I know it's taboo to talk about stomach issues, but we all get them and I want to propose something.
You know how there are PSAs to just take the pain med.
If you are having stomach/bathroom issues TAKE THE LOPERIMIDE FOR IT. (Imodium)
This isn't a suffering thing, if you're not careful and don't do something about it, it can lead to dehydration. Also it let me get back to sleep at 4am pretty quickly without issues.
Take the fucking med.
I love my mom to the ends of the earth, but the most frustrating thing in the year after her large colon was removed and she just wouldnāt take as much loperamide as she needed. (It took getting admitted to the hospital for malnutrition and severely low blood pressure for it to even start to be handled.)
long story short, the cause of many of the problems my mom was having was her systemic scleroderma, which is a hardening of tissue. Mom has a hard time swallowing pills, they get stuck in a pouch/ridge in her throat, she chokes, itās a whole thing.
Turns out thereās liquid versions! So! If, like my mom, you canāt take pills donāt fret! Thereās a liquid version of that. (And if youāre saying to yourself āpfft, everybody knows that!ā CLEARLY NOT!)
anyway, now mom gets all of her nutrition and medications through a tube in her stomach and Iām finally starting to be optimistic about our situation even though sheās now in a personal care home⦠take care of your guts and health.


















