Well . . . what I am going to write today is very different from what I would have wrote yesterday.
Yesterday I would have wrote that I was feeling okay. Not great, but okay. I've been experiencing barely formed stools, but I took one anti-diarrhea pill two weeks ago and it helped. (Sometimes I wonder if my intestines kind of forget how they are supposed to work and the anti-diarrhea pill helps remind them. I've never read that anywhere, it is just a "me" thought.) In my last health post, I wrote that I was having problems with dizziness. That did improve as the month went on.
However, today is not the same day as yesterday. It started about 4:00 a.m. this morning.
I woke up with my stomach making the most wild of sounds. Like a growling stomach, but louder and more growly, with the sounds going up and down in tone. I experienced a few sharp twinges, but nothing bad. At some point, I realized that this was probably the prelude to a fully loaded bout of diarrhea. Unfortunately, I was right.
Between 4:30 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., I went to the bathroom five times, messing my pants the fourth time. (Time to put a diaper on.)
I have no idea what caused this. I didn't eat or drink anything out of the ordinary. There is some extra stress in my life right now, but I learned a long time ago that stress doesn't affect my stomach.
The good thing is that there was no blood nor any pain. Just lots of diarrhea. And as I write this it has been over four hours since I had to go to the bathroom. I did just eat lunch, so we will see what happens in a few hours. My stomach is starting to get noisy again.
Our dinner last night was something I had just bought at the store that morning. I'm hoping that maybe there was something in the food that might have been bad, although my husband ate the same thing and did not have stomach problems.
Because there was no blood or pain, I do not think this is the start of a flare. That is a good thing, too. But as always, we will see.
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