Swearing off Food for good.

[Kittee]

That's it...

I'm done with food. Equip me with a tube and feed me liquid nutrients. I"m not eating anymore.:mad2:


It's just not fair at this point. I cannot seem to eat ANYTHING but liquid food without being in severe writing stomach pain or nausea at this point.
Is this God's punishment on me for being overweight, praying for a fix? If so I take it back, because this is ridiculous.


I apologize for the pity post, I know a lot of you folks have it way worse than I do, I'm just so frustrated at this point I feel like giving up. I know I cannot but still I'm sure you guys know what I mean.

Meanwhile I need to buy stock in Gatoraid, Campbell and Jello. :ybatty:

 

[Creepy Lurker]

That's it...

I'm done with food. Equip me with a tube and feed me liquid nutrients. I"m not eating anymore.:mad2:


It's just not fair at this point. I cannot seem to eat ANYTHING but liquid food without being in severe writing stomach pain or nausea at this point.
Is this God's punishment on me for being overweight, praying for a fix? If so I take it back, because this is ridiculous.


I apologize for the pity post, I know a lot of you folks have it way worse than I do, I'm just so frustrated at this point I feel like giving up. I know I cannot but still I'm sure you guys know what I mean.

Meanwhile I need to buy stock in Gatoraid, Campbell and Jello. :ybatty:

I know how you feel. I keep getting blockages despite being on a low-residue diet.

Starts getting to you after a while. I'm pretty much ready for surgery now.

 

[Jeff D.]

I wish you the best of luck. I will be praying for you to start feeling better.

 

[TheLazy1]

I know the feeling, infact it's pretty much the same thing for me right now

Here's a few things you can try:
- Sit down and rest your gut on your legs, this works on the can too.
- Get one of those water packs and fill it with the hottest water you can get from the tap, rest it on your gun. If it's too hot put it on the outside of your shirt or cover it in a towel.

I can't count how many times I've sworn off food, too bad it always tastes just too good.
If the pain gets that bad you could always see your doc and ask for painkillers.
I will take one if the pain gets to the point where it is completely interfering with anything I want to do.

 

[Kev]

Hey Kittee... No need to apologize. I don't think any of us here consider it a 'pity' post. I recall all too vividly being in your shoes... I let it go too long, ended up in the ER. Thing of it is, welll, speaking for just myself... I came up with all sorts of reasons/excuses for not going to the ER sooner. Like, if I give it one more day, it'll turn around (nope)... and then there was.. Well, its the disease, they can't really do anything for me (wrong).. Or simply I don't want to go to the ER.. they really don't know IBD, and the waiting time is sooo long.
(Guess what? Ended up there anyway.. in even worse shape.. and the waiting time was just as long as I feared, but by that time I was too sick to handle it - AND surprise, surprise.. they were able to help - gave me pain meds N IV fluids)

There was a lesson there for me...

 

[Keara07]

Hi Kittee - I hear you loud and clear and i hope you are feeling a bit better as I post this. Every mornign I swear off food too, but I eat as the day goes on - small bits here and there but I keep track. I have def sworn off certain foods which make things worse ( I have eliminated them, and reintroduced them 2 weks later 2-3 times to make sure 0- lactose is a biggie, red meats, bread). You might want to try that - And I suck back ensures for the vitamins too, and have a staple of soup in the evening pretty much daily for more liquids.

I am *on hold* for surgery but have been with nausea and pain for about 4 months now.

Wish you well!

 

[Methofelis]

Hey. I know what you're saying. It seems like nothing is safe anymore... especially all of my favorite foods. You'll get no pity... I don't much like pity... but you'll get understanding and support. I feel your pain, and I'm very sorry.

Sometimes I wish there was no one for me to sympathize with... nobody else should have to go though this.

 

[Kittee]

Thanks for that tips and support folks. I hope everyone is doing ok today.

I had to follow the "clear liquid" diet today because tomorrow I swallow the pill cam. Talk about hard, and I still have hours to go before bed.

 

[elp888]

mmmmm...

i can totally understand why you would be done with food when it's making you feel so bad.... but i haven't eaten anyhting for 4 weeks now (being fed parentarally through an IV every night) and am completely OBSESSED with food. spend all my time looking at recipes online, going to the supermarket and cooking my boyfriend fancy meals. Yes, it is a bit masochistic, but somehow feel i have to 'connect' with food.
the doctors are keeping me on the IV until my operation, probably seocnd half of may, which means that i won't have eaten anything for 10 - 12 weeks. just the idea of that is so abstract.

hope everyone is having a good day today!
e.

 

[Kev]

Hmmm, interesting... While my sons were living with me, sometimes cooking was a bit of a chore... 7 days a week, week in N week out. But mostly I loved to cook for folks... not so much for myself (dunno what that says about my psyche'). But since I got ill, and have to follow such a strict and bland diet, I lost all joy in the prep of food. I have only a couple of choices, cook what I can eat and subject others to it... OR cook two separate meals N watch them eat all the good stuff WHILE I eat the mush.. OR chance it, eat the good stuff too, then try to find the willpower to get back on the wagon. Sometimes life sucks!

 

[Sojourn]

That's it...

I'm done with food.

I don't know how many times I've said this, gone out and bought liquid drinks, crackers, etc., only to find myself caving a few days later and eating real food. Then I'm asking myself, why did I do that. I've thought of it as me punishing myself instead of God doing the punishing.

Though I've thought God might be punishing me for other reasons as well. But then why isn't He punishing others? Or why are some being punished for no reason at all? A whole other subject there.

 

[num1habsfan]

I know how you feel for sure. I've struggled for more than 2 years ago...I'm getting so desparate to NOT feel the severe burning pains that I've slowly been cutting out food, or once in awhile have something just so I dont go through withdrawal.

And it's frustrating even more when the doctors don't listen, because when you feel sick its hard to find help. I saw a specialist about my gallbladder on Tuesday (which, btw, i can't get in for an ultrasound until AUGUST), and he said "We did that colonoscopy 5 years ago, You definitely don't have Celiac or Crohn's, and it would have showed when you had the tests in 2006". I've had Celiac for 5 years though, been on the diet for that long, and he's sending me for more bloodwork--and added a Celiac test:ybatty: . I can't count HOW many times I've been poked for that. How dumb can they be -- obviously I will have NO traces of damage!!!

And for the last couple of weeks I eat basically only one meal a day. Because I'm either not hungry, too nauscious, or am already in too much pain.

And like most of you know, the only things that don't make me feel any worse is rice, cucumbers, and lettuce. If I stuck to only that 100% of the time, guess you can say I have cut out food.

~ Lisa ~

 

[Sojourn]

LETTUCE?

Wow. I guess I missed that. That is strange, I haven't tried it lately. But before it was a death wish.

 

[num1habsfan]

LETTUCE?

Wow. I guess I missed that. That is strange, I haven't tried it lately. But before it was a death wish.

Death wish, huh???

Well I can stomach it better than anything else. Those are the only 2 vegetables that don't want to make me puke.

~ Lisa ~

 

[Kev]

Hmmm, sounds like a case for the X-files... If I went anywhere near lettuce or cucumbers (both of which I love)... then it would be akin to gastric suicide for me.

This is totally off the top of my head (right below the sign that says empty space for rent) but maybe, just maybe.. you have something totally different that IBD or Celiac? I mean, the tests say it isn't them, and your diet seems to be 180 deg away from the typical IBD trigger foods. Maybe you need a new doctor, and a whole new approach? I mean, if your currents doctors diagnosis is wrong, then its also possible that yours is to. I hate to put those thoughts into words, but it sure won't help if neither you nor your doctors are 'treating' the right illnesses...

 

[num1habsfan]

Hmmm, sounds like a case for the X-files... If I went anywhere near lettuce or cucumbers (both of which I love)... then it would be akin to gastric suicide for me.

This is totally off the top of my head (right below the sign that says empty space for rent) but maybe, just maybe.. you have something totally different that IBD or Celiac? I mean, the tests say it isn't them, and your diet seems to be 180 deg away from the typical IBD trigger foods. Maybe you need a new doctor, and a whole new approach? I mean, if your currents doctors diagnosis is wrong, then its also possible that yours is to. I hate to put those thoughts into words, but it sure won't help if neither you nor your doctors are 'treating' the right illnesses...

Kev, I have seen now (if I include the specialists for Celiac), 6. It was my families doctors long ago who told me I have Celiac because I likely would have died if I didnt start the diet immediately--and then it wasn't until well after a year that I got tested. Why I dont have proof.
Like I've said before, too, the IBD diet is the only thing that's helping me extra right now and keeping me from going to the hospital once a month or more. All food groups are gone --grains, dairy, veggies, meat. Also eliminate for a few more for hiatus hernia and gallbladder problems. So yeah, I can't just not eat, so stick with what hurts the least :yfaint: .

~ Lisa ~

 

[soupdragon69]

Just pondering out loud here in that perhaps you just have massive food intolerance issues??

It is possible to be like that and not be coeliac or IBD just as much as its possible to have all three....

I posted a while back on the foods threads the current diet my gastro team have me on and it excludes everything except all NON processed meat and fish, 6 veg and 1 fruit. The funny thing is I have avoided cabbage because of my crohns and now they are telling me I CAN have it and it doesnt seem to cause me any problems as long as I take out all the thick stalks and chew it well or liquidise it in a soup with other veg.

I do have ongoing nausea to the extent I take anti sickness tablets three times a day as it either hits me fast within seconds or sits gnawing in the background all day and peaks and troughs.

Have felt better with the stricter diet but not enough to jump for joy yet! Will get there in the end - I usually take the scenic route..

;-)

 

[Kev]

Well, now that a wonky gall bladder is added to the mix, I'm wondering how well the pancreas is functioning. Most just connect it to diabetic issues, the production of insulin... Least, that's how I thought of it till mine went on the blink. But it does so much more than that.. the enzymes we need to process all the building blocks of food... they all stem from there. So, if your gall bladder is playing havoc with your pancreas, affecting the levels of enzymes, I can understand it taking most foods out of the picture... and possibly leading to Habba like syndrome on top of it due to bile amounts. Has anyone looked at that possibility? Habba syndrome can pose as IBD, which might explain many of your symptoms but no visible/discernable sign of scarring or inflammation. Add in Celiac, possibly enzyme deficiencies, and it would all add up. Course, that's a wild assed guess. One of the 'failings' of mankind is a desparate need to make sense of things; even tho a lot of things in life never make any real sense.