Is this forever?

by Stephanie
(United States)

Hello,

I struggled with dibilitating IBS symptoms off and on for about 6 years and it progressively got worse 3 years ago. I was finally diagnosed with IBS and mostly struggled with constipation until this year I started struggling with diarrhea.


A year ago I had to quite a job that I loved, stopped volunteering a various jobs I also enjoyed, even have lost friendships because of my lack of availablity to my dibilitating health issues. I got so insanely sick losing 60lbs in 2 months an all the doctors could tell me was it was all in my head! Of course the big pusher with my doctor was anti-depressents. So out of desperation I get on them in hopes it would help. Did it? No! It only caused other issues.


It helps writing and venting out my struggles here. It helps even more knowing that I'm not alone. I have a very difficult time getting my family to understand which has hurt me very badly and caused me to not want anything to do with them.


My husband goes through waves of being really supportive and then sick of me. My illnesses has caused a lot of marital issues. Makes me more mad at myself for not being able to fix my symptoms. I won't even go through the big long list of different prescriptions, diets, exercises, counseling, massages, etc. I've been on trying to help myself. How have you handled lack of family support? Are you able to work?