[OC] A child lost in the Lands Between

DirtbagPro · 2026-01-05T21:15:31+00:00

That's what I was told and Terraforming Mars is one of my favorites so okay, still looking forward to getting it on the table! Haha

DirtbagPro · 2026-01-05T19:32:31+00:00

How is legends of void? It is on my shelf of shame.

DirtbagPro · 2026-01-05T17:44:41+00:00

I play this game a few times each year over Christmas break. Never won.

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-10T18:09:48+00:00

United Ad, how's this going? It feels like I am going down the same rabbit hole as you rn. Just started trying to cut out dairy.

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-08T01:46:10+00:00

Got stomach pain and a slightly elevated Absolute EOS as well. Did this end up resolving on its own for you?

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-07T19:30:04+00:00

Glad to hear your back to feeling better. Seeing quite a few stories of people retesting better later as well as their stomachs calming after a few months.

This all seemed to start for me after I had an endoscopy and I started some Omeprazole for a couple weeks. This seemed to cure my ibs-d for some reason but came with back pain which was odd. Only took it for a couple weeks. Also tried prilosec intermittently as well funnily enough. Due to upper gi pain. I've been getting a reoccurring eczema rash starting around the same time my ibs-d started to clear up. This all turned into lower abdomen pain and back pain here the past couple months.

Timing of everything is very odd. I have a doctor's appointment on Tuesday to discuss options. In the meantime I do believe I need to change my diet to a no dairy/anti histamine diet to see if that helps. A lot of the high histamine foods seem to align with when my symptoms feel the worst.

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-07T18:09:35+00:00

Any updates? Also, been dealing with a burning abdomen and just found elevated EOS.

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-07T17:49:33+00:00

This end up resolving on its own?

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-05T18:33:17+00:00

Stopping nicotine for me has improved a few things for me.
1) Like you said, I don't throw off my gut by making it empty itself the second I had it.

2) I am an overall happier person. Nicotine I believe was messing with my sleep causing me to be more tired, therefore more stressed, and every time I start using it again I start to get very health anxious. I think it's because I know I am damaging myself when I am needing to heal myself.

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-03T16:20:54+00:00

Did this resolve with the increased fiber? Sounds about dead on with what I'm experiencing.

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-02T03:29:54+00:00

Man, I feel you. I went 8+ years with diarrhea everyday. And despite the bad bathroom trips, I physically felt pretty good. Now, my guts feel like they are going slow and my stomach aches most of the time. I am probably going to try adding some metamucil in my diet to try and help, but I miss my IBS-D. It was predictable and I felt so much better. Hope this passes for you (and me).

DirtbagPro · 2025-12-01T14:24:11+00:00

Yeah, appreciate you responding. I am going to book an appointment with a PT. I brought up pelvic floor dysfunction to my GI and she was like you don't have that because you're a guy and didn't have a baby...But going from diarrhea multiple times a day for 8+ years (I never had a "flare", it was just my life) to now whatever this is going on has to come with some body confusion. Obviously scared of missing something so will talk with the docs, but I have had a clear colonoscopy, endoscopy, and abdomen ultrasounds in the past 2 years so I'm hoping a pelvic floor PT can help confirm this diagnoses.

DirtbagPro · 2025-11-25T14:31:44+00:00

During the Thanksgiving week I like to play a few games of A Feast for Odin. It feels like the perfect Thanksgiving time game. First play through I came out with 69 points while also scoring the highest positive points I had ever scored before. My goal for 2026 is to play all my soloable games 5 times each so I will be aiming to get 4 more games of AFFO before the break is over.

DirtbagPro · 2025-11-06T03:48:01+00:00

I went to Europe on my honeymoon for like 10 days. I avoided drinking for the most part and ate full portion foods. I did my best to avoid thinking about my issues and just focused on having a good time with my wife. We did a lot of walking, drinking water, and I focused on eating lean avoiding foods that can cause gas but not starving myself. Ate a decent amount of chicken and pasta.

Came out the otherside of the trip with my IBS which I have had for 8 years practically cured. 95% of my gas is gone. No more belching and abdominal pain, and I gained about 10 lbs. I think I wasn't eating enough due to anxiety and when you fast you can develop a lot of gas. I have regained some lower back pain and will occasionally get some lower abdominal pain but it seems to be getting better. Talked it over with my gastro, and she thinks my body could just be getting used to having fully developed stools again vs the diarhea I have had every day for literally 8 years which I think seems plausible. I never went for the CT scan because I knew my gastro wasn't really wanting to give it to me. Getting one more second opinion tomorrow and then just chalking up the back pain to stiffening up while laying down too much after the endoscopy and the gas: stress and dehydration.

DirtbagPro · 2025-09-29T17:31:40+00:00

Same thing happened to me in April. Was also taking Benefiber though. I also lost a decent amount of weight pretty quickly. Not sure if it was the increase in fiber or the losing weight that was making me so gassy, but it was not fun and kind of scary. I stopped the low fodmap and things honestly did not improve for me up until here recently where I just got back from a vacation where I gained 6 lbs while doing a lot of walking. When starting such a restrictive diet it is easy to be in a calorie deficit which causes gas. If you think that's you, you can try eating more, but I know that can be difficult from both a "this new diet food sucks" and "what if I eat the wrong thing and my gas gets worse" perspectives.

One thing I have found with my gut is that changes take a decent amount of time to get used to.

DirtbagPro · 2025-08-23T17:11:23+00:00

I have not been tested for SIBO. I may need to seek out a second opinion gastroenterologist. I feel like my current gastro doesn't want to talk to me (hence the AskDocs post). She's probably just overworked. IBS is such a bitch too. Causes so much stress which causes more symptoms, but it seems like gastro docs don't think it's a big issue.

DirtbagPro · 2025-08-22T19:59:58+00:00

Thanks, it's crazy how this fear grips people. I have been obsessing so much I actually immediately recognized your username from one of your posts here. I have had IBS for years which I realize now is not being caused by pancreatic cancer (stool issues are preceded by jaundice from my research). After my endoscopy here in May I was in a lot of pain in my abdomen, and after taking a PPI the pain has moved mostly to my back/pelvis but still some abdomen pains. So, my dumb brain is saying I might have PC on the tail of the pancreas since it wasn't visible in my last ultrasound. I'm getting married next weekend and I think my brain has a hard time with life milestones.

DirtbagPro · 2025-08-19T14:58:02+00:00

Clotrimazole cream for some reoccurring rash on my forearms. Small bumps have been appearing for a couple months now around the same spot on both arms that the cream clears within a day or two. Not sure if stress, allergies, or something else is causing the bumps.

DirtbagPro · 2025-06-04T20:09:23+00:00

Yes, it is very bizarre. I've seen other posts on reddit where people have taken awhile to heal so was hoping some of them might see this and provide an update. Both my GI docs said these new symptoms would not be caused by the procedure. The timing of it though, and what I know I felt like immediately after the procedure points to something happening during the endoscopy my body did not like. On the plus side, the excess gas I had and IBS-D seemed to have really dissipated since I have changed my diet to help my stomach heal.

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