Weirdest thing happened....
Its been a terrible, grueling past few months. My mom had a stroke and called me from the hospital when I was really sick. I dropped everything and drove over there and she was doing fine. She suffered the worst attack while I was sitting there talking to her and it was difficult to call my father, who had just left for a break, to give him the bad news.
I decided to get back on the Prednisone, and worked through it. I was there every night for my shift to take care of her. I also had my disability hearing and discussed my condition with the judge.
Well, the corticosteroid works ok during the time I am on it. As soon as I get off it, I get bad withdrawal and my symptoms come back with a vengence. At the end of the second month of my taper, I ate something that poisoned me. I am pretty sure it was salmonella because of the onset of the disease and how devastating it was. I am not one to vomit, but I vomited so bad that I needed Phenergan to stop it. All I remember about the first few days was sleeping and waking up to run to the bathroom, oh, and being really really sore.
Now, what puzzles me, is not the fact that I had bad diarrhea and vomiting because of the poisoning itself, but the effect it had on my system after I came to several days later. I have always doubted that this is an autoimmune response of some sort, but it seems that my symptoms abated for a few days after recovering. It was almost as if my immune system ramped down its response after the food poisoning because there was actually something for it to attack and calm down. (I also was eating Activia yogurt, which I thought may have really kept my U.C. in check, but it doesnt seem to be as potent now).
Eventually, the U.C. came back and I am back to being sick again, but this brings some questions into my mind about just what is going on in my colon.
For one thing, the U.C. I have right now is very different from when I had it in the beginning. Fluids seem to go straight through me, as if there is an invisible valve that is stuck open in the wrong position and routes the water into my colon instead of my kidneys.
Another thing is the diarrhea. Its not diarrhea, its water with sediment in it, often with blood but rarely is it now mixed together like in a solution. Its quite separate, almost as if my body is deliberately flushing itself out continuously.
I have read so many interesting things recently. Scientists have found genes that are very different in U.C. patients than from healthy people. The makeup of bacteria in healthy and unhealthy people is vastly different. Doctors are finally waking up to the idea that using antibiotics may possibly be resulting in gastrointestinal problems.
I decided to get back on the Prednisone, and worked through it. I was there every night for my shift to take care of her. I also had my disability hearing and discussed my condition with the judge.
Well, the corticosteroid works ok during the time I am on it. As soon as I get off it, I get bad withdrawal and my symptoms come back with a vengence. At the end of the second month of my taper, I ate something that poisoned me. I am pretty sure it was salmonella because of the onset of the disease and how devastating it was. I am not one to vomit, but I vomited so bad that I needed Phenergan to stop it. All I remember about the first few days was sleeping and waking up to run to the bathroom, oh, and being really really sore.
Now, what puzzles me, is not the fact that I had bad diarrhea and vomiting because of the poisoning itself, but the effect it had on my system after I came to several days later. I have always doubted that this is an autoimmune response of some sort, but it seems that my symptoms abated for a few days after recovering. It was almost as if my immune system ramped down its response after the food poisoning because there was actually something for it to attack and calm down. (I also was eating Activia yogurt, which I thought may have really kept my U.C. in check, but it doesnt seem to be as potent now).
Eventually, the U.C. came back and I am back to being sick again, but this brings some questions into my mind about just what is going on in my colon.
For one thing, the U.C. I have right now is very different from when I had it in the beginning. Fluids seem to go straight through me, as if there is an invisible valve that is stuck open in the wrong position and routes the water into my colon instead of my kidneys.
Another thing is the diarrhea. Its not diarrhea, its water with sediment in it, often with blood but rarely is it now mixed together like in a solution. Its quite separate, almost as if my body is deliberately flushing itself out continuously.
I have read so many interesting things recently. Scientists have found genes that are very different in U.C. patients than from healthy people. The makeup of bacteria in healthy and unhealthy people is vastly different. Doctors are finally waking up to the idea that using antibiotics may possibly be resulting in gastrointestinal problems.
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