We Be Flarin'

Over the past few days I have been feeling  excessively drained. Unusually drained.
It is true that I have been wearing myself out more than usual, but the type of drain I have been feeling had me a little concerned.
I got my answer today!
In blood (muahaha).

I am a little relieved because it isn't anything I have not dealt with before.
Relieved is not the term one would expect to feel when seeing blood, but it entirely explains the depth of drain that I have been feeling. It makes more sense.

So I am experiencing a Crohn's flare.
(Actually it is probably more of a Pouchitis flare but I hate calling it that because Chronic Pouchitis sounds like a made-up disease. It's not - it is ulcerative colitis without the colon: inflammation of the J-pouch - but Crohn's flare just makes more sense to most people and it is essentially the same symptoms).

It could be from activity. It could be from the arugula I just bought (which would be a piss off because I actually really love arugula). It could be from getting myself rundown. It could be a different food or trigger of which I do not know.

What I DO know - what I am fairly certain about - is that it is not serious enough to get worried. I have some pain (hello, duh! Your intestines are injured enough to be bleeding!), and I am pretty weak, but I also know that a few days of rest, maybe a full fluid diet for a couple days, and maybe some cortifoam, and I will be back to my usual intestinal pain within a few days.

Blood=relief.

What a strange strange life this patient life is!