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| Tue, 02-14-2006 - 2:42am |
Hey, I was lurking around and thought a lot of what was written sounded pretty good so I though you could help me out. For the last maybe 6 months my bowels have been quite irregular. It started as just gas and constant constipation, then I went back to normal BMs (Normal BMs for me are about every two days, always has been till lately) for awhile. Then it switched to where I'd go a week or more without anything and then it would be a sudden urgency where one min I'm fine and the next I'm rushing for a bathroom and it's diarrhea and just a small amount like maybe a tbsp. Lately it's been like everyday, extremly bad gas pains and diarrhea or very loose BMs never very much either. I've also been waking up with severe stomach pains like when you throw up over and over and you have nothing left in your stomach but you get those spasms except I'm not throwing up. That's happened about three times in the last two weeks. I thought at first that maybe I had eaten something not right but after the third I though back to what I had eaten that day. The first time it happened I'd had yogurt w/granola and a packet of instant oatmeal for breakfast and homemade mac and cheese for lunch. I didn't eat dinner that night, I went to bed early, I just had an apple for a snack after school and went to bed a couple hours later. The second time I'd had something similar for breakfast, don't remember what for lunch but nothing I hadn't had before and for dinner a had bought a roast chicken from the deli (I usually get one once a week, I know it was fresh cause I had to wait for them to take it out of the rotisserie and I know when the get their chickens in for the week and I go on that day) with mashed potatoes. I usually have some kind of herbal tea most nights. The third time it happened I had fettacine alfredo with shrimp for dinner. So it's been a variety of foods and all of them have been pretty bland. I've cut back on the spice I use in case that was it and I've increased my fibre and water intake thinking maybe I just wasn't getting enough but it hasn't seemed to help. This week I'm cutting out my dairy to see if maybe its a lactose intolerance (my sister has an intolrance so it could be as simple as that). I have a doctors app on the 22 for anual pap and thought I'd ask him about it then but in the mean time any ideas on what I might have or questions I could ask the doctor when I go see him?

Hope this helps!
Hope you feel better!
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