I have been off on medical leave for 2 weeks - I was in a lot of pain tummy and all over body pain, not sleeping, run down etc. I had to beg for the time off and could only get two weeks. I have to go back tomorrow, and I still haven't had much improvement in my symptoms. I am waiting to see my GI on Fri.
I have had problems at work due to my pain levels making me irritable and have been told by management that I am a huge disruption in the work place. Co-workers told management all kinds of things about me - I don't say hello, I think I'm better than everyone else, they won't work with me etc. I have a 4 page spreadsheet with complaints from people- anonymously of course. I really do not want to go back. I also work shift - early mornings- and have not handled the shift work well since my diagnosis. I am not sleeping due to the pain and discomfort and if I take pain meds and sleeping pills- I can't go to work as they take so long to leave my system, that I am still impaired at 4am.
I am currently dealing with parental alienation as well. My kids won't see me or talk to me. They are with my ex. I had primary custody for 7 years. finally found love again 5 years after the divorce. The kids and my ex say I choose my new boyfriend over them. I didn't, but they have their dad(who by the way met his gf of 7 years at the psychiatric outpatient clinic he was attending), feeding them all kinds of nonsense about me. My son, 13, has had anger, ADHD and ODD, and impulse control issues for years(he pulled a knife on me last year). I finally broke and sent him to his dad's when he told me the only reason he stayed was because of the school friends he had and that anyone who could get away from me would. Both kids have been verbally and physically abusive to me since the divorce, but I didn't want to give up on them as what kind of mother walks away from her kids. This is of course the highlights of the issue - I could talk for hours about the crap ex put me through with police, social services etc.
I really am at the end of my tolerance emotionally, mentally and physically - yet how do I convince the doctors how bad off I am? I suffer more with strictures and constipation, and only have the runs when I use meds to get the constipation dealt with. Some days I am in so much pain it hurts to walk. I have developed way more body aches and pains, and now my vision seems to be getting really blurry in the am.
I just want to stay home and deal with the exhaustion and pain.
I have had problems at work due to my pain levels making me irritable and have been told by management that I am a huge disruption in the work place. Co-workers told management all kinds of things about me - I don't say hello, I think I'm better than everyone else, they won't work with me etc. I have a 4 page spreadsheet with complaints from people- anonymously of course. I really do not want to go back. I also work shift - early mornings- and have not handled the shift work well since my diagnosis. I am not sleeping due to the pain and discomfort and if I take pain meds and sleeping pills- I can't go to work as they take so long to leave my system, that I am still impaired at 4am.
I am currently dealing with parental alienation as well. My kids won't see me or talk to me. They are with my ex. I had primary custody for 7 years. finally found love again 5 years after the divorce. The kids and my ex say I choose my new boyfriend over them. I didn't, but they have their dad(who by the way met his gf of 7 years at the psychiatric outpatient clinic he was attending), feeding them all kinds of nonsense about me. My son, 13, has had anger, ADHD and ODD, and impulse control issues for years(he pulled a knife on me last year). I finally broke and sent him to his dad's when he told me the only reason he stayed was because of the school friends he had and that anyone who could get away from me would. Both kids have been verbally and physically abusive to me since the divorce, but I didn't want to give up on them as what kind of mother walks away from her kids. This is of course the highlights of the issue - I could talk for hours about the crap ex put me through with police, social services etc.
I really am at the end of my tolerance emotionally, mentally and physically - yet how do I convince the doctors how bad off I am? I suffer more with strictures and constipation, and only have the runs when I use meds to get the constipation dealt with. Some days I am in so much pain it hurts to walk. I have developed way more body aches and pains, and now my vision seems to be getting really blurry in the am.
I just want to stay home and deal with the exhaustion and pain.
