I'll save you (and me, frankly) the embarrassing details. Suffice to say that the erythromycin pretty much ripped my insides apart for a few days. I guess when the doc said it would stimulate my stomach and bowels, he wasn't kidding or messing around. We're talking...
Had a follow-up with my regular doc on Monday. Saw him back on the 15th to check out the odd white coating on my tongue. A couple people had asked if I had been checked for candida (a yeast in your body that...
So, yesterday (Thursday), I go see my regular doc. I'm on the Reglan the GI doc put me on, no idfference yet, but friends are saying, "have you had anyone check for a candida fungal infection?" Nope, says I. Whatever. It can't hurt to ask,...
Got back at about 5:00 pm from my GI doc appt. The capsule endoscopy shows that there is ileitis involved in my diagnosis, but does NOT find it consistent with Crohn's Disease. So, he believes that I most likely do NOT have Crohn's, but am...
The long-awaited results of the camera endoscopy done back on March 16 were supposed to be revealed today at a 2:45 doctor's appointment. However, the doctor's office called twice today, and the appointment has now been changed to tomorrow at 3:45, due to emergencies he...
I didn't feel it because the boys and I were on the freeway toward Indio, but what a wild thing to have an earthquake on Easter! What a great reminder that we are NOT in control of life around us and that anything can happen...
It has now been 12 weeks since my stomach went sour on me. Though I quickly realized something had been going on at least since Christmas Day (the 5 am lower left abdomen attack), it was January 9 that constant nausea and pain set in. The...
That was the movie ...
The day ended without much fanfare, which is fine with me. It ended up being a fairly redemptive day actually. Yesterday was our 24th anniversary. Colleen had to work in the evening and I wasn't feeling too well, so we didn't do much. Today turned...
It's 8:30 am and Colleen and I are at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. We left home at 5:00 am. At 8:00, I swallowed the camera for my capsule endoscopy. As you can see in these pictures, they even had it hooked up to the...