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  1. Paddy Holmes

    'Running out of sympathy'

    I 'm married to a wonderful man who has helped me through a load of surgery ( some of it scary) but is in a job which is very mentally draining... teaching teenage adults at the local college. He sometimes is so tired that he has in the past admitted to having 'run out of sympathy and...
  2. Paddy Holmes

    Mental Health cut backs

    As I think I've mentioned, I had a brilliant therapist guy who I'd got to know well and who I saw every 6 weeks or so, unless I was in a bad way. He's now gone on to bigger and better things and I was invited for assessment by a new Psychiatrist. He was aperfectly nice bloke but I felt no...
  3. Paddy Holmes

    Colonic Olympics

    Everyone else has been wowed by the athletes' achievements, we have been forgotten. We don't come into the Paralympic group so I propose we have an ongoing record of achievements within our catagory! I earned myself a gold last night for the 10 metre dash...if enough of us get together we could...
  4. Paddy Holmes

    St Marks Solution

    Has anyone heard of this? My GI has recommended that I stop taking Asacol and use this instead. My understanding is that it's for rehydration. Tummy very sore over last 3 days and feeling weak, headaches and joints achey. Is this a bug I've picked up or another manifestation of Crohns? By the...
  5. Paddy Holmes

    Am I passing Skin from my bowel?

    I've had Crohns for many years and now have an Ileostomy. Because I face forwards to empty my bag I can see what seem to be very thin threads of skin floating. I very rarely have a thick 'passage'. I've had some blockages over the years due to overmedicating and wrong food so am very careful. I...
  6. Paddy Holmes

    I'm a newbie...

    New Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Bangor N. Ireland Posts: 2 Speedy passage after eating -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've had Crohns for 25+ years now and have had LOTS of my small intestine and large intestine removed. I now...
  7. Paddy Holmes

    Speedy passage after eating

    I've had Crohns for 25+ years now and have had LOTS of my small intestine and large intestine removed. I now have an Ileostomy which makes life a little easier but because of 'frequency', eating is now a problem. Within 20 minutes of eating, a sandwich for instance, my system empties itself...
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