I feel like moaning

[mali42]

Hi all
My IBS returned after 10 years and after cutting out this and that I found milk was the cause so now its been 2 weeks IBS free so fingers crossed it was the milk,

Last week I had 5 days of chronic fatigue and then it just went, Monday i was in London amongst all the crowds and now have a cold and we all know what follows on from that.

I had a hosp appointment today and they want to scan my heart, they will put radiation to highlight my heart and they will stimulate it and see if its working properly, oh joy

Well things can only get better.

Malcolm

[john]

well it seems to me the news is mainly good!!
the cough will follow the cold, so get the antibs ready!
the heart scan, you have my sympathy there, anything i haven't had myself i'm in awe of.
at least they'll find out what we already know here, YOU HAVE A GREAT HEART!!
take care malc, and hope all went well
john

[glowing]

Poor you. That IBS is awful so it will be great if you have found the cause. Good luck with the heart scan and hope your cold remains just that and doesn't get any worse. Fingers crossed things will get much better.
Glowing

[mali42]

Thanks John & Glowing
Things dont seem so bad today apart from the cough and tight chest which should feel much better in a few days of taking the antibiotics. it just seemed a constant battle at the moment with one health niggle after niggle.

I think my worst case scenario is mild angina, they started by saying they could do a Coronary angiography with which he said there is a risk of 1 in 1000 having a stroke so no thank you but after i pulled a face they settled on lighting up my heart and doing stress tests to see if its working ok.

Malcolm

[liz2mac]

Hi Mali,
its the grumbling infections that just sit there and don't get awful but don't go away that are a real bug bear. I know the acute ones are awful, but usually they get knocked on the head fairly successfully. I do hope your's is responding to the antibiotics. Interestingly, years and years ago I read something about cows milk being a problem for some of us, I can't remember the exact details, so don't quote me on it, but it was something about the molecules crossing into our blood and them not being dealt with by our non existent antibodies. Glad cutting out the milk has helped. Hope the issues with your heart are dealt with quickly so that you can stop wondering what may or may not be wrong!
Liz

[mali42]

Hi Liz
I agree i would rather have an infection come out rather than linger and we are left unsure what is wrong,
The antibiotics are working i am lucky they seem to work quickly on me.
I am just going to be lazy for a few days until my strenght returns.
Malcolm

[alittlebean]

Hi Malcolm sorry you're not feeling well. Glad the antibiotics are having an effect and hope you feel loads better very soon.
I'm going to join you on the moaning thread. Think I have an infection lurking, I have been feeling really under the weather the last few days. Before my IgG was up to speed I found I went down really quickly with infections and knew the culprit. This time, I'm feeling awful but can't quite pin down why and what the focus is. Did any of you find this after starting IgG?

I also have additions disease and find I get very nauseous and dizzy when my steroids are out of sink as a result of an infection: that's the situation now. I need to pin down the location of these bugs pretty quickly! Wondering whether a trip to the quack might be in order.
Hope everyone else is feeling well. xxx

[gilliem]

Hi Malcolm. I sympathise with the fatigue problem in particular. My tummy bug 3 weeks ago turned out to be norovirus. While I'm very proud of myself for managing not to pass it on to anybody else, it's taking FOREVER to recover. I get to a point in the afternoon where I cannot stay awake, which a completely new experience to me and I don't much like it!
I hope all goes well for you and that you're reassured by your test results when you get them.
Best wishes,
Gillie.

[john]

dear gillie,
hope you shake off the norovirus soon. i always thought its other name was WINTER vomiting virus, just goes to show what a cr*p summer we've had this year!!
on a cheerier note i have great news for you! remember the fuschia cutting you gave us?? well today at our annual allotment and gardening show it won third prize!! not bad for such a young plant, but then it IS a beauty, and you did an excellent job in propagating it!!
sue did brilliantly today, three silver cups, 12 firsts - the list goes on!!
i got two firsts for my photos, but they didn't like my jam!!!
get well soon you two, i hate to think of you being unwell.
take care - john

[gilliem]

That's cheered me up a lot. Thanks John, and congratulations to you both on your successes.
Malcolm, I apologise for the unintentional hijack of your thread. I really hope you're feeling better today. It's beautifully bright and sunny here. Tomorrow we're back to rain again!
Best wishes to you and Pat.
Gillie.

[mali42]

Hi Gillie
You can hijack my thread anytime :-) I am feeling a bit better everyday and infused earlier so just feeling washed out but thats it for another 3 weeks, I hope you start to recover soon and i go through stages of cant keep awake in the afternoons but thankfully it does not happen very often,

Congatulations John and Sue on winning all your awards,

Littlebean,
Yes things change once we are on ivig, where before we were just ill all the time and now we have protection and sometimes we don't know what is making us fatigued or feeling under par, sometimes i get what feels like tonsillitis and have learnt to hold off taking antibiotics because the next day it has gone. I hope you feel better soon.

Malcolm

[gilliem]

Malcolm, that's extraordinary! I get that with something that feels like tonsillitis, but isn't,
too! The same applies to my occasional bouts of earache. I hold off taking antibiotics and it passes. It's almost as if the antibodies we're given are slow to wake up and tackle an illness creeping in but when they do, it goes fast - except for those dratted break-throughs which lay us out flat!
Best wishes,
Gillie

[john]

me too!
always the dilemma is "when to start the antibiotics", 'cos so often the sore throat, runny nose etc clear up spontaneously!
i should probably not say this, but i AM touching wood as i do, but i haven't had to resort to antis for so long now i forget which ones used to hit the spot!
malcolm, i'm with you on the tiredness issue though. no matter how much or little night time sleep i get, i can always do with more, and if i sit down in the afternoon i so often just doze off! good job the boss is on hand to put a stop to that!!
miserable day here today!
take care - john

[mali42]

My infection took a backward step so I have been given some different antibiotics if things don't improve soon,
I think we all get to know how are bodies react and what is frustrating is when things out of the ordinary happen and we are left baffled as to wha tto do and usually have to see a doctor who doesn't fully understand our condition. but i must say the new one i saw today was excellent and not a locum.

John, these bosses come in handy to keep us on our toes.

My mum was rushed into hospital and needed and emergency op on monday for a perforated bowel but she seems to be picking up now but she was very lucky because of the seriousness of infection from the leakage, so she had us all worried for a while.

Malcolm

[glowing]

Poor you Malcolm with your infection and so sorry for your poor mum. We had a similar worry with mum in law recently but she was 'sorted out' without the need for surgery, thank goodness. I hope your mum and you feel better very soon.

Glowing

[gilliem]

What a time we're having! I'm never going to post about fending off infection ever again. Somebody remind me if I do!
Malcolm, I hope your mother makes a full recovery soon. You and Pat have had a bad time of it in 2012, haven't you? Sympathy coming your way now, and a hope that things improve.
Best wishes,
Gillie.

[mali42]

Thanks for the good Glowing and Gillie
she is still in a lot of pain and she sounded a lot better today but it was a major op and she will take a long time to fully recover, my daughter is going up there tomorrow and my sister monday and tuesday and I will go thursday which works out ok and hopefully I will be a lot better by then, its never a good idea to move 200 miles away from your family especially as you get older.

Gillie 2012 has been a bad year for both of us with family upsets and what seems like constant gloomy weather and I am trying to stay positive but sometimes its just hard. we have 4 months left so lets hope things improve for all of us.

Malcolm

[john]

amen to that malcolm!
2012 has been pretty awful, the jubilee and the games helped a bit, but hospitals, dire weather and that feeling of things getting worse.... not so good.
hope your mum is on the road to recovery now. mine lives 200 miles away from us too, and although she is well now (touch wood), you kind of know that at her age it can't go on forever.with my only sibling living in new zealand, i guess it'll be you know who picking up the pieces.
4 months to go to a new year that hopefully will be better for us all.
take care and chin up - john

[bamber]

Oh dear John hope you don't have to wait four months for something good to happen!

Take care.

[john]

hi bamber,
don't get me wrong - generally things are not too bad, in fact sometimes very good.
it's just that after years of comparative health stability it seems to have been a hard year in parts!
guess we naturally remember the bad things???
take care - john