by NeuropathicGuy » 19 Aug 2009, 17:49
Yeah the babies are going to be awesome! We just set up both cribs yesterday along with the mattresses, bedding, etc. We're beginning to decorate the nursery. I'm a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan, so I'm lobbying to get a few bits of Lakers memorabilia up on the wall (especially since they just won the NBA championship this year), but my wife likes a nature theme, so maybe we'll have to compromise and have some basketball players in a forest or something :) But yeah it's just about a month (or even less) away now so I'm getting HYPED!!!
The Miralax is still a work in progress, some days are better than others. I usually just take a full dose no matter what (once after lunch and once after dinner), rather than try to guess at the amount.
Lately I've been eating maybe a 1/2 cup of Fiber One cereal for breakfast, brown rice sushi for lunch, and for dinner I have chicken and veggie (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, carrots) soup with crab legs or boiled fish on the side. If I'm still hungry then I snack on more cereal or soy beans (edamame). This regimen seems to do a little better with the Miralax. I still get hard stools, or more commonly hard lumps in my soft stool sometimes, and those still hurt pretty bad when they come out, but I think that's probably the chicken. Those hard lumps make me cringe, but I need the protein and energy so I force myself to eat at least a little meat everyday.
I'm indeed in slightly better spirits today, but that's mostly because I haven't had a terrifying BM today yet. Once I do (I often have a bad one in the evenings), then my mood changes entirely. Also, the Valium definitely helps the mood (artificially but I'll take it after my depression the last few months), and seems to reduce the spasms noticeably too. It doesn't seem to constipate me that I can tell.
Finally, I think the reason my mood hasn't been as bad since yesterday is that I've now got both the botox and LIS options on the table, and I can pull the trigger on either when I want to. So psychologically, I kind of feel like I have an out, and it's more under my control than it was before.
Thanks for asking, you guys have been a lot more helpful than my physicians. Between advice on what to eat, how to apply ointment, the real world success rates of the various treatments, etc., I don't know what I would've done without you guys. If I ever beat this malady and get back on my feet, I don't have any idea how, but I'd love nothing more than to make it up to you guys somehow!