No stress and no fibers

France, evening

It may sound like a very strange combination, stress and fibers, but this is what the specialist (a gastro-enterologist) who saw me yesterday told me to avoid for a couple of days (well the stress for longer)....I don't know why, but it seems that every time I have something that goes out of what it is normal, doctors get lost in finding what to do with me. I definitively need the Dr. House around here!

However, here it is how the story went.
Lunch with a friend on wednesday last week. At the end of the lunch I felt very bad, like if my belly was at the point to explode. So, I quickly paid, said goodbye and decided to relax in front of the computer...since when sitting in front of the computer at work is relaxing..... Anyway, in about an hour I had a lump popping out more or less where the sternum is. I am hypochondriac, but even without that, I am sure I would have got worried.
I called my general doctor for an appointment. She was not there, but the substitute could see me in an hour. I went and she told me that she could feel the lump too and if I abuse of alcohol, which I don't. Do you smoke? no. Do you have a diet with a lot of fat? no.
So probably it is nothing too serious, but I should get a sonogram, start a treatment for a gastritis and that possibly I could have a hiatus hernia.

All this out of nowhere in about an hour time in which I have been only eating and sitting in front of the computer? Come on. I did worse things than that in my life and nothing happened!!!

Anyway, completely freaked out, crying and imagining myself not being able to dance anymore (very important point), run, using my cool scooter and rollerblading (all essential things) I got the sonogram the next day. The doctor giving me the sonogram went: ah, good, good, everything ok, liver is ok, pancreas is ok, there are not tumors or things that could look bad...................................................and I didn't hear the rest....

Tumors???? from where this come from??? I didn't even think about that. And he continued: no but look, it is good, because there is nothing, so don't worry, everything looks ok from here.....

I left the place totally spaced out and went back to my general doctor. Her: ok, so it doesn't look like a hernia. I think it is gastritis. Are the pills working?
Me: How can it be a gastritis if I have none of the symptoms? and not, the pills are not working (but in a day what can you expect???)...
Her: ok, you should see a gastro-enterologist for an endoscopy....but don't worry, I am sure that it is nothing bad.
Me: ah, yes, yes....

Got the appointment with this specialist for monday, yesterday. Of course, as the lump I have comes and goes, when I went there, it was not there (it has its own life I think)...so this specialist told me:
Him: Why did the doctor mentioned a hernia if there is no chance that this is a hernia?
Me: eh?
Him: is not a hiatus hernia because you couldn't feel it from outside in the shape of a lump like you said, it is inside. And there is no hernia from the sonogram.
Me: good.
Him: do some abdominal.
Me: eh?
Him: some abdominal, without using the hands.
I did
Him: good muscles. So, you can't have any external hernia, because it doesn't pop out if you do the abdominal.
Me: good.
Him: why did the doctor give you these pills if you have no symptoms of gastritis?
Me: that is what I said too.
Him: so stop that.
Me: ok, so what is it this thing?
Him: no idea. But it is nothing to worry about for sure. Do you stress a lot?
Me: yes
Him: like recently or on a regular base?
Me: on a regular base, with peaks, some of which recently.
Him: do you eat a lot of fruits and vegetables?
Me: yes, basically I live out of that.
Him: ok for 3 days no fibers at all, especially no fruits and vegetables and no stress. This should improve already some of the problems and for the lump, I have no idea what it could be. If you don't feel better in 15 days, give me a call. And take also these pills that they also give to babies, they are light but they can help your stomach.

So, now I am here and I am already puzzled of what I am going to eat in the next two days, as I had rice yesterday, a breakfast in which I couldn't avoid fibers, lunch with a sandwich with no high fibers bread, no vegetables, just goat cheese and oil and a dinner with boiled potatoes and eggs. I am already quite bored...and I feel the same.

Of course, since I should try to not get stressed, today I got even more stressed than I normally am, absolutely for no reason.....

Next time I have a health problem, I am going to find out my own treatment....in any case what the substitute of my general doctor told me when I saw her was quite random anyway, so I may well find a cure faster on my own.....

I am on a high carb diet......................not really my ideal.....