I have no idea what's going on!

December 4, 2003

Hi y'all,

The last ten days or more have been great, as I reported a few days ago.

Few occasions of severe pain, and my duragesic patch and the BT Percocet

has handled whatever came up very well.

Last night, halfway through dinner, it felt like I got hit by a fast thrown

football

in the gut. The pain came suddenly out of nowhere and was fierce and

furious in its intensity. I couldn't finish my meal, in fact I couldn't even

sit back

upright and couldn't move for over an hour. Waves of nausea hit at the same

time, and I struggled with it for half an hour before I finally had to nearly

crawl

to the bathroom in haste with an all too familiar diarrhea attack. It was so

sudden and so sharp that I got worried about the pseudocysts rupturing and

immediately took my temp, but it was it's usual 97.2.....so no problem there.

My husband was at a meeting last night, and came home at 10:00 to find me

in bed with the heating pad on my belly and cat by my side. He took one look

at my face and said " oh no, not again " ... I had taken my meds as soon as it

hit and had to double them a few hours later before I could sleep. Woke up

at 2:00 am still in pain. Woke up at 8:00 am feeling absolutely terrific, like

nothing had ever happened!

I had a great, busy day, lunch was no problem and no meds all day, and then

tonight at dinner, halfway through, the same darn thing happened, but even

worse this time with the nausea and pain. What the dickens is going on?

The food's been the same old, same old, so I know it's not that. I've been

eating just fine with no problems for two weeks now. Then I read 's

post....aha.....maybe we've sharing sympathetic symptoms or something.

I know it's just this same old unpredictable disease playing it's tricks on me

again, but whatever it is, please tell it to go away!

Oh, well, tomorrow's another day. We'll see how it goes.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep.

PAI, Intl.

Note: All comments and advice are personal opinion only, and should

not be

should be substituted for a professional medical consultation.

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