Patrick wrote:
Wayne,
As a fellow GPer, you have my empathy and respect. Holiday food is always a challenge for me. I need to eat enough to satisfy my hosts and my family physician, but not so much as to cause gastric upset. I've been dealing with a blockage and diarrhea for the past two days, which is frustrating. Thank heaven for diapers.
I've not had a formal diagnosis re GP, but with the discussions with others and the symptoms I am confident that this is the case (I will be discussing this and the IBS-d with the doc later). I have fortunately only experienced this about four times, so far over the last two years. But that last time was horrible because of the pain involved.
Holiday food is always a problem for me as a diabetic. My glucose readings have been higher than I like lately. I have to keep them down or it causes swelling of the retinas, resulting in poorer vision (and subsequent needles in the eye to medicate). But that last GP event put the fear into me. That 1 tall beer with a largish meal resulted in hours of suffering.
I do hope Patrick that your GP suffering is minimal this year!
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