OK sorry in advance but this post's a bit of a downer ( Read more... )

Last night after recording Galactic Suburbia, I broke the toilet. The only remaining toilet at home - there are two. And the experience and how I felt about it ties into partly what we were talking about in counselling a week or more ago. I wanted to know if my OCD was related to the onset of my disease, as discussed here previously. It wasn't ( Read more... )

I finally took myself to the doctor this morning to deal with what seems to be sinusitis - "that nose thing" I've been complaining about for about 6 weeks now. I tried everything else in the hope that I could avoid taking antibiotics as these upset my Crohn's. My Crohn's has still not settled down after the Birthday Incident of 2010 ( Read more... )

The thing about chronic disease is it's all lollipops and rainbows till it isn't - and well, yeah it's not usually all lollipops and rainbows neither. After a good few months cutting out gluten as a main staple of my diet and after working on the whole 5 veg, 2 fruit thing and changing up my breakfast diet, I was starting to feel really good. Damn ( Read more... )

A MYSTERIOUS bowel disease thought to be caused by an over-exuberant immune system may paradoxically be triggered by immune cells that don't do enough in the early stages of bacterial infection.

Since some treatments for Crohn's disease aim to suppress the immune system, it's possible these drugs could be making things worse. Interesting. And the ( Read more... )

Last night at yoga I discovered I am in agony with my Crohns - it always strikes me as bizarre how you can just get used to a way of being, and for discomforts to just become background noise/stress. Since I tried a few moves last night whereupon I discovered my guts ache all the time with the occasional stabbing pain, I've noticed it as constant ( Read more... )

So I got hives both starting and breaking my fast this year. I was up till 3am this morning though to be fair, after I showered at 1am (I still love you fred_mouse for suggesting something that works in that hour of desperation), the itching went away and I was left with only regretting the strong coffee I had at 7.30pm ( Read more... )

I must say how very supported I suddenly feel at work by the next level up of management - just bumped into a manager for a different section who was worried and asked me how job hunting was going. She has given a couple of contracts out too this week. And it was on her advice that I sent my CV to the branch manager who passed it on when my soon to ( Read more... )

Had an attack at 1am. Was either the cherries in the rocky road (noooooo) or the "flavour" on the cracker biscuits in the spread at the Swancon meeting. Just had rice for dinner. This trigger and retrigger of the hives reminds me how stringent and diligent I had to be for years to avoid this stuff. And I am being reminded of all the little things ( Read more... )

Freaking hives came back!

Was either milo or choc chip cookies. Darn it.


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