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I have had a lot of experience with GI problems caused from EDS. When I was a baby I had severe reflux I was unable to keep a bottle down and I would turn blue when I threw it up. As I got older I never had a huge appetite I was very skinny. I always felt nauseous and had abdominal pain. I never had regular bowel movements. As I got older things just got worse, It was not uncommon for me to go a month without using my bowel. The pain just got worse, I was lethargic all the time, barely left my bed was vomiting more than 5 times a day. I was put into hospital and put on laxatives through a NG tube. I was in the hospital for 6 weeks. My bowel was so close to rupturing when they started the surgery and they said if I had waited any longer I wouldn't be here. I was fitted with an ACE (I can explain that in another post if anyone wants that) which is where they use your appendix and makes a tube from your bowel to your abdomen and everyday you put a catheter in with medication that flushes your bowel so that you can go to the toilet regulary. I was the first person to be fitted with this with EDS. They also had to remove half of my bowel. Things have improved but I still get nauseous, I still have pain and my GI tract is not normal but its better than it was
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