Madi's Blog

was recently put on elavil(amitriptalyne) for my ibs. Problem is that as i get closer to my maximum dose of 50 mg i am experienceing major sugar and simple carb cravings and weight gain. ive gained 10 pounds(pounds i worked really hard to loose) in 2 weeks even though im still excersising and eating around 1800 calories a day(which is what my doc said i...

This has been my first post in a few months. After the colonoscopy I got in January I started to feel better little by little. Never quite understood why it was, but i was just happy it was finally getting better. At one point I hit the point were i didnt have an ibs attack in over 3 weeks(normally i have one ever 3 or 4 days, at my worst i have two a day)...

last night i stated to feel this pain in the middle of my stomach and only a half hour later my lower stomach was killing me. i felt like i was being stabbed by a knife and i felt like i was going to die. Not to mention i began to start erratically shaking directly after my stomach would gurgle or shoot up with pain. This persisted for an hour until i...

I havent been able to leave the house in a week. at first this snow storm was a blessing now it just a menace. My parents were at the grocery store on tuesday and now were starting to lack food due to the difficulty of getting to the grocery store(20 minutes away) in the snow without snow plows(LA times can call us snow whimps as much as they want but have...

luckily for me today is a snow day so no stress and no school. but sadly my stomach has other ideas. IM not sure if its something i ate but, yesterday i had pasta with sushi for lunch, and pork with corn and a bit more pasta for dinner. generally these are safe foods for me(most of my safe foods are safe on somedays but not others..its weird) but this...

My stomach just switched on me and i am having major cramping pain and major bm's. guess thats what comes with being constipated for a week though. Could it haveswitched due to stress? Probably considering i have midterms all week and i have drivers ed this afternoon. 2 hrs, one 5 minute potty break in which you cant go any other tiime but then. i swear...

So hi. Im Madi and am 15 years old and the last 4 months has been like living in purgatory. In August of 2011, i was diagnosed with Hyperthyriodism/Graves Disease. Only a month later,i began to develop very painful stomach pain making me feel very sick. i missed countless numbers of school days and only after a trip to the hospital(in which i had a CT scan,...