My first blog.

Wow! This is exciting. I have wanted to start a blog for awhile now but I never knew what I should focus on. Then an idea came to me.

I have lived with IBS-C which stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with constipation, since I have been 18. I am now 27. There have been times that the bloating and pain in my gut have been so bad I am literally doubled over on the floor to keep myself from passing out. I have gone up to 3 weeks before having a *ahem* poop. As you can imagine I looked about 9 months pregnant and felt horribly sick.
When I was younger it started out only on occasion. I would get constipated when I went away from home. Then it started happening randomly for no apparent reason. I went away to college at 19 years old and all hell broke loose. I was so sick, constipated, and in pain that entire year of school. I only left my room to go to class and the gym when I felt up to it. I made a good friend, Ben was his name, the first week and lost him as a friend because I could do nothing but lay in bed.
When I came home at the end of my year it seemed I would be sick forever. I became very depressed. I started taking laxatives on the weekends and starving myself to keep the pain and bloating away so I could go out with my friends. Then Monday would come and I'd survive through the week only to take a pile of laxatives Friday night. Sometimes I would feel like I was living a double life. A semi 'normal' person on the weekend (also a very hungry person), and a very sick, depressed person through the week.
Other things started happening in my body as well like insomnia, back pain on and off, heart burn, indigestion, headaches, and the scariest one of all..Iritis. I soon learned these things are all related.
To make a very long story short I recently found a book titled 'IBS Low Starch Diet' by Carol Sinclair. I believe every word of the book and so I have decided to blog my experience doing this diet. Also to blog what life is like living with IBS. It is not 'all in my head', as I have been told by various, ignorant people and doctors..it is a very real, horrible sickness.
I'll write more about the book and the diet tomorrow. Today I am going shopping for low starch food.