It has now been three months since I was back on Rinvoq. And I think I am seeing some progress.
The pain that I felt when I wrote last month's update is gone. My stomach is still unusually gurgly (Is that a word? Microsoft Word says, no,) but not as much and it is diminishing.
The most encouraging sign is that four times in the past two weeks, my stool has been more solid. Like a 3.5 on the Bristol Stool Chart. (I'll take that!) The rest of of the time has been from thinly round to mushy. (Four to six on Bristol.) I'm hoping that I will continue to see stool improvement.
I'm still very tired and feeling blah. But that may just be the way my body is. Or it could be the winter weather. It is cold and gray and dark outside, and my body just doesn't function well in the winter. It's like walking through molasses or water all day long, fighting to move yourself forward through every step of the drag pulling on you. And despite wearing layers of clothes, I'm cold almost all of the time. But it was like that long before my colitis diagnosis.
I am cautiously optimistic, which is much better than last month when I was discouraged. We had a house full of people for Thanksgiving and everything went well. As of today, it feels like I should be okay for Christmas.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, I said that some gravies seem to cause stomach problems. I had no problems eating turkey gravy . . . thank goodness!
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