My doctors appointment didn’t happen and otherwise I’ve mostly been reading. When I stop reading I get cranky and pissy and my tone of voice sucks and I sound like a bitch. I feel guilty that when I apologize for my tone (which I’m doing every 2.4 minutes) Shanna says, “Mom you are only grumpy because your body doesn’t feel good. Soon you will get through the elimination diet and you will feel better. It’s ok.”
I don’t feel deserving of their patience or love. Never the less, Shanna has oceans of love and patience to give.
I feel confused and out of sorts and anxious. I feel like I don’t know what to do or when to do it.
For this week my plans are getting cancelled. I will choose to not get upset because I’m all out of fucks to give. We are supposed to show up to help decorate the Christmas tree at Christmas in the park Wednesday after my dentist appointment. I suspect that I will bail on the park tomorrow and I may bail on the Friday evening event (seeing Christmas in the park get all lit up). If I stay home for those two events then I have way more down time this week. I feel like I’ve been mostly having down time lately. Some day I will be less sick.
In the mean time, I’m prepared to say that I’m not allergic to milk nor wheat. I’ve eaten some of both over the past week. A fair bit. And chocolate. I had a lot of milk and chocolate yesterday. I’ve pooped normally for 4 out of the previous 5 days. I choose to believe that milk and wheat are cleared now. THANK GOD.
This is good and bad. I’ve been cutting wheat, dairy, fatty meats, corn, garlic/onion, sometimes nightshades (mostly not), eggs, and anything else gluten contaminated.
At this point I’ve tested everything but corn. I don’t suspect an allergy to corn. I’ve had normal poop after wheat, dairy, fatty meat, eggs, garlic/onion, and nightshades.
So where in the fuck does this leave me? I’m clearing up the diarrhea and I’m slowly adding things back in and…. I still don’t know if it is all in my head. It is really looking like I don’t have an allergy I have too much anxiety. Which is something I was terrified of finding out from the beginning. Because if all of my diarrhea is caused by anxiety and not food… that’s quite a circle to get into. Then the diarrhea is all my fault because I have anxiety. I’m sure someone more rational could find a way out of that cycle that doesn’t sound like, “Then I guess I should die” but I’m not that person.
I’m really god damn struggling with suicidal ideation. I’m struggling with how much I’m bouncing up and down emotionally. It is hard to hurt this much. It doesn’t help that I feel like a whiny baby. My life isn’t hard. It really isn’t. I don’t have the right to complain so much.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Fucking whine. Whine. WHINE!
I can’t even go for a run because my MOTHERFUCKING ANKLE HURTS. (Really I shouldn’t run until my weight stabilizes. One of my friends [one of the few who frequently sees me naked] commented that my weight loss is becoming really apparent. Not with the additional exercise.)
I haven’t cut myself. I haven’t had alcohol. I did medicate more severely than I have in a while. Whoa. Right now it feels like self-care.
I don’t know why I’m pooping normally right now and I don’t usually. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.
I find this all very frustrating. I feel terrible. BUT I CAN POOP!
Hey, you cut out vitamins a few weeks ago and haven’t added them back in, right? There are a few possible explanations here (you went on a pretty epic cleanse, maybe the woo stuff worked, maybe you haven’t had enough wheat/dairy/etc to trigger reactions) but I’d go with “fuck it, I can eat now” personally.
Given that in a week I need to do a lock down diet for a few days before the GI test, I’m going with “eat”.
If it’s a stress reaction and not an allergy then the good news is that you can eat whatever you like and take some back-you-up pills to handle the poop. Doing the the opposite for a few weeks helped teach my body what “normal” feels like and while I still tend towards constipation, I largely function normally without taking anything. It could help you, too.
More experimentation is in my future. And chocolate.