How do you feel?

[jed]

how do you feel?

so, when you start pooping normally, no stomach pains, no bleeding, no vomiting, how do you feel?

i'm feeling the best i have in a long long time, maybe the methotrexate is actually working....

it feel weird, and i get kinda scared when i feel well. i like to be able to feel my disease, so i know whats wrong and where.

feeling normal is not my normal anymore, and it sometimes scares me.

anyone else get that?

 

[drew_wymore]

I get that too Jed. I'm so used to being sick that when I'm not feeling bad it gives me this weird feeling like maybe I wasn't really sick.

 

[Agent X20]

Pooping normally is good... and I don't think I've really done that for 30 years, until I started taking the latest load of pills.... so I make the most of it when it happens. Still have lots of strange things going on inside... and I often feel really tired... so feeling "normal" is rare, I settle for feeling OK.
I can see your point though... maybe you're waiting for something to go wrong

 

[AbstractDonut]

Yep, I recently got through surgery and even though now I'm eating anything I want (except pork) I sometimes feel like I need to look over my shoulder. Like something bad is going to happen.

 

[mommy1st]

The first time I started pooping normally it kind of scared me I went to the doctor and said I only go to the bathroom once a day or every other day and he said that's all your supposed to go. I was kind of shocked by the news.

 

[AbstractDonut]

Ha Ha, Doc I'm normal! Somethings wrong!

 

[Agent X20]

The first time I started pooping normally it kind of scared me I went to the doctor and said I only go to the bathroom once a day or every other day and he said that's all your supposed to go. I was kind of shocked by the news.

:lol: Now I think about it... once a day doesn't seem like very much at all. Sometimes I have to try again just before I go to bed... just to make sure... then I get worried about being constipated, as that has its own problems!

 

[CDStinks]

when i feel normal, which is now & it is fabulous, i go into a kind of denial
I start thinking maybe I dont really have this disease & i can stop taking all the drugs & I will be fine
Then i remember 3 weeks ago, what i felt like before i started the remicade & realize thats probably not the case!

 

[Babe123]

my normal now is feeling ill. jsut gotten used to feeling so ill for a while that its a norm now. on the days i do feel well.. its like what the hell is going on.. but its great! whenever i have days im feeling great i always end up pushing my self to far and then i am ill the next day
x

 

[teeny5]

I just started feeling the best in months and it weirds me out too. I keep waiting for my stomach to hurt.

Babe...I was the same way until I started different meds. I thought what I was going through was how life was going to be for me from now on. Hopefully you will find a treatment that makes you feel better soon.

 

[Colt]

I'm still amazed by my brown poop about a month into my prednisone maybe-remission. After having such wild colors for 5 or 6 years and never normal brown it's kind of worrisome. It just doesn't seem good for my poop to be the same color every time and especially the one color I never had for all those years. It freaks me out a little. It's like if a normal person all of a sudden started pooping bright blue every time for a month or more.

 

[jed]

Ha Ha, Doc I'm normal! Somethings wrong!

that sums it up perfectly for me!

 

[Babe123]

I just started feeling the best in months and it weirds me out too. I keep waiting for my stomach to hurt.

Babe...I was the same way until I started different meds. I thought what I was going through was how life was going to be for me from now on. Hopefully you will find a treatment that makes you feel better soon.

thank you.. i think the consultant thinks its all in my head.. i dont know how to get him to understand that my pain is real and jsut becasue my tests came back clear doesnt mean that im fine
xx

 

[AndyCrohnsPatient]

it is weird when you feel normal because of being so use to pain. I do sometimes like it but other times it does leave me going, im i alright or something? lol

 

[ladyB]

What is normal?

normal is relative

and

my relatives are not normal