Juliamidlands
27-09-06, 09:30
Having one of my hypochondriac moments again, badly need reassurance....
I was recently diagnosed with IBS, have had the symptoms on and off for a few years now but in recent months the symptoms have become more severe. Certain foods set me off, as does stress/anxiety, something that has been aplenty this year :-( Two weeks ago my doctor prescribed Mebeverine for the, erm, IBS symptoms, I take one tablet three times a day 20 minuntes before meals, and the tablets seem to be helping a bit.
I am terrified that it is something more though. I keep googling bowel cancer and stomach cancer. I go through periods of feeling fine, full of energy etc and the next day (like the past couple of days) I can feel totally wiped out, sick, weak, shakey (not in the panic sense though), and SO tired.
What doesn't help is that I'm exhausted at the moment. I've not had a holiday all year as my other half and I have been waiting around for the house we are buying to get sorted, we are almost there thankfully and should be getting a completion date soon, for about three weeks time, fingers crossed. But the problems with the sale have been since last year and we've not booked any holidays due to false promises from the estate agents (for the house my boyfriend was selling, which is now sold thank goodness) so we've been living in the hope that 'we might be moving in a couple of weeks', since the summer of 2005!!!
Though finally it is actually going to happen, just waiting for the routine arrangements/paperwork to get sorted for the house we are buying and then we can arrange a move date. (And then it will involve moving, finding a new job, but thats another story, so I am sure then I will be back here moaning again!!)
Last weekend, I felt great, really awake and ok etc, but since Monday, I've felt sick, shakey, aching, sort of like you feel when you're getting a cold, or flu, but I've not actually got a cold?? If that make sense... the past few mornings I have almost phoned in sick but I had two days off sick in the week before last due to my IBS being awful (this was before I had the tablets) but I love the temping job I'm doing at the moment and I don't want to lose it, so I've dragged myself into work. I'm sitting here at the moment feeling like a zombie, my stomach hurts, I feel sick and I'm half asleep (even though I've been in bed early every night this week due to how I feel). Part of me thinks that maybe I've just got a virus/bug thing at the moment (my mum said her glands in her neck were hurting yesterday, and my mum hardly moans about anything health-wise, unless it is necessary), so maybe that is all thats wrong with me.
But I am so scared it is something else- though from my research on IBS I know it can make you feel very rough.
We have finally booked a holiday though, we are going to Center Parcs for 5 days, week after next, I can't wait but I desperately want to be well for that as we have booked various activities, and I just want my boyfriend and I to be able to enjoy the holiday, I can control the IBS symptoms ok but I hate feeling like I've just explained. It's driving me mad and I just dont know how I can go from feeling great, to feeling totally wiped out the next day.
Sorry for moaning :-( and thanks for reading this far!!
J x[xx(]
'Never be afraid to try- remember, amateurs buit the Ark...professionals built the Titanic'
I was recently diagnosed with IBS, have had the symptoms on and off for a few years now but in recent months the symptoms have become more severe. Certain foods set me off, as does stress/anxiety, something that has been aplenty this year :-( Two weeks ago my doctor prescribed Mebeverine for the, erm, IBS symptoms, I take one tablet three times a day 20 minuntes before meals, and the tablets seem to be helping a bit.
I am terrified that it is something more though. I keep googling bowel cancer and stomach cancer. I go through periods of feeling fine, full of energy etc and the next day (like the past couple of days) I can feel totally wiped out, sick, weak, shakey (not in the panic sense though), and SO tired.
What doesn't help is that I'm exhausted at the moment. I've not had a holiday all year as my other half and I have been waiting around for the house we are buying to get sorted, we are almost there thankfully and should be getting a completion date soon, for about three weeks time, fingers crossed. But the problems with the sale have been since last year and we've not booked any holidays due to false promises from the estate agents (for the house my boyfriend was selling, which is now sold thank goodness) so we've been living in the hope that 'we might be moving in a couple of weeks', since the summer of 2005!!!
Though finally it is actually going to happen, just waiting for the routine arrangements/paperwork to get sorted for the house we are buying and then we can arrange a move date. (And then it will involve moving, finding a new job, but thats another story, so I am sure then I will be back here moaning again!!)
Last weekend, I felt great, really awake and ok etc, but since Monday, I've felt sick, shakey, aching, sort of like you feel when you're getting a cold, or flu, but I've not actually got a cold?? If that make sense... the past few mornings I have almost phoned in sick but I had two days off sick in the week before last due to my IBS being awful (this was before I had the tablets) but I love the temping job I'm doing at the moment and I don't want to lose it, so I've dragged myself into work. I'm sitting here at the moment feeling like a zombie, my stomach hurts, I feel sick and I'm half asleep (even though I've been in bed early every night this week due to how I feel). Part of me thinks that maybe I've just got a virus/bug thing at the moment (my mum said her glands in her neck were hurting yesterday, and my mum hardly moans about anything health-wise, unless it is necessary), so maybe that is all thats wrong with me.
But I am so scared it is something else- though from my research on IBS I know it can make you feel very rough.
We have finally booked a holiday though, we are going to Center Parcs for 5 days, week after next, I can't wait but I desperately want to be well for that as we have booked various activities, and I just want my boyfriend and I to be able to enjoy the holiday, I can control the IBS symptoms ok but I hate feeling like I've just explained. It's driving me mad and I just dont know how I can go from feeling great, to feeling totally wiped out the next day.
Sorry for moaning :-( and thanks for reading this far!!
J x[xx(]
'Never be afraid to try- remember, amateurs buit the Ark...professionals built the Titanic'