When you're having a Crohn's flare, you'll be dealing with symptoms that include abdominal pain and cramping, diarrhea that can be both sudden and explosive, gas, bloating, nausea, and more. If you have a career and can't just stay home, or if there is an event that you simply must attend, and can't get out of or postpone, or an important meeting, you may want to keep the fact that you have Crohn's disease to yourself, and hide the symptoms that you're having as best you can. It is probably impossible to completely hide all your Crohn's symptoms, but the following 20 tips may help. 1. Take the medicines your doctor has prescribed. This sounds like it should be too obvious to even list, but not everyone is "med compliant," to use the term a
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Check out their website, or that of any of the other brands of incontinence garments, and be sure to keep some on hand at home, so that you can carry them with you when you need them. It may save your panties, but just in case it doesn't, remember tip 5 too. 9. Before your meeting or work, avoid foods you know might cause Crohn's symptoms. Whether you are eating the night before your meeting or work, or the morning of the event, avoid foods that you know will cause cramping, diarrhea, and gas. For me, that means, among other things, avoiding broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. I 10. Avoid foods that will cause you to have cramping or diarrhea if you are at a business lunch or dinner, or a dinner party. If you have to, say you have already eaten to help hide the fact that the food served will cause Crohn's symptoms. Stick to foods you know you can tolerate. 11. Wear flats or low-heeled shoes. If you want to get out of the room, or to the bathroom, quickly, this is not the time for 4-inch spiked heels. You need footwear that you can move quickly in, in order to keep those symptoms hidden from the people …show more content…
Lessons that were taught inside the classroom were incredibly valuable. (Almost as valuable as those learned outside of the classroom) Despite all of my acquired knowledge about understanding human differences and whatever the hell macro-economics was supposed to teach me, my parents still feel that they know what is best for me and can therefore make my decisions for me. It's ridiculous, sometimes, I know. I love them with all of my heart but come on guys. But one lesson that I learned outside the hallowed walls of my liberal education is that I can pretty much do whatever I want as long as I make it seem like they are persuading me to do it. Let's take the taboo issue of birth control. Many parents do not allow their children to be on birth control for religious reasons. Well, that is silly. What they should be worried about is whether their daughter is having pre-marital sex and if so, is she using protection? But my soap box is not on the benefits of contraceptives. Just go to Planned Parenthood and they can tell you more than I could possibly tell you about safe sex. Instead, I am going to give advice on how to talk your way out of an argument that would surely end in, "I am very disappointed in your life decisions" which is never fun to hear from the parentals. For those of you whose parents still live in 18th century Catholicism, secrecy is your number one strategy. I support an open relationship full of trust
Check out their website, or that of any of the other brands of incontinence garments, and be sure to keep some on hand at home, so that you can carry them with you when you need them. It may save your panties, but just in case it doesn't, remember tip 5 too. 9. Before your meeting or work, avoid foods you know might cause Crohn's symptoms. Whether you are eating the night before your meeting or work, or the morning of the event, avoid foods that you know will cause cramping, diarrhea, and gas. For me, that means, among other things, avoiding broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. I 10. Avoid foods that will cause you to have cramping or diarrhea if you are at a business lunch or dinner, or a dinner party. If you have to, say you have already eaten to help hide the fact that the food served will cause Crohn's symptoms. Stick to foods you know you can tolerate. 11. Wear flats or low-heeled shoes. If you want to get out of the room, or to the bathroom, quickly, this is not the time for 4-inch spiked heels. You need footwear that you can move quickly in, in order to keep those symptoms hidden from the people …show more content…
Lessons that were taught inside the classroom were incredibly valuable. (Almost as valuable as those learned outside of the classroom) Despite all of my acquired knowledge about understanding human differences and whatever the hell macro-economics was supposed to teach me, my parents still feel that they know what is best for me and can therefore make my decisions for me. It's ridiculous, sometimes, I know. I love them with all of my heart but come on guys. But one lesson that I learned outside the hallowed walls of my liberal education is that I can pretty much do whatever I want as long as I make it seem like they are persuading me to do it. Let's take the taboo issue of birth control. Many parents do not allow their children to be on birth control for religious reasons. Well, that is silly. What they should be worried about is whether their daughter is having pre-marital sex and if so, is she using protection? But my soap box is not on the benefits of contraceptives. Just go to Planned Parenthood and they can tell you more than I could possibly tell you about safe sex. Instead, I am going to give advice on how to talk your way out of an argument that would surely end in, "I am very disappointed in your life decisions" which is never fun to hear from the parentals. For those of you whose parents still live in 18th century Catholicism, secrecy is your number one strategy. I support an open relationship full of trust