Monday 9th March 2009

No stickiness so far today, but I have just had a couple of hours kip to sleep off a bit of a sickie feeling. I'm not sure this was necessarily to do with over-eating, but I also had a lot of abdominal pain at the same time, which will manifest in a bout of diarrhea no doubt later on (although nothing has materialised yet).

I have these supplement drinks which I am supposed to have each day - the recommendation is two a day, but I'm struggling to manage more than one. They come in two forms - a milkshake and a thick juice - both are high in calories, protein, carbs, vitamins and minerals. They taste ok to me, but they are the key factor in making me feel sick. I need to make each one last a long time, but this is really difficult. They seem to go down really easily, then suddenly I feel sick. I'm a bit worried that it has become psychological - I'm scared of them because I think they are going to make me sick, and lo and behold, they do. I'm persevering with one a day at the moment, and taking a Berocca tablet (multi-vitamin and minterals) as well which doesn't cause me to feel sick. However, the supplements have things in them which the Berocca doesn't (Vitamin A, D and K, Iron etc), so I would like to be able to manage two. I will discuss it with the dietitian when I speak to her in a couple of days.

So overall, I'm doing ok, but I'm spending most of my waking hours feeling a combination of hungry and sick! Not ideal, but again, I've felt worse in my life, just maybe not for quite as long a duration. It will get better. It WILL get better!

Cheers,

Colin