too weaks

There is a moderate excuse for not updating, I was in bed for about a week. Yuck. Pain and sickness galore. Needless to say the "dirt" is not really doing anything I can perceive as of yet. So last week I started another treatment out of desperation. It has a money back guarantee, that's gotta mean something, right? This week has been AMAZING. I only had diarrhea once this week. Mind you, I haven't really gone to the bathroom much this week (3x, yikes!) but maybe it will regulate itself and I can get back to being a normal girl soon.

I'm not drinking enough water, which, with the new treatment is a big no-no. Consequently I had the strangest and most painful kidney pain this week! I have never felt my kidneys pain before, but man alive they hurt! I combated by drinking more water and the kidneys have chilled. Gratefully. Sleeping was impossible with them throbbing.

Still no sign of the friends. However, tomorrow I go to get my endoscopy....finally! Stay tuned for results!

A Week in Review

Sorry, it's been a minute. This week was, again, good/bad. I'd say about 4 days diarrhea free (MIRACLE!!! ) I have not had the pleasure of that in about five months. The diarrhea is back though, about twice a day and not confined to the morning time anymore. The past four days have been terrible stomach pain. Two of which were spent in bed, and another day curled up in a chair. The pain is not burning pain as much as it is sharp piercing pain.

Still no sign of my friends.

Good news/Bad news?

Good news! It's been two days since I've had diarrhea!! Bad news is... I haven't gone to the bathroom in two days. Yesterday I had mild stomach pain. I have to say the pain has been much milder in the past week. Aaaaand... I finally got an upper scope scheduled. Ahhh yeah!

Day I've Lost Count

Okay, so I'm taking a large heaping teaspoon every night before bed. Still no difference. I can say my stomach has been feeling a little better these last two days, minor pain (4-5/10) each morn and night. Diarrhea is still Die Hard. No friends in sight yet.

symptomatic ecstatic

I have been reading symptoms related to gall disease, irritable bowel syndrome, pancreatic disease, ulcers, and many other disease and never found any that nailed my symptoms or explained what could possibly be going on in my body... until now. humaworm.com offers a list of symptoms that explain a lot that I have been experiencing that aren't found elsewhere.

Again... more self-deprecation.

-gas/bloating
-diarrhea
-abdominal pain
-hemorrhoids (for a month!!! It was so bad I was on a prescription)
-Burning Stomach (doctors could never explain why my stomach burned, it wasn't symptomatic of anything they knew of)
-lethargy
-itch skin/rashes
-itchy nose (this has been a symptom that I've never brought up but is very prevalent and I could never explain! As with the following symptom)
-unclear vision (I have suffered this from a young age, every once in a while--once a day or more--my vision will go unclear for a minute or two, like there is something on the surface of my eye, and then go away)
-allergies (never used to have those and have started carrying Benadryl on me this year because of reactions)
-hair loss
-disturbed sleep
-weight gain/loss (down 20, up 25, down 10, up 5.... in one year. I'm ready to stabilize.)
-muscle cramping
-numbness in hands
-pain in navel
-water retention (I'll drink tons and nothing will come out!)
-candida (never had that before this year)
-poor immune response (I can catch any and everything...try me)

A lot of unexplained symptoms were revealed when reading through this list, so I'm excited to see if the DE can clear these things up.

Blugh

So yesterday was day three and what a day! Definitely had the flu-like symptoms they were talking about would happen from upping the dosage. I went up to a full teaspoon and a half. I was weak, tired, nauseated , my head was beeping and didn't get out of bed until 6pm.

Today was GREAT! I had stomach pain that was about a 1-2 on the pain scale so I capitalized on that and played volleyball!!! And the old girl still has it. :) But then I was distracted by a chip wagon with fries doused in vinegar. Sometimes when I finally get to feeling good I get excited and I'll eat something that is actually delicious to me, and then it will launch me into a pyrotechnics show. I can't complain too much, had little to no pain for half a day! This is exciting! I even went for a walk/run later tonight...which ended in diarrhea. So... babysteps.

Talking to the fam and their condition, everyone is just peachy keen, no side effects... except for my 16 y/o nephew. He was in the bathroom 11 times today! I don't know if the two are related seeing as we're all taking the same dosage, but we'll probably learn more tomorrow. I could see it having more to do with his twin sister preparing his "dirt" (what we call the fossil shell flour in the fam) with an extra heaping spoonful. Ha ha. Sounds like an experiment I would try on my brothers :)

My mom, well she might be the first of us to have discovered success. She eats the same thing everyday so nothing really changes in the make up of her bowel movements but she claimed to see small pieces of something, like dark rice or caraway seeds. Interesting.

Day Two Times

It's just 10:30 am but I've had diarrhea twice in the past two hours. It's different than usual, much more loose, but still no sign of my little friends. I just took my third dose of DE. Yesterday was miserable stomach pain, not to mention I ate something that cut my throat that sent me to the clinic. But, I did get six letters written to missionaries, so it wasn't completely a bust of a day.