Wednesday, August 20, 2014

August 20th 2014.....3 months since my last post

Yeppers... Back again for another installment of this blog... It's been just over 3 months since my last update... This is going to be a consolidated version of the last 3 months because honestly I can't really remember all of the details of what's happened since then....but suffice to say that it's been a busy 3 months.. I had a colonoscopy done a couple of months ago and the prep for that is miserable as usual...but the thing that sucked is that the prep for it threw me into one of my episodes I get with the diarrhea and vomiting and just all around feeling like hell.. I lost my appetite for many types of foods and was barely eating anything at all...and consequently ended up dropping a bunch of weight... Over the last year and a couple of months I've lost 60lbs.....now, I'll say, I was up to over 211 lbs and I did want to lose some weight but certainly not the way I did... Colonoscopy came back fine fortunately but it took me a couple of weeks to get over the episode I was having... My Gastro doc had me do a bunch of blood work and then I had a CT scan done....During the CT scan, the tech told me that my doc would get my preliminary results later that day....and wouldn't you know, I get a text from my pharmacy the next morning for a prescription that I have ready.. I wondered what was up because I had not ordered anything....I called and I was told that I had two prescriptions called in from my doc....they were for Ulcerative Colitis. :-( So....I had the pleasure of finding out that I have U.C. ....not really what I wanted to hear, but on the other hand, perhaps this is the answer to the episodes I've been having off and on for the last 6 years.. My Gastro doc has also put me on another med too, to compliment the Nexium that I've been taking... This med is for Proctitis which is along the same lines as Ulcerative Colitis.... They are all part of an Irritable Bowel Syndrome.... I've had to change my diet entirely, now taking another med and then my doc also had me do an EGD to see if there was anything he could see in my stomach... Actually he said that it looked pretty good but then at the time, I was not having any problems either, so there was nothing for him to see.. I will say that this now explains why I've felt like crap for so long and had no energy and or incentive to do much of anything.... Since the testing and the new meds I have felt somewhat better...I just have to be diligent with my diet... One thing though, is that I've not really gained back much of an appetite so consequently my weight is staying pretty low... I'm going to close this for now...I have other stuff to update but I really don't feel like writing much else right now... For my music post.... Some good old motown.....The Undisputed Truth with Smiling Faces.. ......Till Next Time.