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Jun. 17th, 2018 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe went out for breakfast this morning. We got to Bob Evans around 10:00 and got home about 11:30. We stopped at Kroger on the way home because Scott missed getting the toothpaste and dental floss that I had on the list yesterday.
I started feeling unwell about half an hour after we got home and have been in that weird stretched out time that goes with being sick and feeling like it's been days when it's been minutes.
I don't think it was breakfast; given the symptoms, it's much more likely to be something I ate yesterday. I started the new iron supplements yesterday, and I had 3/4 of an apple and about a cup of sugar snap peas. The apple ought to be fine because apples usually are. There were a couple of years when I had half an apple as part of my breakfast almost every day.
I took the iron supplement again today, so I suppose I'll know tomorrow if it was that or the sugar snap peas. I'm more suspicious of the peas because I don't usually have that many and because my body doesn't seem to like raw or partially cooked veggies all that much. Cooked to mush makes my digestive system much happier.
Of course, it's possible that it's just my body reacting to stress over the upcoming biopsy and the uncertainty. My anxiety manifests through physical symptoms like that much more frequently than it does in any sort of thoughts or emotional reactions.
My IBS gets worse when I eat much in the way of insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber tends to be okay, though. Vegetables are better very well cooked (this is a problem because Scott and Cordelia like crunch) with raw a pretty terrible idea. Beans need to be soft enough to be easily mashed with a little pressure (most canned beans work; most beans I try to cook don't). Whole grains tend to be bad, often very bad. Fruit juice-- thoroughly strained fruit juice-- is generally safer than actual fruit, and stone fruits are always safer than berries. Dairy's fine. Nuts are fine. Meat is generally fine.
When I'm having IBS trouble, the best thing I can do is to go to very, very simple carbohydrates. No fruit, no vegetables, no fiber, no meat, no fat, no dairy. One to three days of that will generally settle things and keep everything okay for a while. This, of course, is a huge problem in trying to get my A1c not to keep going up. It was 6.0 in May, up from 5.7 in January.
Now some of the things that are fine for the IBS are bad with regard to reflux. A lot of meat/fat is terrible for the reflux. A number of fruits and fruit juices are bad that way (most apple juice, for example. I'm generally better off drinking undiluted lemon juice than I am drinking an equal volume of apple juice). So are some vegetables, no matter how well cooked they are or aren't. Some kinds of cheese are risky, and butter always is. Vanilla ice cream, for some reason, is always safe and usually settles my stomach if I have reflux.
This is all complicated by my inability to swallow certain textures of food without a high risk of gagging. Applesauce, mashed potatoes, yogurt, oils, kefir, that sort of thing, my throat considers dangerous things that must be expelled. I can do something to trick that if I chew and if the substance is on the thicker side, but I can't swallow something like oil or kefir (or a bunch of medications at that thickness. Liquid antacids pretty consistently lead to my stomach trying to turn inside out).
I'm really hoping that the iron supplements aren't the problem. I can't go back to my multivitamins until, at the earliest, I get the biopsy results back. If I need surgery, I'll be off them quite a long time.
I'm running out of charge on my laptop, and my current cord isn't long enough to let me recharge safely in the bedroom, so I'll be putting the laptop to sleep until I can handle getting it to the living room to charge. It's not that I can't stand up; it's that it seems like a really, really unpleasant prospect.
I started feeling unwell about half an hour after we got home and have been in that weird stretched out time that goes with being sick and feeling like it's been days when it's been minutes.
I don't think it was breakfast; given the symptoms, it's much more likely to be something I ate yesterday. I started the new iron supplements yesterday, and I had 3/4 of an apple and about a cup of sugar snap peas. The apple ought to be fine because apples usually are. There were a couple of years when I had half an apple as part of my breakfast almost every day.
I took the iron supplement again today, so I suppose I'll know tomorrow if it was that or the sugar snap peas. I'm more suspicious of the peas because I don't usually have that many and because my body doesn't seem to like raw or partially cooked veggies all that much. Cooked to mush makes my digestive system much happier.
Of course, it's possible that it's just my body reacting to stress over the upcoming biopsy and the uncertainty. My anxiety manifests through physical symptoms like that much more frequently than it does in any sort of thoughts or emotional reactions.
My IBS gets worse when I eat much in the way of insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber tends to be okay, though. Vegetables are better very well cooked (this is a problem because Scott and Cordelia like crunch) with raw a pretty terrible idea. Beans need to be soft enough to be easily mashed with a little pressure (most canned beans work; most beans I try to cook don't). Whole grains tend to be bad, often very bad. Fruit juice-- thoroughly strained fruit juice-- is generally safer than actual fruit, and stone fruits are always safer than berries. Dairy's fine. Nuts are fine. Meat is generally fine.
When I'm having IBS trouble, the best thing I can do is to go to very, very simple carbohydrates. No fruit, no vegetables, no fiber, no meat, no fat, no dairy. One to three days of that will generally settle things and keep everything okay for a while. This, of course, is a huge problem in trying to get my A1c not to keep going up. It was 6.0 in May, up from 5.7 in January.
Now some of the things that are fine for the IBS are bad with regard to reflux. A lot of meat/fat is terrible for the reflux. A number of fruits and fruit juices are bad that way (most apple juice, for example. I'm generally better off drinking undiluted lemon juice than I am drinking an equal volume of apple juice). So are some vegetables, no matter how well cooked they are or aren't. Some kinds of cheese are risky, and butter always is. Vanilla ice cream, for some reason, is always safe and usually settles my stomach if I have reflux.
This is all complicated by my inability to swallow certain textures of food without a high risk of gagging. Applesauce, mashed potatoes, yogurt, oils, kefir, that sort of thing, my throat considers dangerous things that must be expelled. I can do something to trick that if I chew and if the substance is on the thicker side, but I can't swallow something like oil or kefir (or a bunch of medications at that thickness. Liquid antacids pretty consistently lead to my stomach trying to turn inside out).
I'm really hoping that the iron supplements aren't the problem. I can't go back to my multivitamins until, at the earliest, I get the biopsy results back. If I need surgery, I'll be off them quite a long time.
I'm running out of charge on my laptop, and my current cord isn't long enough to let me recharge safely in the bedroom, so I'll be putting the laptop to sleep until I can handle getting it to the living room to charge. It's not that I can't stand up; it's that it seems like a really, really unpleasant prospect.
