Thanks, TE Marie. That is very encouraging.
The crazy thing is, about the last 3-4 days I've been feeling better than I have in the last few years. All I can think of is that I've been eating low carb for years (which has helped with bloating and general dicomfort), along with the addition of Imodium and Gas X about 2 weeks ago. I also added Culturelle 4 days ago. Is that what you mean by superdigestive enzymes? Additionally, the GI said I could take Imodium up to 4x's/day versus the 2x's/day I've been doing. Two days I did take it 3x's/day and it was almost too much; I couldn't eliminate as easily. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to going so little, lol. I have gone from about 10-20 BM's/day to 5-6 BM's!
Anyway, last night I slept like a hibrinating bear. I didn't wake up once and had no accidents. Normally I am up repeatedly and have leakage. Actually, I haven't had leakage in many days where normally I leak many times/day. I have been so sleep deprived for so long, which obviously affects quality of life. It was a blessing to sleep last night!
I am so grateful, but it's like when you call the repair man and suddenly nothing is broken, lol! I have a full scope on Tues.
She plans on checking the small intestine, too. She is looking for overall health and to check for possible cuffitis, crohns, health of the pouch, etc. She did discover a stricture last week. At this point I am willing to go for the scope bc I am very overdue. However, I don't want her to mess with the stricture with dilation. I don't want to fix what's not broken!
I just hope to get a clean bill of health and then get on with why I am low energy and figure out what supplements I need.
Sorry this got so long.....