So a brief overview of whats going on...
To make this as short as possible. We adopted a new dog - a lab mix. We took the paperwork to our apartments office to get approval and they took our paper work & $300 deposit and said enjoy your pet. So we went home happy with our new addition only to receive a call the next day saying the dog was TWO POUNDS over the weight limit and we either had to get rid of her or be evicted. Dogs are family to us so 'getting rid' of her is not an option. So we had to start apartment hunting. I'm was/am completely stressed to the max. That was a few days ago and as of yesterday we found a new apt to move to and we got approved to move in Sept 1st.
But as of yesterday morning I had complete watery D two times in an hour and then I took Pepto 4 times that day in addition to Immodium so I made it through the rest of the day without D but I was feeling sick to my stomach. A little extra information I have been on tapering Entocort dosage since March but as of 2 weeks ago I weaned my self off of it, before that I was taking it only once a week for some time until I was ready to get my self off of it. Up until yesterday I was having completely formed bowel movements with no upset stomach. I made my decision to get off of it due to having dizzy vertigo spells and thought that might be the cause. I do have an MRI Monday to made sure there are no neurological issues causing the dizziness. But I woke up today feeling 'decent' but as the day wore on I started feeling more and more nauseous. I ate a plain potato & small package of tuna with a glass of water (as these have always been my safe foods) for lunch hoping that would make me feel better but boy was I wrong. About an hour ago the nausea got so bad that I started dry heaving and it progressed to me throwing up about 8 times, although there isn't much to throw up anyways (sorry if tmi
) and now I've had watery D two more times. So ultimately my question is does this sound like a result of me going off the Entocort or a stomach bug? Throwing up was never one of my symptoms of MC before so that's why I wonder... I cant even keep water down.
I know that Entocort takes about 8 weeks to get out of your system all the way. But I thought if you were going to relapse that the symptoms would come on a little more slowly? Because like I said the bowel movements have been fully formed up until yesterday. I am still gluten free, haven't changed my diet since weaning off Entocort. I know other members have said that when they were weaning off it that they were aware of what their 'trigger foods' were as they would get sick after eating certain things because the Entocort dosage wasn't strong enough to mask the results of that food anymore. But I never had any of that. I've been eating all my normal foods excluding gluten with no problems.
So to make a long story short I'm freaking out. I feel so sick and I can't even drink water
I'm so tempted to run back to the Entocort to make this go away - not that I could keep it down at this point. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
As always this is the only place I can trust to come to when I have so many questions..
