On an unrelated note, just when I got the courage up to go and apply for the police officer job here I get told the only accepted applications through July 2nd. Bummer.
I did have a really bad stomach cramp about a week ago, but it was nothing like a Crohn's cramp. I think I took too many iron pills with a potassium pill and combined it was not fun.
6-26-99 I'm starting to wonder if I might be having a little arthritis flare up. I have some tenderness in my thumb joints, my left knee is tender, and the bottom of my feet are a little sore. I don't know if it is just because I've been on my feet at work so much for the past month or if it Crohn's related. I'd also like to tell you that in the future I'm going to archive this diary so it doesn't get too huge on this page, but not immediately.
6-12-99 Well, it's June and the weather is finally starting to be really nice. However, I am in summer school for the first time in my life trying to make up for the semester I missed while in the hospital having my resection. My abcess is still gone and there is no pain when I go to the bathroom. My blood count is at a record 12.9 for the hemoglobin (yay!) and my white count is holding steady at 4600. I feel darn good.
5-25-99 I'm happy to say that my abcess has been pain free for almost two weeks now. It looks like the antibiotics have helped heal the mess down there. I'm starting to feel like I can function like a normal person again. No pain when I go to the bathroom and that's most important. I thought I might have to sit through eight weeks of summer school paying more attention to my ass than what was on the black board. I'm just praying I can keep this infection away. God, did it ever hurt!
5-14-99 I'm sorry to inform those of you who have been tracking my disease with me that I do not have a hemerrhoid. In fact I have a fistula in my rectum, totally from the Crohn's disease. I'm feeling really sad today and even cried a little bit. I guess I can look forward to a life of pain and irritation. My doctor has decided to put me on an antibiotic for six months and he has risen my dosage of 6-mp back to 150 mgs. If my rectum doesn't heal up in a week I can look forward to draining the abcess in my butt and having corrective surgery done to the fistula. Sorry if I sound a little down today. It's hard to keep up a front for so long without breaking down once in a while.
5-4-99 Wow. Almost a month without updating. I'm sorry I'm being so pokey, but I've been battling a hemorrhoid that won't go away. Talk about pain! I sort of developed my little friend a little over two weeks ago and it really hasn't let up. I guess that's what going to the bathroom eight times a day does to a person. Boy, does my booty hurt.
Anyway, my white count is back up around 4600. I'm on a lower doese of 6-mp now. The hemoglobin count is still a little low at 9.9, but it's improving. The energy is really coming back to me. I purchased a small weight bench last week and 100 pounds of assorted free weights. The work out I'm doing is light right now, but I'm gradually improving. I hope to be totally buff and tan by the time the fall semester starts.
4-7-99 Uh oh. My white count is extremely low--hovering right around 2000. That's not good. My doctor's nurse informed me that they want to stabalize the white count at about 3500. What this means is I'll probably have to cut back on my 6-mp dose.
4-6-99 I just got back from getting my blood drawn. I am really hoping my hemoglobin count is higher than it was last time. The weather here seems to be affecting my allergies. Slight headaches, runny nose, sinus pain. Still, it's better than any Crohn's complications. Everything on the front is still really good. No cramps or pain, no fevers. I still am going to the bathroom quite often, but I am able to control it more and more as each day passes. On an even brighter note, last night at work I got a burst of energy that I haven't had in ten years. I was absolutely elated with how I was feeling and even asked my boss if I could work late (she said that was fine)! For once in a long time I didn't get off from work and feel completely exhausted. I was so happy with myself I went out looking for a small weight bench so I could start working out a little bit.
3-25-99 I just thought I would bring you up to date on my post surgery way of life. I returned to work at Target last week. Luckily for me, my boss was only scheduling me for three hour shifts. She said she wanted to ease me back into work. I though it would be no problem, but after sitting around the house for eight weeks straight I was in for a long night. The first night I came back to work I was totally exhausted. I came home and collapsed on the couch and couldn't get up for an hour. My legs ached for days afterwards, like I had run a marathon. I've been back to work for two weeks now and things are getting better. My body is getting used to its old routine. As for my actual stomach, one thing I've noticed is that I can't eat as much as I used to. I get full after a small meal. This is quite a change because I'm used to eating a lot more often. My doctor said this would happen because of how much intestine they took out.
3-10-99 My days of rest and relaxation are slowly coming to an end. I return to my job on Monday and I am somewhat ready to get back to work (since I'm not going to school). I've decided to take one course at the university this summer and then a full load in the fall. Earlier, my doctor said that my hemoglobin was still low (9.8). Normal hemoglobin should be around 12, so he started me on some iron pills. I see my surgeon again tomorrow, most likely for the last time. Everything is going really well.
3-2-99 I go and see my gastroentologist tomorrow. I'm curious to see what my blood count is. When I was released from the hospital my white count was around 2800 and my hemoglobin was 8.8--both counts of which are really low. Anyway, I'm still feeling really good. I can walk straight now, which helps my back muscles, and I can still eat anything I want without having any pain. Five more days and I'll be off the prednisone--something I've been on almost constantly since April of 1998. Graduly I'm gaining weight, too. I was up to 170 pounds, went into the hospital at 162, and left at 150. I'm currently at 158 pounds. My appetite is good, but I still can't eat the quantities I used to.
2-24-99 I can't tell you all how much better I feel inside. It is like a whole new world for me. I can finally eat and drink without having to feel food and water move through my entire digestive system. Plus, I don't have to listen to my stomach gurgle and fizz all night. It's amazing. I have been able to eat food and I haven't had any pain. I hope and pray every night that I can live this way for a long time.
I go see my surgeon tomorrow and get my stitches removed. You can see by the picture at the right that I'm gonna have a nice, little scar on my belly. I can't wait to scratch it. It is pretty itchy feeling right now. My stomach muscles are still pretty sore, but they are getting better every day. My biggest problem is standing up straight. I'm kind of slouched over right now because I'm still a little wary of totally extending my stomach muscles.
2-18-99 Wanna hear what happened with my surgery? It goes like this:
I was admitted to hopital on 2-9-99 for pre-operation stuff. This was mostly to ensure that my bowel was cleaned out. They gave me lots of laxative to drink and pretty much nothing to eat. It cleaned me out pretty good. Then, right before bedtime, I was given an enema--which wasn't half as bad as I thought it was going to be. My rectum was a little sore from going to the bathroom all day so the enema only felt uncomfortable going in. Other than that, it wasn't so bad. A few minutes later I was hooked up to an I.V. and sent to bed. I asked if I could have something to help me sleep since I was a little nervous about my surgery in the morning and they obliged by giving me some Ambian.
I woke up around seven in the A.M. the next day. My dad was the first one there, then my girlfriend came, and finally my mom. I chatted with them all a little bit. Around 8:00 A.M. the nursing staff came into prepare me. I took off all my clothes and jewelry and I was given a shot of something to relax me. I then was wheeled down to the pre-operating room where I would get my anastethic. I remember going down in the elevator and being placed in the pre-op room with two other patients. It was very quiet in there as I remember. The last thing I remember was getting a plastic cap put over my head then I was out. I woke up in my room and remembered seeing my mom jabbering away to someone. It was all pretty blurry.
As it turns out, I had quite a bit of stuff wrong with me, including two things weren't related to Crohn's disease. After inspecting my ENTIRE system, the first thing the surgeon encountered was a finger-like pouch attached to my system. I'm not sure of the spelling, but it was called Meter's diverticuli. Basically what that is it's a finger-like formation that is growing off part of the intestine and it acts like a pouch and can catch certain things (like seeds and whatnot). Things can collect in the pouch and it can get inflammed and irritated. I guess only one or two percent of the population has this condition. It was snipped off.
Secondly, and more terrifying than anything, I had a congenital birth defect that had part of my small intestine twisted around my appendix to the point of OBSTRUCTION. This was not good, and my surgeon informed me that this would have been reason enough for surgery, yet the only way they found it is because they opened me up for Crohn's! It hadn't shown up on any X-rays. The complications that could have arrison from this are horrible. Had I waited any longer, say maybe a few months, blood to my intestines could have been cut off and gangrene would have formed. I would have had to have my entire digestive removed and would have had to live off an I.V. twelve hours a day for the rest of my life! They fixed that and removed my appendix. Whew!
And of course they removed the diseased part of my bowel, too. All in all, I believed they took out 19 inches.
I don't remember too much a couple of days after the surgery. I could see people talk to me, but I couldn't reply. They had me on a lot of morphine, which made me sick. I was then switched to a demerol pump and that was much better. I'm still pretty sore from the whole ordeal and it really hard for me to stand straight. I lost a lot of weight, but I'm sure it will all come back.
One final note: I at rice for the first time in ten years and it didn't give me a stomach cramp. I'm so happy.
One more final note: I would like to thank all my family and friends who supported me through my little suregery: Dad (who was there for me every morning and brought me the newspaper). Thanks Pop! Mom, you worry too much but I guess that's what mothers do. Heather, who puts up with all my stomach problems. Royd, who also has Crohn's and has had this surgery, was way cool in letting me know what I should expect. Thanks dude. Thanks Josh, Heidi S., Heidi D., Kristal, Chris S., all the people (and demonations) who prayed for me, and all of you cool people who check my website out and wrote me notes of encouragement. Thank you SO much!
Now, bring on the steak!!!
2-7-99 Today I get to start on the infamous clear liquid diet. That means I can eat or drink anything I can hold up to the light and see through. Basically that means water and jell-o. It's early in the morning and I'm already starving. I'm used to eating a lot lately, so this might be a little rough on me. I get to check into the hospital tomorrow so I probably won't be updating the site until I get back home. I will let everyone know what the surgeon took out and everything else.
2-1-99 I recently got back from meeting with my surgeon today. I go in into the hospital on February 9th and have the surgery done on the 10th. It's a little longer than I wanted to wait, but I guess that's okay. I'm a little nervous, but not much. My surgeon basically told me things I already knew, like this is not a cure, and things like that. He also warned me I might have to have a stoma (a colostomy bag). He said that it's not likely, since they were just going to do a resection, but it is possible. Then again, anything is possible. All in all, I should be in the hospital seven days.
1-28-99 My weight has really come on as of late. I now weigh a record 172--which I'm pretty happy about. Although ten pounds of it is probably water retention. I'm pretty puffy in the face from the prednisone and my joints are swelling up pretty good, too. Still, eating a Monster Burger from Hardee's every day is also a contributing factor. There's 1080 calories in one of those bad boys. I've been trying to get as much weight on as possible because I'm probably going to lose a lot after the surgery.
1-24-99 I'm starting to get some heavy side effects from being on such a high dose of prednisone for so long. My face has completely swelled up because my body is retaining a lot of water. My joints (mostly my knees and knuckles) are also feeling very tight because of the water retention. I guess I've never really had too many problems with this medicine in the years past and now I think it all might be catching up with me. Oh well. I guess I'v had it good for so long I shouldn't complain. I went and got my picture taken for my Sam's Club card membership and I swear my face is so fat and puffy I look like I weigh 280 pounds! I shouldn't have smiled because that made my cheeks puff out more.
It's also at this time I would like to thank all of you with Crohn's who have e-mailed me the notes of encouragement. It totally helps me through the day knowing that you guys are out there and that the support is there. Thank you all so much. You all have have had a hand in calming my fears concerning my impending surgery. I really appreciate it.
1-18-99 My X-rays are looking pretty bad. My doctor has now referred me to a surgeon. I will meet with the surgeon on February 1st. I was hoping to get in earlier but I guess I will have to wait. When I talked to my doctor he said that by looking at my X-rays it would be a difficult operation, but the surgeon he is having me go to has done this many times. I hope so. I guess it's good that I have to wait two more weeks because everyone I have been around has the flu and that's something I can't get if I'm going to have surgery. I'm constantly spraying Lysol! So, unless I get a blockage, I suppose I'll have to wait a while to get this out of my stomach.
1-12-99 I went in for a small bowel X-ray today and it took four hours for the barium to move through my system. That's how restricted it's been. I guess I should let everyone know reading this that last week I went into see my doctor and he said that it's probably time I've had surgery. The medicine is failing to control my fevers and cramps and it's about time I had a resection done. I'm actually looking forward to getting rid of this damned diseased part of my intestine. I'm hoping it will make me feel better for a while. Perhaps I can get five years of no symptons. I would just love that. Some bad news, I had to drop out of school for the time being. Coming off my best semester ever, I was disappointed in withdrawing from school. Looks like I'll be going to summer school.
So now I am awainting the results of my X-ray. Then I'll speak with my doctor tomorrow and see what he says. I'll keep things posted here.
1-5-99 I've started to get some strange stomach cramps now. These are occurring higher up in my digestive system. This is NOT how I wanted to start the new year and the new semester. I think I'll give my doctor a call next week and get into see him. I have a feeling I'll be getting another upper G.I. That's where they take X-rays of my upper gastro-intestinal track. It's a pain the ass--sometimes literally. Most of the time I just have to drink three 36 ounce cups of barium, but occassionaly I have had air literally pumped into my colon. You would not believe the pain that is! I also had a slight fever the other day. Oh, and I have a cough that will not go away. I've said this before, it takes me four weeks to fully get rid of a lung infection. I have no doubt that pneumonia will be my doom one day.
12-14-98 Despite the fact that I was dizzy and light-headed all day yesterday, I am feeling really well when it comes to my stomach. In fact I haven't had a cramp since last night. Do you realize how fantastic that is? I normally have a few slight cramps every hour and to be cramp free for over six hours is what I consider a miracle. I'm even getting up the courage to eat an orange later on tonight. I think the 6-mp does weird stuff to my head. Oh well, I'll take it if I can live a life free of cramps.
12-6-98 I'm still feeling pretty good. The stomach cramps have become less frequent. I'm still a little tired. Right around two o'clock, or three in the afternoon I usually get really sleepy. I've started to take more iron and now I'm taking calcium pills. Prolonged use of prednisone can harm the bones so I'm doing my best to prevent that. On a good note, I haven't had a fever in a long time (knock on wood)!
11-20-98 Up and down, up and down, up and down. That's pretty much how my health is. The doctor put me on 60 mgs of prednisone a couple of weeks ago. Now I'm at 30 mgs. However, I have been feeling really good. My energy is up, my appetite is up, and I'm gaining more weight. I actually think I might have to go to a size 33 waist for my jeans!
11-4-98 I'm sick. My blood count was getting dangerously low so I've had to adjust my dosage of 6-mp. Instead of taking 175 mg, I'm now on 150. I'm also developing an ulcer on my tongue. That means eating will be extremely painfull. The cramps are getting worse, too. Sometimes I think about my time in the hospital and I wonder why they just didn't cut it all out? I get so frustrated sometimes, and maybe a little angry. I can't plan on doing anything. Will I ever get better?
10-18-98 Well, I'm back on prednisone and I'm on an even higher dose of 6-mp (175 mgs). It just seems like things are progressing in the wrong direction. It seems like I can't stay healthy for even a month. That's sucks. But as long as I don't get the ulcers on my tongue, or the arthritis in my spine I can handle it.
9-22-98 Wow. It's been a long time since I've updated. I had some bad cramps a week ago, started to get real nausea late at night and early in the morning (maybe I'm pregnant), vomited a few times, and started getting slight fevers. The fevers scared me the most because that's what sent me to the hospital last. They have gone away (thank God). The nausea has subsided, too. In unrelated news, I took the hardest exam I have EVER taken in my criminal investigation class today. I'm praying to our Lord, Jesus Christ, that I get at least a "B" on it.
8-11-98 Here's another little note just let you all know how I'm feeling. I have been feeling super-good lately. No cramps, no pain from eating something, no bad trips to the bathroom. I really should knock on wood just in case I'm jinxing myself. I haven't felt this well in a long time. I even ate a banana splint the other night, and even though I developed some gas from it I had no major problems. I still can't sleep comfortably on my stomach yet, but I hope that will come with time. I'm still on a small dose of prednisone and my cheeks are getting a little chubby looking, but that's okay.
8-2-98 Just a little note to let you know that I am finally up to 160 pounds. I haven't weighed that much since my first year of college when I was 165. I would like to gain another 10-15 pounds just to be safe. Gotta keep eating! Gotta keep eating! Remember: snacks are good. I have also started a routine of doing push-ups and sit-ups before I go to bed every night. Hopefully I can tone my gut up!
7-21-98 I'm feeling better everyday, despite the fact that I am reducing my intake of prednisone. I am starting to get two little ulcers on my tongue, but they haven't gotten to the point where they blister. It's a little uncomfortable, but I can still eat without pain every time I chew something. The stomach cramps have been greatly reduced. The 6-mp is making me gag occasionally, but I can handle that. Now I'm just waiting for the results of my latest blood test.
On a seperate note, I water skied (flopped) for the first time this weekend. I inhaled a lot of water, let me tell you.
7-12-98 Just thought I would bring you up to date on my health status. I'm still not feeling 100 percent yet. That trip to the hospital really wore me out. Right now I'm taking 30 mg of prednisone, 12 tablets of Asacol, and 150 mgs of 6-mp. I'm still trying to get my white count down to around 4,000 and I'm currently at about 7,000. The doctor said if my white count doesn't get that low the 6-mp will do absolutely no good. It's like you're not even taking it. As for these problems I'm having with my tongue, they are pretty much gone now. After I started taking Flagyl I got some weird coating on my tongue. It was determined that it wasn't Thrush, but I still don't know what it was. I quit taking the Flagyl and it went away. Hmmm...
6-30-98 I thought I was going to die on June 28, 1998. I had one of the worst Crohn's attacks ever and was admitted into the hospital for the first time with this disease.
Ever since June 19th, I had been running a fever. The fever wasn't going away so I decided to go see my doctor about it. I went in and we talked and we both felt it wasn't Crohn's related because I didn' have any stomach cramps and I wasn't having any diarrhea either. My doctor then told me that I should keep taking Tylenol for my fever and come back if it didn't go away.
The following nights my chills would get worse and my temperature in the mornings was increasing a degree ever day. I started out with a temp of 101.5, the next day it was 102.5, the next day 103.8. Then the cramping really started to hit me hard, followed by the watery, phlegmy diarrhea.
Saturday morning, with my eyes burning from my body temperature, I called the gastroenterologist on call and told him what was going on with me. He said meet me in the E/R in hour. Once there the doctor thought I probably had an abcess and I needed a CT scan to make sure. In the meantime they were going to hospitalize me and hook my up to an I.V. and feed me fluids and antibiotics.
The nurses started me out on Tylenol for my fever that day, but it didn't bring my fever down. Then they gave me Ibuprofin. That seemed to work a little in the late afternoon, but when night rolled around and my fever began to spike that didn't help either. My bed and clothes were drenched with sweat, my eyes felt like they were one fire. It would burn if my eyes started to water. My head felt like it was going to pop right open and my face felt like someone was pressing a hot washcloth on it.
The nurses would come in every couple hours and take my temperature and they kept getting more and more worried. Right around midnight Saturday, when my fever was hovering over 104, one of the nurses was almosting demanding that I get put into an ice bath. She kept saying "we've gotta do something, NOW!" Pretty scary coming from your nurse, huh?
So I layed in bed. I was glad they allowed Heather to sleep in the bed next to me because I thought I was going to croak and I didn't want to die alone. I thought for sure my organs were going to start to fail and that I was about to go into seizures. The nurses had the air conditioning in the room set to the coldest possible temp and I was still burning up. All I could think about is what my obituary was going to look like in the paper.
I somehow managed to live through that night. My CT scan revealed, and I quote my doctor: "a whole lot of Crohn's, all tangled up and inflammed." So there wasn't any abcess. I was a little disappointed. I thought maybe I would have to have surgery and I was going to be rid of this crap for a while. Not this year, I guess. Instead I was fed steroids directly into my I.V. and the fever went away almost instantly.
6-12-98 I finally went in and got my blood checked today (I also ran over a nail going to the clinic). I don't know how it's going to turn out since I've been sick with a cold for the past month. I also sort of freaked out when I thought I was developing thrush on the inside of my mouth. Dr. Chu, my gastroentologist, said because I'm on so many immune system suppressant drugs I could develop weird things like thrush. Fortunately for me, the strange feeling I had on the back of my throat is gone. I also had Heather look in my mouth the other night and she couldn't see anything strange. I have had so many weird sores and bumps in and on my tongue and mouth I can't harldy name them all. Those tongue ulcers are the worst! Now lets hope my blood count comes up all nice and good!
6-5-98 My stomach is starting to cramp again. Like I've always stated before, it seems to be that whenever I get down to 20 mgs of prednisone I start to tighten up in the gut. This time is no different. Although today hasn't been too bad, yesterday and the day before I didn't feel very good.
6-2-98 Stocks soared the other day for CENTOCOR coporation when the Food and Drug Adminstration approved usage for a new drug to treat Crohn's Disease called AVAKINE (infliximab). Avakine is used to heal fistulas, or holes, that form in the intestine. I had one this past summer, but doses of prednisone seemed to help it heal up. Avakine has also been reported to put a crohn's patient into remission after four weeks of treatment. I'm always happy to hear about new drugs or treatments. I actually saw this news story on CNN! Pretty cool, huh? You can read more about it at CNNfn.com.
5-27-98 I went down to 20 mgs of prednisone on Saturday. When I get down that low on my meds I usually start to get some stomach cramps. This time is no different. Not that they have been very painfull, but it is more of a feeling that the Crohn's disease is letting me know that it is still there. I think I get used to eating a lot of foods I don't normally eat when I'm on a higher dose of prednisone, then when I go down the foods with more fiber and ruffage start to bother me more. I also have a tough time trying to lay on my back while I'm in bed. The lower right side of my abdomen inflates up and down like a ballon every time food passes through the inflammed part of my intestine. It's not really painfull, but it is certainly uncomfortable (and it looks weird, too). I'm hoping the extra dosage of 6-mp will start to kick in.
5-20-98 My sore throat is gone (hurray!), but my head cold is still here. My stomach aches are still gone and I hope they stay that way. I have to remind myself to get my blood tested tomorrow. That's something I have to do twice a year because of the 6-mp. Since it's a form of chemotherapy it can have pretty bad complications, like having your liver shut down, or I could quit producing some types of blood cells in my bone marrow.
5-18-98 My stomach feels good, my throat feel bad. Yesterday, right after church, I started to get a terrible sore throat. I can't help but think that whenever you shake other people's hands in church you are getting some nasty germs. That's why I don't like baptisms. I guess my complaint is quite trivial, but I don't like to "share the peace" with those around me. Anyway, I can't help but think that being on two immune system suppressant drugs is going to do me in. After being germ free this winter, when everyone else was sick, I guess it is now my time to get sick so maybe I shouldn't complain. Afterall, as long as my stomach feels good I am a happy man.
5-11-98 I am still feeling really good, even though I have come down on my prednisone. I am now taking 30 mg a day. I will probably feel pretty good for another ten days. It seems like whenever I get down to 20 mgs of prednisone I start to feel sick again. Still, I'm hoping the increase in the 6-mp will stop that. My appetite is still very good and I've already gained about seven pounds.
5-4-98 I am feeling much better now that I have been taking my prednisone pills. It really is an amazing drug. I was feeling so horrible last Friday until I took the prednisone. I am 100 percent better. My appetite has dramatically increased and my cramps have almost totally gone away. I feel really good. I'm waiting for my doctor to call me back and let me know how I should decrease my dosage. Hopefully the increase in the 6-mp will keep the flare from coming back. In the meanwhile, bring on the steak!
4-30-98 Well, after weeks of cramping and no energy I finally broke down and called my doctor. I'm going into a flare. I am now on prednisone--again--and my dosage of 6-mp has been raised to 100 mgs a day. I pray that it will keep me healthy. Now I suppose my hair will start to get really thin again. Still, I would rather have thinning hair than these horrilbe stomach cramps. Perhaps I will just shave my head and grow a goatee out and bleach it blonde. It would be a whole new me!
4-26-98 The cramps are starting to bother me all day now. Last night at work was bad. I was starting to double over with the sharp pains in my gut. Woke up this morning with cramps, too. I pretty much have had cramps all day. My fiancee thinks it's time for me to call my doctor again and I'm thinking she might be right. I usually end up waiting until I'm in really bad shape before I call him or go in. Can you tell that maybe I'm going into a flare? Geez, and I just got off prednizone. Still, I have my appetite and that's one good sign.
4-24-98 Woke up with that tight feeling in my gut again this morning. Not too cool. I really hate it when I get that feeling. I practically have to stand still, then hunch over whenever there is movement near my illeium. And because the inflammation is near my bladder, my intestine presses up against it and I feel like I have to pee, when I really don't. The tightness has alleviated somewhat as I write this. I get to sleep in tomorrow so I'm hopin the extra rest will help. I think I'll go to bed early tonight and read my Dawn of the Dead novel I just got in the mail yesterday!
4-23-98 Good news. I've been feeling a lot better the past couple of days. My cramps have subsided quite a bit and I think it's the 6-mp working. A couple of nights ago my cramps were so bad that it was hard for me to get to sleep. Luckily, I had some Tylenol codine left over from my mouth surgery. Not only did that help me sleep, but it totally numbed my intestines. Last night and today I have felt really good. I even had a small salad and I wasn't bothered by it. I haven't had that tight feeling in my stomach, which is a really horrible feeling. It feels like a steady cramp.
4-20-98 I've been feeling pretty good most of the day, except when early even rolls around. The cramps have been coming out pretty hard then and it's starting to bother me. However, I think my 6-mp is starting to kick in once again. I get slight headaches when the medication is working, but the cramps have been going away night.
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