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If you don't know what that is, it's Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I can't really explain past that but you have the world at your fingertips if you want to look it up. So today we went to San Antonio to go to a specialist. A gastrologist. We were in and out in an hour and what I have to do is going to suck...very much.

(Might be a little TMI)
A little back story first, I've been having diarrhea since 2014 everyday everytime. I never thought anything of it because I thought of it as normal and healthy cause it was all I had, up until 2016 when I found out from my family that having diarrhea is not a good thing. So my moms been keeping an eye on me to see how I'm doing. Well then she thought it was just the fact that my dad was dying.

In 2014 my dad was diagnosed with stage B3 lung cancer and in a few months it got to stage A4. (The stages are A1:B1, A2:B2, A3:B3, and A4:B4. You get it.) Well it was April 27 at 4:50 that Thursday morning in 2017 he passed. Easy to say that was the worst day and year if my life. Not to mention the family drama that started up.

Anyways, my dad was in the hospital slowly dying basically. And there was very, very bad family drama going as well too. So she thought all of this was causing it you know? All the stress was just taking its toll kind of thing. Well we were able to get out of ALL that stupid mess in September. And since then life has been good compared to last year. So I'm not complaining. I actually feel relieved for once to know I have no problems on my shoulders, well I do, just, not one's that just feel like your being crushed like the world is against you kind of problems.

So that's 6 months to where this should have gone away, it hasn't. In fact, it's only gotten worse to where I actually get pains in my whole stomach area deep inside (he said it was my colon that was hurting when I described it all to him). And it sometimes gets so bad it immobilizes me to where I'm on my side in bed, hugging my stomach you could say, and I just lay there until the pain goes away which takes an hour or two depending on how bad. And it only happens when I get done eating, sometimes I can eat that food with no problem at all then the next time I do, it's horrible.

The same has been happening to my mom too so she's getting me treated first then she'll go in and get diagnosed and treated. But she understands what I'm going through, which is always nice when you have someone to go through things with. Especially if it's a parent.

Well yea, I got diagnosed with IBS and here's where the fun part comes in...it involves A LOT of Miralax. (A laxative) So I need to be flushed and well this certainly is going to do it.

So 16 capfulls for one day only thank goodness. So 4 capfulls in each bottle of water. That's 4 water bottles if you didn't figure it out already. I'm supposed to drink half a bottle every half hour. All this within 4 hours. Then it's 1 cap and 8 ounces of water every day after that for a month. It's actually not bad considering, but it's of course the fact that I'm going to be ummm...in the bathroom for a whole month basically. That's the only part that's going suck.

And if this doesn't work, next is a colonoscopy. If you don't know what that is, it's where you gotta drink a big jug of this nasty tasting liquid and get a umm..thing put up your bum. Yea, my mom told me it's unpleasant and something you don't want. So I'm hoping so badly that this works cause I don't want or need that. Hope that this works... cause I'm tired of getting pain from eating. I hope everything is going great for you guys though! Well I'm probably off to go to sleep as today was a long day....