Post by MaryPost by DianeI think I just need some support, hugs, encouragement, something because I
woke up once AGAIN with pain, exhaustion, depression, etc., and felt
suicidal for the third time in a few weeks. :-( I want you all to know
that I would NEVER commit suicide, but these thoughts popped into my head
three times already. :-( I will be seeing my GP tomorrow for a referral,
hopefully, for a second opinion from a GI specialist about my stomach. I
will also be seeing my pdoc on Feb. 4th and will tell him about my
thoughts, etc. I have a few other tests I have to get done for my health
and cannot wait for the results! I'm in a very bad place today because I
am sooooo exhausted from not sleeping well every single night since about
April 2012! Thank you for letting me vent here. I don't want any of you
to worry about me committing suicide, okay? Just give me some hope!
Please! Thank you so much.
Hi Diane,
Sorry you are feeling so discouraged. I can understand how you feel. I
have trouble with my stomach at times too . In fact the last few days I
have had intestinal infection which is slowly going awy. Its good you have
your doctor referrals setup especially the one for your stomach and your
Pdoc. I know what you mean about thinking about suicide, but would never
do anything about it. I think some people feel that way occasionally. Of
course mention it to your pdoc on Feb.4th which won't be long. Have you
mentioned to your regular doc and your pdoc about not being able to sleep
very well since Apr. 2012. Thats a very long time. Is it because of
anxiety? Have you tried anti depressants? There is always hope Diane. Try
not to worry. Can be very difficult I know,
but try. You are doing all you can to get past your present anxieties and
problems and eventually you will get through them.
There is always hope. You will be OK. Best wishes to you to get past this
bad time.
Mary
Mary, thank you so much for your support and advice. I appreciate it so
much! I am so sorry you are also going through a bad time with your
stomach. :-( I have been going through the *stomach* thing since April
2012, which my other GI guy looked into by giving me a few different tests.
The last test he did was the Scope and then told us in his office that there
was nothing wrong with me! Don and I both jumped up out of our seats and
said WHAT?! What about the pain, the agonizing BM's, etc., etc. He finally
told me that I had IBS with constipation and then he gave me a script for
Dicetel. He said there was nothing else he could do for me and that was it.
Don told me that when doctors can't find the real reason, they tell you it's
IBS. I believe that too, Mary. At first, the Dicetel worked fairly well,
then really well, and all of a sudden, the past few weeks or so, I have been
having a terrible time in the bathroom and I think it's BECAUSE of the
Dicetel. :-( Don and I haven't slept well in months and months because I
wake up during the night so many times to either pee (sorry), or my
arthritis is killing me, or I have contractions in my calves, feet and legs,
or I have a nightmare, etc. Don gets up himself during the night several
times to pee because of his age and his prostate problems. But because I
get up too, neither one of us can ever get a really good night's sleep. Our
pdoc knows about most of this stuff. Yes, I am on Imipramine, an old TCA,
10 mg. 4 times a day and when I see him on the 4th I'm going to ask him if I
can increase it to 60 mg. a day. I know he will say yes. He is great!
Anyway, the reason I haven't been able to sleep well since about April is
because I had insomnia when we were in Fla. in Jan., Feb. and Mar. 2012.
Don had to *remind* me that I had it in Mar. Then I started to remember
that I did have it then. I asked him if I also had it in Jan. and Feb., but
he said he didn't think so. He just remembers me having it pretty bad in
Mar. To make a very long story short, we think some or all of my illnesses,
insomnia, etc., are because of the many, many times we both went into the
hot tubs there in Fla. I think I told you that Don had multiple bleeding
ulcers last Oct. His GI doc said yes, that the bacteria from the hot tub
could have given him a bacterial infection that caused him to have H.
pylori! The whole story is so weird, eh? But...we have several neighbors
that told us they would NEVER go in the hot tubs there because of the
bacteria. We told them we had gone in them multiple times and they warned
us never to go in again. We told them not to worry about that. We had no
intention of ever going back into one of them. :-) Also, one woman
neighbor of ours told us that after she had gone into one, she came home
with a really bad bladder infection and wouldn't ever go back into one.
See? We think this is the reason we're having so many problems. :-( Sorry
to write a novel here, but I've been doing that lately without realizing it
at times. :-) I thank you again, Mary, for your well wishes and hope! I
also hope you can get passed this bad time yourself. {{{{{Mary}}}}} Take
care!
Diane
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