You'll get there Trish,just take it slow.
OH! And do as you're told
Yes, hopefully it's all working, albeit slowly. ...and yes, I
will do as I'm told as I have no desire to get that dangerously ill again if I can avoid it.
Boring diet, weak aching muscles & joints ...but so be it. If that's what it takes to stay well, I'll do it.
Takes things easy Trish, time is the best healer with rest.
I know what mean about the vaping/smoking thing while I'll. I'd just started the vaping journey and was just off the cig-a-likes and onto the my first ego types when I had the crash. Nearly 9 weeks in 2 hospitals and I never thought about it.
The minute the ambulance dropped me back at home and I crossed the step that was it, the crave hit and I lit up. Took just over a year to get back on the vape. Hadn't enjoyed smoking for years before and not bothered about vaping much now. It's just the physical habit with me, I'm sure of it.
Get well soon.
Yes, I'll go with it and let things take their course towards recovery - not usually so patient, but desperate not to get to that stage again.
So odd when you think how we clung on to cigarettes, that we can disregard e cigs so easily. No brainer in those first 4-5 days, but even after that, I wasn't bothered in the least.
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Now, regarding what I suspected regarding ulcerative colitis and stopping smoking before it escalated to the level it did: Initially I had a consultant who was fighting the infection with some pretty aggressive stuff, and he asked did I smoke, and I told him yes, until 20 months ago. He and his colleagues exchanged knowing nods, and I said that I did know about the link. (Anyone with a genetic marker for suffering from UC under certain circumstances loses some sort of protection when they stop smoking, and a percentage (true statistics unknown as yet) go on to develop UC).
He further asked had it run in my family - it had not, so he said that the trigger for mine had to then be stress, so I needed to try and avoid all stressful situations in future.
I'd had a number of stressful situations to deal with over the past 2-3 years, and it obviously built up to an intolerable level.
M y second consultant was the 3rd ward I was moved to for starting treating the UC itself, and again, the same exchange with me, the consultant and his colleagues. He said the they're getting increasing incidences of UC occurring for the first time in
some ex smokers, and that they would be the percentage that would be more likely prone to it under certain circumstances. No doubt because of the huge numbers managing to stop by using e cigs! Nothing has ever been so successful before.
This is where I'm seeing one probable good use for genetic marker testing for specifics, and my GP agreed - he said that within 10 years, they may be seeing people asking for a test for just such a possibility when they're considering giving up smoking, and they can then discuss with their doctor the for and against depending on their general health at that time.
I for one was never ill at all when I smoked. No saying I never would have been, but it would have been good to have the information to weigh up the options!