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Just having a moan!

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Cat1964

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I'm going to have a moan, so I'll apologise now. I've not been feeling myself for a few weeks. When I went for my PIP assessment earlier in the year the woman suggested I see my GP as she felt I was suffering from anxiety. I did and my GP suggested CBT and I didn't go for that as I know what causes my anxiety so I know my coping strategy. Anyway, because of the Fibro I have IBS and the anxiety can cause a flare up of IBS. So lately the IBS has been really bad. Last week I went out with Sophie for the day and went into Glasgow Central Station to catch a train to Kilmarnock. All I could see were thousands of faces coming toward me and I was feeling so anxious. I ended up walking behind Sophie kind of using her as a shield! I've been having flare ups of pain which means some days I can hardly move. I have been in the loo more times every day than I care to remember. I am suspicious that my blood sugars may be high but I have run out of testing strips to check....I know I should have some always......bad girl! However I have recently bought myself one of these metal water bottles that people use when hiking or camping. It holds 500ml a time and it's not see through. So at work I'm drinking 3 or 4 of them a day. I was really bad at drinking water, so I bought it because it's not see through so I can't see the volume of water in the container so it no longer feels like a challenge anymore to drink water. So I've also been thinking that my running to the loo is just my body trying to get used to all this extra water I'm drinking. All of this and trying to cope with getting to and from work when I'm in pain are hard work. The housework is suffering terribly, I hate telling hubby and Sophie I'm not feeling myself as I don't want them to feel I am moaning all the time. So most of the time I keep quiet about how I'm feeling day to day. I'm going to make an appointment to see my GP as I'm just not feeling myself. And to cap it all off my washing machine decided to give up last week and flooded my kitchen so I had to buy a new one which got delivered yesterday. Ah well at least I can come here and get it all out of my system Thanks you lovely lot for 'listening'
 
I hope you feel better soon. It helps to come and have a good moan and everyone is very supportive here.
 
I always find a good rant makes me feel much better, so I hope you're feeling better soon. Do you take anything for the IBS? I found Spasmonal fantastically good a few years back, a bit of a life saver to be honest 😱
 
Hi Cat, glad you felt able to put it down on paper (as it were) because at times it can be therapeutic just to do a list of what's bothering us.

You seem to do a lot of concealing of what's bothering you for fear of upsetting others and unfortunately as a long term coping strategy that can chew us up inside. Maybe you could rethink some counselling because CBT is about reprogramming the way we think about things. And that may mean a change of strategy. I agree that you need to see how your diabetic levels are behaving too if you're having symptoms.

Please don't put so much energy into 'keeping quiet' Cat. Sometimes we store up problems for ourselves by trying to be ultra independent. IBS is a classic trigger. I've lived under enormous pressure at times and my stomach was like a pressure cooker on overload as a result!

Hope you can feel brighter and more in control soon. Best wishes 🙂
 
KookyCat said:
I always find a good rant makes me feel much better, so I hope you're feeling better soon. Do you take anything for the IBS? I found Spasmonal fantastically good a few years back, a bit of a life saver to be honest 😱
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No Kooky I don't take anything for IBS, that's one of the things to discuss with my GP.
 
Amigo said:
Hi Cat, glad you felt able to put it down on paper (as it were) because at times it can be therapeutic just to do a list of what's bothering us.

You seem to do a lot of concealing of what's bothering you for fear of upsetting others and unfortunately as a long term coping strategy that can chew us up inside. Maybe you could rethink some counselling because CBT is about reprogramming the way we think about things. And that may mean a change of strategy. I agree that you need to see how your diabetic levels are behaving too if you're having symptoms.

Please don't put so much energy into 'keeping quiet' Cat. Sometimes we store up problems for ourselves by trying to be ultra independent. IBS is a classic trigger. I've lived under enormous pressure at times and my stomach was like a pressure cooker on overload as a result!

Hope you can feel brighter and more in control soon. Best wishes 🙂
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Thanks Amigo, I'm going to discuss everything with my GP. I did mention to Sophie I was having a bad day today....so she made me dinner. But she also said I need to tell them when I'm having a bad day. I'm going to try telling them more when I'm not myself. I do try to do it all and most times try to do it all on my own without asking for help. Things need to change and it needs to be soon. I just need to learn to ask for help. I had a terrible sleep (as usual) last night but hopefully if I sleep a bit better tonight I might just feel more like me tomorrow. :D
 
Hope you have a much better night Cat. And hope the doctor can prescribe something for your IBS symptoms and anxiety. Best wishes.
 
Big hugs Cat. Please get the help you can from your GP. I hope that you start to being to get things under control soon xxx
 
Cat are you on metformin? When you see the doctor ask him about it as some of us don't tolerate metformin very well, me included
 
I phoned my GP today and asked for an appointment. The receptionist offered me an appointment for 10.30am. I couldn't go because at that point I was waiting for some people to arrive to cut my garden hedge. In the end the hedge people didn't turn up and when I phoned at 11am the company told me that they wouldn't be coming as one went on holiday and one phoned in sick. When I asked if they had any plans at any point today to phone me to let me know, the woman said she hadn't thought of doing that. So if I hadn't phoned they'd never have phoned me. I was so angry particularly since I had turned down my doctors appointment. So to cheer myself up I waited for Sophie to come home from school and I phoned my friend and we went for a coffee and shopping. All was well until we left the coffee shop. We were shopping in another shop and had only been in there 5 minutes when I came over all funny, broke out in a cold sweat, felt sick and had to quickly tell Sophie I wasn't feeling well and abandoned her and my friend in the shop to go and find a loo as the IBS also kicked in big time. To say the least I felt awful. When I returned to them I was shaking, feeling sick, still in a cold sweat and just wanted to go home. My friend needed to go to the supermarket so we waited for her. Hubby called me when we were in there and I ended up sitting in the supermarket in tears telling him how awful I was feeling. Sophie also said to me that I was the one who wanted to go out and I always ended up feeling ill when we go out. She's right I was the one who asked them to go out as it was such a beautiful day. And there were more tears when I got home too. Yet again another afternoon out spoiled because of me.
 
The afternoon wasn't spoiled by you Cat, it was spoiled by the anxiety disorder that you seem to be suffering.

Hope you can see your doctor soon and he can perhaps prescribe you something to help. Please reconsider the offer of counselling too.

Best Wishes
 
Don't feel bad for suggesting going out, Cat. That's just you trying to get on with your life and have some fun despite all your health problems. Good for you! A lot of people would just hide away at home. 😱🙂
I'm with Amigo - let your family know how you're feeling. They can help take the pressure off. Let us know how your GP appointment goes.😱🙂
 
Cat you definitely did the right the thing by going out. Each time you don't go out the more inclined you will be to stay inside all of the time. I hope that you get to see your GP very soon xx
 
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