Pee, Poop, Pass Out.... (Entry # 4)

So, I told you earlier that the GI doctor told me I had IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)....


(Taken from previous document of experiences)


Did I tell you?  With these IBS / period episodes, I slept very little, didn't want to eat, took many hot baths for relief and so I could urinate (yes, I urinated in my bath water and soaked in it), stayed on the heating pad, lost weight (the only plus) and looked like crap.  I spent my time between the bed, in the tub, on the toilet or sprawled out on the floor in pain.  The pain involved feeling like I had to have a bowel movement, going to the toilet and then straining and not being able to go and squeezing out urine instead.  So of course you know this meant I developed internal and eternal hemorrhoids on top of everything else. (Hooray!)  I would squat on the bathroom floor, in the bathtub or in a foot tub to try to get whatever was inside of me out and get some relief from the pain.


September, I found myself back in the emergency room.  I just drove myself because it would have taken friends too long to get to me and it was five something in the morning.  Thankfully the hospital is right around the corner from me.  I just prayed I didn't run off the road or hit someone or something.  Again, the hospital staff was great.  I got a shot of Demerol and life was good.  The emergency room doctor and I talked and he said that it sounded like I had endometriosis (endo what what?) and that I should see my gynecologist. [Hadn't I been seeing my GYN who sent me to a GI and a urologist?]  He prescribed me Percoset and instructed me to only take half a pill because this medicine is so addictive.


Well, by the time I was ready to leave the hospital, my parents had driven in from North Carolina to take me back to my place around the corner.  We went to the pharmacy to fill the prescription for the Percoset because I was in pain.  I had forgotten that the doctor told me to take half a pill.  While still at the drug store, my Dad also got me some water so I could go ahead and take the medicine.  I took one pill.  An hour and a half later, I was still in pain so I called the pharmacist and explained my situation and was instructed to take 2 Percoset.  I did and that was perfect.


I was finally without pain and able to sleep.  The next days were fine.  I was just tired / exhausted from the ordeal.