In active flare up

My first few posts have been about past history.  Just thought I'd write a little about the present day.

I was put declared as being in remission by my consultant at Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge about 18 months ago (yey!)

About 5 months ago I moved from Cambridgeshire back down to my home County of Cornwall. I am currently living with my Parents in the family home - along with my husband and two young girls (see my other blog "diary of a boomerang kid" for more details).

Coming on for 2 months ago I started to experience extreme bloating and very uncomfortable pains in my upper abdomen - like sever indigestion.  My Dad also experienced the same thing, and it seemed we had both picked up a stomach bug. The pains in the abdomen, then moved on to frequent and urgent diarrhoea.  I immediately started to worry that I may be experiencing a flare up, but was comforted by the fact that my Dad had the same symptoms and with luck we would both get over it.  Well, my Dad took a full week to recover, and I had actually got to the point of telling him he should go and see his Doctor as a week was too long for a simple bug.  The day after this advice, he was better.  For me however, it has been a little different.  My symptoms are still there.  If I stop eating - or at least eat nothing but soup for 24 hours, then the pain and diarrheoa disappear.  As soon as I begin eating a balanced diet, then severe pain in my upper abdomen and a distended, uncomfortable gut, ow I do, and my Doctor knows I do, and yet I am not under a consultant.  I know that when I eventually see the doctor, he will then have to write a referral letter.  It could easily be another month before I finally get to see a consultant.

I daren't eat anything but white stuff, as I do not want to exacerbate the flare.  I should count myself lucky really as I am able to manage the condition at the moment, but I am getting rather bored of eating plain, uninteresting food!  Well, I will keep you posted on my current flare, and update if anything changes, or with what the consutant says - if I ever get one!