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It has been a while since I have posted....I visit often to see if there is anything I can contribute every so often but if there is one thing that I have learned over the last 6 years is STRESS and I mean any kind of stress be it on the body or mind has the potential to graduate into a flare whether a person has been gaining and feeling like they are doing ok.
WHAM....it just hits, out of no where! You have solid Normans and then the next moment it is water D...this MC is just an insanely emotional condition that I'm sure no one has 100% control of all the time.
To give a few examples:
I could be fine in the morning and then I drink WATER...sometimes it is instant WD.....that is ridiculous!
I could be fine and then I eat breakfast of safe foods I've eaten over an over.....I spend the next 2 hours running to the bathroom completely emptying myself....UGH!
I have felt great and full of energy....so I will partake and engage in a cleaning spree of the house and by the next morning I've STRESSED something out because the bathroom is calling again!
I can entertain my grandkids for a sleepover and be fine while they are here....but depending on how my body wants to react to their visit...within a day or two I'm releasing whatever my gut can't handle....such an INCONVENIENCE!
These scenarios don't happen every day.....but they are all instances of MC/LC/CC that I have learned to live with and work around the best I can. I know food can curse us, but the Mind/Body connection is just as wicked for us to maneuver as well.
This is just a random post, I hope it resounds with a few of us.....I by no means have been perfect but I have more patience these days and have healed well enough I don't worry much leaving my home to do things. I wish all of you continued healing
To Succeed you have to Believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a Reality - Anita Roddick
Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
I have to agree with you. I've felt for some time now that stress is quite underrated as a trigger for MC. And it probably affects some of us to a much greater extent than it affects others. While some of us are probably better at handling stress than others, the main problem is almost surely that some of us are just subjected to more stress than others, due to our work conditions or our environment in general.
The stress levels of the past year have been especially brutal for many of us. I hope that this year will prove to be much kinder and gentler.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
