Well, here I am again, up all night with severe anxiety and stomach cramps. It is getting pretty old, folks!! Just how long will my stomach continue to hurt? It is almost 8 weeks since my emergency surgery but still, I have these horrible cramps almost every night and the anxiety and restlessness is becoming very annoying. I talked with my psychiatrist at the VA clinic last week and she added a new med to help me get to sleep. Unfortunately, I broke out in an awful rash all over my body so I deep-sixed the med. My other doctor gave me some medication for the cramps but it doesn't work. So now I am back to square one. Gastrointestinal doc keeps telling me to give it time, it will work itself out sooner or later. I read through the surgery and pathology report again last night. I know now why I was so close to death. The lower intestine had become gangrene!!! No explanation why either. That is literally terrifying to me to be that close to death. I just wish I could get some decent rest!!!
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