Saw the gastroenterologist yesterday.  Told me blood is most likely related to the constipation and the constipation is most likely related to antibiotic carpet bombed gut bacteria.

     I’m going to undergo a colonoscopy just to make sure there isn’t anything bad growing there and to check for polyps and the like since I’m 57 and haven’t had one.  Not looking forward to it, especially the preparation for it where I have to drink literally a gallon of laxative.

     They tell me it takes 6-9 months for gut bacteria to re-establish itself.  In the meantime it’s Miralax and probiotics.

     As my body is getting used to metFormin, I am feeling better.  At first I had zero energy and a lot of pain but now pain is diminishing and energy is improving.

     Today I go in to have electrodes stabbed into my nerves and electricity sent to see exactly how much pain they can induce.  Seems like something dreamed up in a Nazi interrogation.