The start of this year has been a difficult one for me with regards to the condition i suffer and the amount of attacks i get. Normally as winter ends and spring begins i see a huge decrease in the amount of attacks i get in a day or week but for some reason this year it has been delayed. It could be due to the very mild winter we have had and as it wasn’t as cold as previous years there wasn’t such a dramatic change in the seasons as the warmer weather came. Thankfully they have started to decrease in number and i am finding i have more time in between attacks to recover and just get on with every day things. The attacks are still bad and i am averaging about 3 per day at the moment witch is a huge improvement to the 6 or 8 per day i was getting. I am still getting the early morning wake up call from the beast and no matter how hard i try and avoid it, and try and keep the flat warm at that time of the morning, i still seem to end up getting an attack during the early hours.
Again i have had to stop the medication the specialist have tried due to side effects and problems. Since i came out of hospital over a week ago i have been really ill. Not only was i suffering from side effect of the medication, and having panic attacks every hour, i was also suffering from catching an infection that made my glands swell up and gave me one hell of a sore throat. My stomach feels like it has been burnt inside and is red raw to touch. When i pass wind it feels like i am passing flames and burning through my clothes. What ever infection this is its a nasty one and i am now on antibiotics on top of all the other medication i am taking.
After being in hospital and taking loads of pain killers for a couple of weeks it has taken its toll on my bowels and they are worst than ever before. How people can go on everyday when they suffer from IBS is beyond me. When i get wind it always seems to travel around my insides causing me agony all the time and feeling bloated is the most uncomfortable feeling i have ever had. I had bad constipation when i was in the hospital and when i managed to force my bowels open i ended up passing lots of blood as whet i passed was hard and the size of walnuts. This probably caused a tear in the lining as i don’t suffer with piles and as soon as i informed the nurses i was put on laxatives and Senna to try and get them under control. The only trouble with laxatives is that for some reason it makes me blow up like a hot air balloon and i end up in pain from the wind. Talk about having a fussy system.
I am hoping with all the nice weather forecast over the Easter holidays, and the fact that they recon we are going to have a brilliant summer this year, i am going to try and get out and do some fishing at last. I have been late starting this year and there are loads of different venues i want to visit but due to the attacks i have delayed everything. I am now hoping that the decrease in attacks is my signal to start and i will be able to get out each week at a different venue and see if i can get myself a new personal record size fish. I have been so looking forward to starting my fishing this year mainly because of all the problems i have been having and to be able to get out in the fresh air and have a break from feeling ill all the time doing something that you love and enjoy. This is better than any medication or miracle cure, just to be out in the fresh air and sun taking in all the vitamins and making you feel 100 times better.
I am half way through my antibiotics course and have started to feel much better than i was yesterday. I am still suffering from the bowels and wind but the sore throat has eased a little and the glands have gone down. I am getting cold sweats every now and again but that's only to be expected with a viral infection. I am now back on the Pregabilin medication and have stopped the Lithium due to the problems i have had. I am still using the Sumatripitan injections when needed and Oxygen to help reduce and stop the attacks.I am now on the last leg of reductions with regards to the steroids the specialist put me on whilst in hospital so only one more week and they will stop. I am now booked to see the specialist again on the hospital ward on the 29th of this month. They have booked me on the ward so i don’t have to wait for appointments and they can get on with my treatment quicker. If i was to wait until they made an outpatient appointment it would be 3 to 6 months in between treatments and by doing it this way i am only waiting 2 weeks maximum.
