This is the 2 diagnoses that a 4th-yr medic senior of mine came up with after telling him the conditions that I have been experiencing for the past 11 years. Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Referring to the problems I am having with my stomach. It just gets nasty once in a while. Sometimes once a month, sometimes once in every 2 months. Well I guess a few factors are involved. One of them is definitely my diet. What I am feeding my stomach with upsets him as he may be sensitive to certain compounds. (Lactose intolerant for example. But strangely, although certain smell in the fresh white milk will instantaneously trigger reflexive vomiting; if the smell is completely covered as in Chocolate milk or with some other flavour, then there will not be any problems... am I really lactose intolerant?) (This part will be considered disgusting by some people. If you cannot stand 'shitty' sentences, please refrain from reading this part.) Then whenever I develop indigestion or excessive acids in stomach, my body system will respond with a diarrhoea and lots of flatulence. This is how all the materials stuck in my gastrointestinal track got cleared out. Is this healthy in the long run? Allergic Rhinitis: None other than my beloved and wonderful nose. Come to think about it, actually I should not blame my nose coz its not his fault. Its my over-protective immune system against dust. Yeah, dust is the culprit amongst all the possible allergents. Solution? First and foremost, terutamanya (yes, I have not forgotten my Malay... haha): Hygiene! Get a dust-resistant pillow cover, and might as well change to a new pillow at the same time. Could cost a bit more but its a sound and reasonable investment. For the sake of my nose!!! Its really worrying to have leaky nose every morning, sometimes throughout the day, and worst case causing all sorts of other infections in the throat and develop a fever in the end! Exactly what has happened to me last weekend. Luckily I have the all-the-effective 枇杷膏 (Pi Pa Gao) with me, killing all the microbes that are trying to infest my throat. There's another reason that was strongly suggested by my senior: stress level. Maybe it does affect to a certain extent, although I may not feel stressed psychologically. Could be my body's functional response towards it? Haiz, another evidence to my earlier Hypothesis that I am getting numb towards exams. In fact its my psychological state: its sensitivity towards academic stress is declining, perhaps, in an exponential fashion? Wondering if my post sounds a little too scientific... :P |
