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| 2001-11-07 - 1:49 p.m.
Stomach Ache
This entry is going to be a lot about my stupid stomach and how it hurts. If that is too squicky for you, then you might want to move along. As I may have mentioned before, I have IBS. People like to make fun of this disorder, or tell people like me it's because we don't handle stress well, or don't eat right, or don't exercise, or need accupuncture, or more fiber, or less fiber, or should be eating coconut macaroons. None of those things is really accurate. We have anxiety and stress because we live our lives with time bombs in our guts. Is today the day I will get sick enough that I have to leave work? Hmm. I have a long car trip...hope I can make it ok. Oh no....a party....can't eat anything while I'm there. Remember the last time you had food poisoning? Ate a hot dog that was a shade long in the tooth? Remember how you had to stay home from work because of the pain in your gut and the trips to the bathroom? That's my life. Except it comes out of the clear blue. Seriously. One minute I'm fine, the next, get outta my way! And the doctors wonder why we have anxiety and depression problems. My life was really good last year, since I was taking Lotronex. But the Big Brother group Public Citizen decided it was too risky a drug, and made a big stink, causing the FDA to tell the drug company to put more restrictions on it, and do more studies. The drug company instead chose to take it off the market. So now thousands of people like me, who were practically CURED, are keeping the Imodium folks in business, and not even helping our problem. We have written, we have called, we have had meetings. Men (despite what some may tell you..>) won't die if they can't get it up, yet Viagra is still on the market, even though IT has had bad affects on some people. So what's my point? I guess I don't have one....I just want to whine. I may call my GI doc and see if we can try something else....but the thing is, there really ISN'T something else. I've inquired about a clinical trial in my area....would like to participate in that, hoping I can be lucky enough to get in the group of folks who get the drug. Whine, whine. All I want is to be like a normal person...to travel without freaking out about eating, to eat at a party, to not CONSTANTLY have a pain in my gut. That is all.
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