Hey all, you probably remembered I posted the thread about an upset tummy and IBS. Well it was a little bit more than that!
It turns out that I was allergic to something in the shakes, not sure what exactly. I started to feel a bit unwell on Wednesday night (upset tummy, cramps) - I didn't sleep a whole lot on Wednesday night and woke up with it on Thursday.
It got progressively worse during the day and although I have a high pain threshold (I had 3 bouts of really bad gallbladder attacks 3 years ago and Pancreatitis with it, but didn't go to hospital until 3 days in!!) there was no let up in this. The pain was unbelieveable so I knew something was wrong.
I called my doctor and he came up to the house. He injected me with an antisposmodic (I had already taken a tablet form that I have for IBS but it was like a smartie!) and said that if it didn't work within the hour, he wanted me to go straight to A&E as I could either have a twisted bowel, appendicitis or a cyst on my ovary) - Lovely!
Luckily it started to ease within the hour and we knew it was just a severe case of IBS (the worst I have every experienced).
I had ignored red blotches on my skin all week as I thought this was a heat rash (due to the hot weather we got) but the rash was now all over my torso, arms and hands.
The Dr believes I had an allergic reaction to something in Lipotrim and said I am to come off of it immediately. This then set off the worst IBS attack I'd ever had. I am really raging I have to considering (I did my normal weigh in myself this morning!) and I'd lost 11 lbs. I had stuck to this 100% ! But the pain of what I had yesterday I just couldn't risk that happening again. My stomach/side are still very sore, but I don't feel anyway as bad as I did yesterday. I'm still quite week but starting to feel better.
So I'm afraid I need to find another way to keep on losing. I'll be around the boards here as I find them great! I don't want to frighten anyone, because as you can see this appears to be the exception, not the rule!! But I would say that if you do notice a rash, please don't ignore it like I stupidly did!
Minnie x
It turns out that I was allergic to something in the shakes, not sure what exactly. I started to feel a bit unwell on Wednesday night (upset tummy, cramps) - I didn't sleep a whole lot on Wednesday night and woke up with it on Thursday.
It got progressively worse during the day and although I have a high pain threshold (I had 3 bouts of really bad gallbladder attacks 3 years ago and Pancreatitis with it, but didn't go to hospital until 3 days in!!) there was no let up in this. The pain was unbelieveable so I knew something was wrong.
I called my doctor and he came up to the house. He injected me with an antisposmodic (I had already taken a tablet form that I have for IBS but it was like a smartie!) and said that if it didn't work within the hour, he wanted me to go straight to A&E as I could either have a twisted bowel, appendicitis or a cyst on my ovary) - Lovely!
Luckily it started to ease within the hour and we knew it was just a severe case of IBS (the worst I have every experienced).
I had ignored red blotches on my skin all week as I thought this was a heat rash (due to the hot weather we got) but the rash was now all over my torso, arms and hands.
The Dr believes I had an allergic reaction to something in Lipotrim and said I am to come off of it immediately. This then set off the worst IBS attack I'd ever had. I am really raging I have to considering (I did my normal weigh in myself this morning!) and I'd lost 11 lbs. I had stuck to this 100% ! But the pain of what I had yesterday I just couldn't risk that happening again. My stomach/side are still very sore, but I don't feel anyway as bad as I did yesterday. I'm still quite week but starting to feel better.
So I'm afraid I need to find another way to keep on losing. I'll be around the boards here as I find them great! I don't want to frighten anyone, because as you can see this appears to be the exception, not the rule!! But I would say that if you do notice a rash, please don't ignore it like I stupidly did!
Minnie x