coaliac disease testing continued - week 4

So this week was the beginning of rapid deterioration. It was the beginning of constantly being tired. It was the beginning of constantly being bloated, constantly having issues with my bowels, and constantly having headaches.

All the sleep in the world couldn’t make me feel better. I would go to sleep almost before my head hit the pillow, and I would wake up feeling like a zombie. And its not like this was a particularly stressful period at work because we we’re at work.

This was also another jammed packed week of seeing and entertaining people. So no time to get pissy about anything with anyone here! We went out and had some pizza at a place called Pizza Mario in Surry Hills with some friends for dinner. And while I knew it was going to be a bad idea weight-wise, I figured hey if I’m doing this stupid test I may as well enjoy it, right? Anyway the pizza was nice, but I paid for it the next day. We had people over for new years, and we had people over for a bbq a few days later. So it was pretty full on.

I have to admit, I probably subconsciously did that on purpose, because I thought if I have to be around people then I’ll be forced to be nice and I won’t get the chance to be angry right? Well it sort of worked. Having 15 or so people at your house can be stressful at the best of times. So by the end of the night I was kind of hoping that everyone would go away and I could just crawl into a hole.

The next morning was quite disastrous. It turns out that I had accidently eating something with rice flour in it. Along with everything else, I really don’t agree with rice. My weight sky-rocketed and my clothes stopped fitting. It was almost instantaneous and the damage was high. 90% of my wardrobe no longer fit. Not only that, I had to go spend the whole day surrounded by 85 000 other people (or so) watching Australia lose the cricket!

I was losing dexterity in my fingers. My balance was beginning to suffer (more than usual). And I dreaded the thought of going back to work in this state. And I was irritable. Really, really irritable.

I was thinking of ways to mitigate the symptoms’ of the testing while not affecting the results. A good friend of mine consulted with me on some good strategies before I started. We bought laxatives, Imodium, de gas, and lots of peppermint tea. We thought that my clearing out the stomach the symptoms’ wouldn’t last as long.

Unfortunately for me, and everyone around me, it didn’t work.