Okay, I am having abdominal pain in a big old way. It started yesterday, along with...rapid gastrointestinal transit, and I'm pretty dang sure it's from stress about the election that just built up and had no way out other than by punching my colon.
But I totally forget what to do for abdominal pain like this! I've been eating toast and rice and bananas and string cheese and scrambled eggs (not all the same meal). Does a heating pad help? I can't believe I can't remember this.
Bland foods, lots of water, and coconut macaroons. Really.
What do coconut macaroons do? I'll try anything, especially if it's yummy.
Slow the rapid transit. My parents heard it on People's Pharmacy, and It seemed to help. Also, Pepto over Immodium, if you prefer a drug.
I no longer have rapid transit. I think the loss of water from the rapid transit has resulted in hard angry poops that aren't going ANYWHERE, so now everything hurts from somewhere below my stomach all the way to my bottom.
And I am *starving*, but don't want to eat anything that will screw up the already screwed-up balance. I guess gatorade and chicken broth are bland and will hopefully get water back where it needs to be.
I still want coconut macaroons, though.
Hmm, I'd go prunes then, I guess. Not as tasty, sorry!
We have no prunes. We do have raisins, though.
And, TBH, the one thing guaranteed to get things moving is if I eat something massively gluten-y. Hmm. My boss brought in bagels today, which I obviously skipped. Now I am regretting that. Maybe I can steal some of Tim's 10,000 cookies.
This has been tonight's episode of "I Wonder What's Going On In Steph's Colon?"
Teppy, eat the raisins, and lots of water, and I find tylenol often help me in that particular situation.