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First of all Happy Cinco de Mayo! This past week has been hetic. I went to the ER last monday and didn't get out til 3am and had to report for 24hr duty 3 hrs later. Then i went on leave so we could move into our new house. We didnt have much help and we didn't finish til yesterday. my house is so cluttered everything is still in boxes! i can barely walk to my bathroom. lol i also started a weird shift this week from 10am to 9pm. I only get saturday off because sunday i start another weird shift of night crew 4pm til 4am. Then this saturday my friend Alisha had her baby girl named Riley. So i was up all night with her. I feel very sleep deprived. My guts have been hurting so bad. Not so much vomitting but the guts are really painful. ive noticed my pants around my waist get tired and then loose through out the day. Kind of feel like i'm swollen and it throbs. I called to make an apt with my GI doc because i STILL haven't heard from him since my CT scan but they can't get me in til the 28th!!!! I don't feel like Entocort has worked at all for me. I'm in more pain, more nausea, and more headaches since starting this meds. Plus i'm still going to the bathroom the same! grrr! Will i ever get some relief? I hope everyone else is doing good! i missed ya'll!
Olivia for how long are you on entecort now. Sometimes it can take a while before it starts to work, but after two - three week it should get much better. At least the D. The pain like cramps, nauseous and just an uncomfortable feeling in the gut can take a bit longer to disappear. In my case it took about 6 to 8 weeks. Also you are leading a very busy irregular life if I read your message. Moving to a new place, greasy job hours (how on earth with your health problems they let you work during night and irregular hours and shifts that long, that is greasy!!!). For sure that does the MC no good. Nauseous can also be a side effect of the entocort, I discovered. What helped in my case, take the pill just before a meal (somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes) not longer. What also can help to improve gut problems is extreme plain, simple easy to digest food. Only problem is than it takes a while to figure what that is.
Well I hope you will get settled in soon and you also feel better soon.
hopefully now, with the move over things might improve. (moving is up there as one of the top 5 major stresses in life)
Congratulations to your friend on the arrival of Riley. Have fun being aunty olivia.
i have the bloat issues, i bloat up about an hour or so before a BM. i also get cramping it normally lasts about 2 - 3 mins, sometimes it is so painful i can not move or stand up. I have had the cramping issue for most of my life.
recently the cramping and the bloat is the signal that i need to be near a toilet within an hour.
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First of all Happy Cinco de Mayo! This past week has been hetic. I went to the ER last monday and didn't get out til 3am and had to report for 24hr duty 3 hrs later. Then i went on leave so we could move into our new house. We didnt have much help and we didn't finish til yesterday. 
my house is so cluttered everything is still in boxes! i can barely walk to my bathroom. lol i also started a weird shift this week from 10am to 9pm. I only get saturday off because sunday i start another weird shift of night crew 4pm til 4am. Then this saturday my friend Alisha had her baby girl named Riley. 
So i was up all night with her. I feel very sleep deprived. My guts have been hurting so bad. Not so much vomitting but the guts are really painful. ive noticed my pants around my waist get tired and then loose through out the day. Kind of feel like i'm swollen and it throbs. I called to make an apt with my GI doc because i STILL haven't heard from him since my CT scan but they can't get me in til the 28th!!!! I don't feel like Entocort has worked at all for me. I'm in more pain, more nausea, and more headaches since starting this meds. Plus i'm still going to the bathroom the same! grrr! Will i ever get some relief? I hope everyone else is doing good! i missed ya'll! 
