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Hey there, hi there, ho there!

I have fallen behind on my updates. But I vow to keep updating from here on out!

So...what's happened? A lot, actually. I went to see the hepatologist and it turns out that the pain and nausea is all coming from me being so constipated. Gross, right? Perhaps I shouldn't hold it while I'm in public anymore? But, I was instructed to go on a Miralax regimen in which I would take a cap full of it every night. I did that for a month straight in hopes to get some movement of the pooh.

Nothing happened.

I STILL had pain. I met with a GI dude last week who took another xray of my insides and I am still backed up. They decided to bring out the big guns...

medicine for cramps, Stool softener, laxative, COLON CLEANSE!

I prepped myself to do the MoviPrep cleanse this past Saturday night. I mixed the two packets together along with two cold bottles of water and down the hatch it went. It was disgusting. Its a salty-lemony thick liquid. And I must say, the first 2 ounces weren't so bad. About halfway through the bottle you start to ask yourself if maybe having the pooh in your system isn't sooooo bad.

Side note: It was about halfway through where I could feel the mass shift and my pain was MUCH lower. Weird, right?
I waited. I waited about 15 minutes before I had to explode use the bathroom. Nothing major came out. I maybe went 3-4 times total. But certainly nothing that anyone would look at and go, "There must have been SO MUCH POOP inside you!" I don't even think I would have gotten a medal in the Olympics if there was such a thing. But, I would guess my ranking would have been:

1st in urgency
2nd in grace getting up the stairs
3rd in my choice of underwear for the evening

See...I didn't even medal in volume.

I thought by the time I finished my second round of this crap in the morning I would for sure be cleaned out. I didn't evacuate much...which you would think to be a great thing, right? Then last night's cleanse must have worked! But I didn't feel relieved. By Monday morning the pain had returned to its original spot. So I sent over a little message to the doctor who set up another xray. I will go in this afternoon to get another xray done to do a comparison of before/after. I wish I could show the xrays somehow. They are pretty interesting to see!!

So while I still have liver disease, it is not that bad. Its probably something I have been living with for 10 years now but have only now looked into. Its something that I might have to live with for the rest of my life, but certainly nothing to be super scared about. I think the doctor said that its not now that we worry about, its 10 years from now. But I can certainly help with that by getting my weight down and moving more.

Side note: If ONE MORE DOCTOR says that I need to exercise more and eat better, I'm going to blow.


 So everything is really positive. I like that. Lots of great things to look forward to! I have an appointment with a metabolic specialist next week to help me with why I cannot lose weight and then a follow up appointment the week after that with Doctor P on how I have been doing with weightloss (!!!) and such. Once September rolls around, I should know a lot on where I stand physically and I cannot wait.

September is PCOS Awareness month! I made a little badge in celebration! Yay!

Pain: 3.5