Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Another Health update

Right now my whole life is revolving around my health, so that is what is ending up on the blog. Last week I had another Endoscopy. The hope was to figure out why I was nauseous. Luckily things went smoothly. They put me all the way out this time, unlike last time where I was awake but sedated. He came in and said that he took biopsies so that he can rule out anything else that may be causing the nausea. We are waiting to hear results on them. He said that my system is HIGHLY sensitive. He believes the persistent nausea is due to anxiety and stress. He also thinks the upset in my IBS is also due to that. I'm trying to rearrange things in my life to better deal with stress and anxiety as well as do what I need to for my body to be okay. Honestly, being told that I need to decrease the stress and anxiety is only causing me to be more anxious and stressed trying to figure out what are my stresses and how to change things. I guess that is what I will have to deal with while I work through it. He added another medication and the hope is that I will be able to get off the anti-nausea medication. Don't know how long that is going to take though. For now I'm trying to juggle my jobs, family responsibilities and the things I love. I'm hoping to get things under control though. I really didn't think that my life was out of control in any way. From what I am understanding, since I'm so sensitive, something that causes a little anxiety or a little stress is causing my body to react as though something huge and tragic was taking place. I have mixed feelings about wanting the biopsies to reveal something or not and I'm a bit emotional this week. I just want to feel good and be able to live a normal life!

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