Progress!

I haven’t been up to posting in a while. First I was recovering from our trip. That took a while. Then I really started seeing the benefit from the Nerva hypnotherapy and the Cymbalta.

The pain that has been a constant presence for the previous 6 months had quietly moved into the background until it just faded away. If you have even mild IBS (what it is labeled for) or gastroparesis (what I used it for), I cannot recommend Nerva enough. Available on both the Apple and Google app stores. Worth the $149 and the 15 minutes a day. Truly.

With the motility pain gone, it was finally time to see if I could start increasing the speed on my pump. In just a few weeks, I have gone from being stuck at 25 ml per hour, where I had been for months. I am now up to 33ml per hour. And based on how I am feeling today, we will stay here for another day or two before I am ready to increase to 34ml per hour. It is slow going. But, it is progress.

My body is responding by storing all of those new calories because I am gaining weight again. I don’t know for sure that this is the case, but I think it is the cymbalta. I gained a whole bunch of weight when I went on it the first time.

I am almost up to 1,000 calories a day. Sadly, since so much is going into storage, I am not getting the benefit of those new calories. I remain stuck in limbo where I can only knit a couple of rows on really good days. I want more functionality. But wanting is not enough to make it happen, so I will just have to go back to radically accepting my reality and go back to being patient.

December is a month of GI visits, as I have appointments with 3 of them. Including my tube GI. I am planning on asking her again about when I am due for a tube swap. I am not eager to get rid of the one I have. We have a working understanding and it doesn’t cause me undue pain. But it feels like it may be getting a bit worn out. I would rather plan a tube swap than wait until the tube flips or there is some other emergency. We will se what she has to say.