October 11, 2004
Tummy problems
The loperamide seems to be helping with the diarrhoea, but I still have the stomach pains. I had a very bland tea, but my digestive system doesn't seem to have liked it much. I'm fed up with this. I've already cut so many things out of my diet. It wouldn't be so bad if I was losing weight, but I don't think I am! I'm feeling very bloated, but I'm drinking a lot less 'fizzies' than I was, and I'm mainly drinking water. It's probably only irritable bowel syndrome & I've had that for most of the last twenty years off and on. It hasn't been this bad since before I had the hysterectomy (November 2001) though.
I suppose I should probably go to the doctor about my stomach problems, but I don't really want to. I'm a bit shy about having to show the doctor my stomach. I've had my chest listened to lots of times over the past few years, but I haven't had to show my stomach. I'm so fat and I'm not proud of it. I also don't fancy any more medical investigations right now. That lip biopsy has put me right off that sort of stuff, and what if the stomach doctor turned out to be like the horrible rheumatologist?!
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