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    Looooooosing it

    I haven't been here in a while and I'm sorry for that. My in laws have moved in and I'm going nutso! My MIL is a quad so, bless her heart, can do nothing for herself. My FIL is VERY hard of hearing and suffers very slight dementia. My MIL is also forgetting things lately. I appear to be the...
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    In law stuff

    I am posting this here because here I don't have to be the fixer or the strong one or even fair and understanding. Here I can be a witch on wheels! My in laws are wonderful people. I love them both dearly. My husband and I have been trying to get them to move from NJ to Texas for years...
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    I want an oscar!

    If you gross out easily...stop reading please. Alrighty then; I crapped myself FOUR TIMES today. This is rather ridiculous, don't you agree? Now I will say the pain level was only about a 6, so I lucked out there. What do I have to do to talk the docs into giving me a bag??? I so badly...
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    Anxiety vs. Depression

    I have spoken to my doc regarding my anxiety several times. The answer is always the same: "All anxiety is routed in depression. Take this antidepressant". Well, I have been on no less the 6 different antidepressants over the years. They all make me depressed! One actually made me angry...
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    Question for Houstonians

    Hi all. I am having to find a new GI. I have been through 4 in the last year because they didn't take me seriously. So, any recommendations?
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    You want me to do what???

    Okay, here it goes: I live 2000 miles away from my family. I love my family but sometimes I just think they all need frontal lobotomies! I get a call at 5 am this very morning. Yes, 5 A fricking M! I am told I need to drop what I am doing (like making a living) and fly up to NJ to...
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    Sticky You Are Not A Burden!!!

    Dusty, I did not see this the first time, thank you so much for refreshing the post! I did say something not long ago to my wonderful husband about being a burden. He looked at me and said that I never complained about cooking him a special meal when he was on his "i have got to loose weight"...
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    Imuran, no way!

    I know I am most likely being a brat but I refuse to do this Imuran crap. Everything I read says it makes you feel like you have the flu all the time and all you want to do is sleep. Well, that would REALLY improve my quality of life...NOT! I drive all day as I am a speech pathologist that...
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    Depressed and done and really pissed

    depressed and done and really pissed I normally take this Crohn's crap in stride. I deal because hey, what else can you do? Today all I have done is cry. I really am so fed up. The pain is not any worse then normal, the runs to the pot are not any different, everything is the same. I am...
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    You are joking, what's wrong with me???

    Okay, now I do not use it all the time because I don't have to but I have a handicapped hang tag for my car. I only use it when things are kicking. Well today I can barely walk due to back/hip pain and my ankles are swollen to where I am wearing my husbands bedroom slippers...are you following...
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    Holiday Togetherness

    My in-laws are visiting. They have been here 2 1/2 weeks and still have another week to go. They are not bad people really. Just so LOUD and NEEDY! I have not sat down for more than 5 minutes since they have gotten here. Yesterday my husband and I started decorating the house for Christmas...
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    Panic Attack

    Well today I pulled a real doozy. I had a full blown panic attack in a client's home...a NEW client's home. I normally have a wee bit of anxiety before going into a new home, afraid I am going to have to stink up the bathroom in a person's home I do not know, but today was WAY over the top. I...
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    Bad day

    Just a bad day. The big D is running my life today and I am at the end of my rope. I had to cx 4 patients today. I hate doing that to my little guys. So much pain today not from the Crohn's directly but my joints! OY! I remember my grandmother telling me "I feel like a used dishrag."...
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    Just angry

    Okay, this really has nothing to do with Crohn's so if you don't want to read it, just hit your back button. For the first time in, oh I don't know, two or three years, I am hungry. And my husband calls and says, "Hey, I am running late. I will be home as soon as I can." Now this really is a...
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    Just my story.

    Hello all. I am new to the forum stuff but old to the Crohn's stuff. I was diagnosed 26 years ago after being married for just 6 months. I went from 130 pounds of energetic young woman to an 88 pound sack of bones in a little over 6 weeks. My husband (who stuck it out by the way and is still...
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