Well, I had my appt with the gastro doc today. He decided to go ahead and put me down for gastroperisis AND IBS. Why? Well after taking in all the facts of all my symptoms and doing the endo and the colonoscopy, as well as all the other tests I have had...it is obvious to him. Not to mention all three gastros that I have seen agree sort of just puts it out there. To him is seems like I have had IBS in the lower for years, which is true because I was dx with it back before I was pregnant with Josiah who is almost 11 yrs old...what? 11 yrs old? How on earth did that happen!!!?? Oh sorry.... My current symptoms and testing show gastroperesis. YAH!!! umm.....not. He wants me to live (eat) as though I have GP and treat myself as though I do so I can see if it makes a difference.
Also the endo (Feb 2012) and colonoscopy (last week), both showed some things.
Short Barretts Esophogus (precancerous cells)
Polyups (also precancerous) they aren't always ,but mine where. They were also quite large. I had a colonoscopy done 2 years ago and had none.
From this point I will need a repeat of both in 3 years. If nothing worsened then we can push it out 5 years. We will see what happens from here.
My Lyrica was approved faster than I thought so I am on it. Is it helping? I don't know. The doc said to give it a month and see what happens. The pains in my arms are not better. Sleep, I still have to take a Flexeril before I go to bed. I lay down and BOOM my mind starts going and going and going......... Frustrating. I will actually lay in bed totally exhausted and ready to sleep until 4 am!!! Ugh.
So as of right now it is still a waiting game in some respects. In others it is life changing. They don't want me to change things too fast or we won't know what is helping and what isn't. Understandable.
Again, your prayers are always appreciated. Feel free to leave any comments or questions! I will answer as best as I can.
I was put on flexeril when Jess was a toddler. I was carrying her and pulled a muscle in my back. I couldn't breathe as my lungs would not expand without killing me. I could not function on it and had to move my bed mattress to the lower level because I couldn't even walk up the stairs. I hope you are able to sleep with that! Praying for you!!!
ReplyDeleteIt does help. Hopefully I won't have to keep taking it. I only take it at night time. By the time I wake up it has mostly worn off. I do find it harder to get up and get going but that was already an issue anyway! LOL
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