excruciating and they couldn't even make it past "the first bend" or so we were told. I also had an endoscopy during the same week and they diagnosed me with gastritis due to being anorexic. I did lose a lot of weight but I was NOT anorexic. Anyway my parents believed them and they no longer helped me with these issues or believed me... So I gave up pursuing anything.
Had a baby in 1999 and another in 2001. Things again got very ugly for me. I was insulin dependent Diabetic while preggers with our second child. After the baby I went from over 200lbs to 140lbs in a couple of months. I was exhausting, visiting the washroom a minimum of 10 times a day then I started loosing all bowel function in the middle of the night. So embarrassing when we are trying to find out what kid had an accident and it was you at the ripe old age of 22.
It took almost two years to figure out that I had graves disease and that was probably the cause of my very overactive bowels. So between then and know I have undetectable B12 even with shots, no iron stores, very high Cholesterol, high blood pressure (my normal is 130/100), Diabetic ( only fasting sugars are very high), eye inflammation and retinal degeneration, and still visit the washroom frequently. It comes in waves. 3 to 4 times a day is normal when I'm feeling well and 6 to 15 times when I'm not well. It always starts in the middle of the night with intense crapping and carries on through out the morning then settles about mid afternoon. Rinse repeat for a week or two then back to my normal thin stools until the waves come again.
So to make a long story short I got over my extreme fear of colonoscopies and had one yesterday. The prep made me extremely ill and in turn got the most extreme migraine I have every had. My app was for 7:30 in the am and I went in way before that begging for relief for the headache that seem to be causing me all the nausea and vomiting.
I go back to see the specialists on September 21st. I'm gonna be some pissed if this could have been caught way back when they blamed the issues on an eating disorder that I did not have.
Thanks for listening
Cheers,
AW
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