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It seems that every time I post here acting like I know what I'm talking about and have my IBS under control, I get an attack!
So yesterday, I fell asleep around 8 and woke up at like 10.... My stomach was bothering me so I ate a little applesauce that I warmed up, thinking it might help. I also had a really bad headache and my period. So I was trying to sleep, and at about 1:30 am I started to feel really naseous and like I was going to throw up. i was getting hot and cold chills (does that ever happen to anyone?) so I was like, maybe i'm really sick, maybe I have the stomach flu! I had taken some clonopin so I was also kinda out of it... and out of fear, I took 2 Pepto Bismal and 2 Antacids!! I still went to the bathroom about 3 times, and thankfully did not throw up. I have a huge phobia of throwing up, and I just wanted to get through the night without that happening.
I wrote to my friend online and he calmed me down. I fell alseep around 3 or so, woke up at 9:30 and I feel pretty good today. But man, it's like, what was that? Was that all created by fear? I doubt applesauce could do all that to me, considering I eat it freqently. I am going to see an accupuncturist today to talk about it and get a treatment. I don't like taking all those drugs. I think they are just a mask for a much deeper problem... Namely anxiety. I also know that taking weird naps at strange hours of the day messes up my body and sometimes my digestion too... so who knows!
Just wanted to share that with ya'll... good not to get too caucky and think we have our bodies figured out.. we can control them, understand them to an extent, but there is still a lot of mystery associated with them no matter which way you swing it! Same goes for our minds and spirits... beautiful and confusing.
Oh one more thing... my friend was supporting me by having me send love to my body and remembering the gifts it provides me with. He had me send smiles to the parts that were hurting. Also, I was thinking about how the pain I have experienced has allowed me to be the healer that I am... a "wounded healer." if I had no pain in my body, I would probably be a total superficial party animal. But the struggles I have gone through have made me a much deeper woman, and a human who has experienced life on a pretty full spectrum. Just wanted to throw that out there!
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#295971 - 01/10/07 05:35 PM
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So sorry to hear about your bout with whatever that was.  You know, I often have so many other symptoms that I'm never sure are IBS related (ie., the nausea, the chills, the fatigue). My family used to think I was a hypochondriac too. On occassion something like that will happen to me too. What did you eat earlier that day? Anything unusual before the applesauce? And yes, I think sleep patterns play a role too b/c I had never really thought about IBS getting worse from lack of sleep until I found this site, however, I always knew that I would be nauseous if I didn't get a good night's sleep (verified by the constant nausea I had during the early months of my babies' lives up all night  ). Perhaps you did just have a small stomach bug. Sand once replied to me when I had a night of d and chills after eating out that us IBSers and our friends/spouses/whoever could eat the same thing and we would get sick but they wouldn't b/c our bodies are so sensitive.
Also as a side note, I officially have microscopic colitis too and I was so violently ill this past summer for about 4 days passed out literally in bed with burning fever/then chills/d/couldn't even move. Turns out it was a virus but the doc. said she would put me on antibiotic anyhow b/c the colitis makes it harder for my body to fight things off or I tend to get the "minor" illnesses more severely than someone else. I thought that was interesting. Not sure how much science is behind it but it would fit the picture of my life.
Well, I sidetracked. Anyhow, I made an appointment with my doctor tomorrow (not the usual one that I love but a female who the nurse said is easy to talk to)...I'm going to present the whole thing including Heather's diet, etc. to her and see what she says about the Lexapro and Clonopin. I am relatively small too...about 115 pounds...not sure if that impacts on the mg. of meds but perhaps going up to 10 might help me. Thanks for your input. I'll keep you posted and feel better. 
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I almost always get chills with attacks of D (or the quasi-D I now get afterbeing on the diet and acacia), and I think there are other here that do, too.
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i used to get them randomly every mobth or two, and it would be in the middle of the night with the extreme nausea, i would go sit on the toilet and take off my clothes because i was so hot sweating , yet i had the chills, dumping a glass of watre over my head helped, then i would massage my stomach until about an hour later i would finally have a good bowel movement, then i would be pale and start to return to normal temperature, go back to sleep and wake up feeling tired but ok. the worst part ids the nausea that feels so real you are litteraly sitting near the toilet ready to go and i have a phobia of throwing up so it would make me sooo nervous. I sometimes would take a gravol, which is dramamine in the states. it is an anti emetal and anti nauseant, also helps you go to sleep after the attack.
i don't seem to get the attacks anymore, ecept if i eat something weird or really fatty.
You are not alone.
I tried every natural methos imaginable trying to stay off AD's as i hate them, butth eonly thing that lets me control my anxirty and ocd and stomach are the meds, sadly, it is a chemical issue, not a weakness issue, don't feel bad if you need them, it took me 2 long miserable years to come to that conclusion.
Bonnie
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Miso, I'm not sure if your response was to me or someone else in the thread but good to note that this should be thought of as a chemical thing and not a weakness. That's what I'm thinking..like you who wasted two years avoiding it, I may be avoiding it and wasting valuable time in my life. I just started doing yoga and I'm still doing the hypno. I went to a dinner party last night (15 people there  at the restaurant). I took just one immodium and ate super safely but felt like I had to "go" all day and even while there. I wasn't really that anxious though (it's so hard to say when an attack will come on...I was expecting it, I know, not good to think that way, but ironically I was alright). Luckily, I could "hold" it in sort of and then went to the bathroom twice with normal bms. Took another immodium at the restaurant b/c the bm made me nervous but I think I just had to go like a normal person. So I'm going to see if I have another attack any time soon and how often. I don't get up at night like you...mine usually precede some sort of event (which could strike many, many hours before it). Thanks for your response.
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