Medications I'm taking to be normal

To have a slightly normal life with IBS so far, i've done many things. I take medication pretty much from the beginning of my day to the end of the day. I exercise every other day if I can or I feel up for it. Just for reference and for those who might be reading this going through the same thing, here's a list of what I'm taking so far:
WARNING: I am not a doctor. Please talk to your doctor to make sure that these are right for you.



1. Align: I'm sure you've heard of this, its a probiotic used to increase your digestive health overall and make things easier to digest as a whole causing less distress. I typically take this once a day. While it is expensive, you can either email the company about your need for it and they can send you either a 14-day sample or a coupon for their product. Here's their website: http://www.aligngi.com/probiotic

2. Ayur-Triphala: basically this is a herbal supplement that helps with bowel regulation and helps to reduce the occurrences of constipation and diarrhea that can commonly occur. It also has an added effect of slimming down your stomach and preventing most bloating. Here's the link to the drug info: http://www.douglaslabs.com/pdf/pds/7684.pdf

3. Benefiber. I like it because I can put it in everything. Except carbonated beverages. I don't taste a thing and it dissolves quickly. I don't think I need to explain what fiber does.

4. I also take Levasin or Bentyl for painful cramping. It does cause drowsiness, but it does the trick most of the time. That you will definitely have to speak with your doctor about. they need to make sure neither interact with other medications you might be taking.

East Side Rapist's wife wants husband released.

For months a man went around Lake Eola raping women all over the area, causing fear in the hearts of women throughout the area. We finally catch him and oh look it's your husband. You didn't know, I'm sure if you did from the beginning we would have found out sooner but... My question for you is: Why would you want him out right now? Why shouldn't he serve his time?
Has he gotten help? Does he seem guilty? Has he apologized? No. So we're to let the victims seem even more upset because you want him to be home? He may not of hurt you, but he hurt others, drastically changed their lives and violated their person and their safety. Until he apologizes and gets help, does therapy for his psychotic behavior, possibly become chemically castrated, and is forgiven by the victims, he really shouldn't be out. He should serve a life sentence or at least 10 years of prison. And if I were the judge the only thing that would let me release him would be, letters from the victims themselves.
I believe in forgiveness and I believe in people changing but I don't believe that has happened yet. And I haven't seen changes in behavior, he still acts like this is no big deal. Just saying.

This is my opinion. You don't like it. Don't read it. And Keep positive please.




Keep being beautiful.

Having a baby to try to keep/control a man

You've seen this if you've watched Madea's Big Happy Family. A guy has a baby with a girl, it doesn't work out between them, but she tries to control him through the child. I'm not talking about the girls who take the father of their child to child support court. I believe that even if he is helping to pay the expenses of the child to go to child support court so it's in writing and you two don't have to fight over how much he should pay.
The girl I'm talking about is the girl who withholds the father from seeing the child anytime he does something she doesn't like (i.e go out on a date with another girl). That is petty and low. You guys didn't work out for obvious reasons that you are choosing to ignore when you see him or hear about him with another girl. If he's taking care of the responsibilities towards you and towards the child and hasn't abused you/child physically or verbally, he has every right to see his kid and every right to date and move on if you aren't together.
You should do right by your child. Let them see their father. Let them see a healthy relationship between you and the child's father showing that even though you and the father couldn't stay together, you love your child enough to stay civil and not pit the child between you.
I've seen what happens when you do otherwise from watching my friends deal with their parents, from watching people I know in the dealings with their children's father/mother. All it does is create bitterness between you and the child's father, bitterness and hurt for the child involved once they are old enough to understand what is going on, and a block that if you don't work towards fixing it now, will get so big it might take forever to fix.

Love your kid enough to let the guy go. And don't let what happened between you and the guy impede on the relationship between your child and their father. There are plenty of children in this country who wish they had their father or with they had a good relationship with their father. Let it go. Do what's right.


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The Trigger

So far, I don't know exactly what my triggers are for IBS. I know the main one is definitely stress. Anything that stresses me out causes me to have severe stomach cramps and no appetite at all. Eating only because I know that I have to.
I think most likely its that lately I hold my tongue and don't let things out as much as I could. Maybe because I don't feel like dealing with the aftermath of it all. I'm the one who usually is cool with everything. Who is cool under pressure. The little trooper of the family. Even when things make me so mad I see red. So when the time comes for me to say what I need to about a situation, everyone is shocked, and maybe even appalled by what I have to say.
I'm also known as the 'yes girl' and when I finally say 'no' it shocks the daylights out of everyone.
I'm talking about this because it even happened today. Someone in my life wanted me to do something that could compromise who I am as a person. Well let me be literal. They asked me via text but I didn't have my phone on me at the time. When they didn't get a response they called me like 3 times. (Again, didn't have my phone on me) Then called my mother and told her that I needed to be ready and downstairs in 5 minutes. The next thing I remember is saying 'no' over and over again.
My mother asked me why I kept doing it. I told her that this person didn't know how to ask someone a simple question if it smacked them in the face. On top of that the person knew I wouldn't want to do it, so to ask my mother instead was underhanded and wrong. This person went on to say that I was such an unreliable person when in fact I'd been there for every issue she's ever had since we'd met.
By the time the whole thing calmed down. I had been sick to my stomach and nauseous for at least 3 hours. Then when I saw this person later they gave me the silent treatment or the milder form of a temper tantrum. By then I was too sick to care.

I'm hoping this will be one of the last rants I give about this person. This person is one of my main stressors. I just need to learn not to let them get to me, though this is hard since they are constantly in my life and practically unavoidable.



Anyway, have a blessed day and stay Beautifully You

The Beginning

I was in the Nursing Program at my local college for quite a few months before this happened. Studying and stressing over clinicals. Couldn't eat much of anything and was getting bad stomach aches. Being the student that I was, I was reading through the Gastrointestinal section reading to see which one I could possibly have. I even at one point thought it was a problem with my ovaries.
But because I didn't want to miss days for clinical, I ignored it, treking on. For some reason, I wasn't doing well in clinicals, feeling listless and not putting my best effort into anything. Finally, I get sharp pains, I didn't think I could make it. It felt like something exploded inside my stomach. My mother took me to the emergency room in April 2011. They thought it was a burst cyst. This began a series of back and forth visits between my Primary and the Gynecologist's office since I wasn't feeling any better and I still had severe pain. Finally I told my Primary about my stress level and not being able to eat and he decided to send me to a GI doctor.
From there I had an EGD which basically is where they use a scope and view my intestines....They couldn't get very far...it was a twisted rope. First time I saw the photos I had to do a double take. Basically this classified me as having Irritable Bowel Syndrome. This blog is basically for me to discuss my struggles and my triumphs with this as well as speak about other things that I am passionate about.

If you find this and love it great, if not, that's okay too. It's not for you, its for me.

Keep being beautiful.