About EllieKathrin

My name is Ellie. You may know me as aholytaxaccountant, as that is my personal blog url. I’m currently 19, awaiting my semester at a cosmetology school.

I might get around to posting pictures of myself, but for now, I’ll just give basic stats:
I am 5’1”.
I currently weigh roughly 105lbs.
I have Dyspepsia (under the umbrella of diseases as Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
I swam on varsity swimming for three years, I am a swimmer, and I need to get back into shape, and tone up.

My goal weight is 100lbs.
My ultimate goal is to be healthy, happy, and in control of my life and my body.

Hopefully, that gave you some insight as to who I am, and what I hope this blog can do.

In further detail, I was diagnosed with IBS about five years ago after undergoing numerous tests during my freshman/sophomore year of high school. Irritable Bowel Syndrome is basically a diagnosis of elimination. I did not respond well to medication, I did not test positive for allergies, ciliacs or chron’s disease, I had an upper and lower GI (endoscopy, colonoscopy), and just about every other blood test under the sun. Everything continued to come back inconclusive.

I saw a nutritionist for a while, as well as a therapist much later in my junior and senior year. In my senior year as a last ditch resort, my GI and internist decided that I was simply depressed and needed therapy. As part of a home-bound program requirement(since this was now affecting my school work severely) I also saw a psychiatrist. Of course all the medications had either no effect, or a negative one: I was not hormonally imbalanced, I was sick. I barely took any of my script of Lexapro, Prozac made me dull and stagnant, Zoloft broke me out in hives.

After school let out and I had graduated, I stopped seeing my third therapist (whom I actually loved, in contrast to the two before her), my psychiatrist, and my internist.

Currently, I still see my gynecologist, who is simply wonderful. I have issues with severe cramps and have been put on continual birth control. As of january, our insurance changed and I was able to see a new GI, who diagnosed me with Dyspepsia. He prescribed Dexilant, Zofran, as well as a probiotic. Since this round of medications, my nausea is under control for the first time in years. Now it’s up to me to get my health back in order and find the right combination of medications and nutrition in order to take back control of my body.

That sums it up, mostly. Dyspepsia, birthcontrol, need to be fit, and mostly, need to be healthy. It is really difficult to conquer IBS/Dyspesia, when there is no set treatment. Everything is up in the air, nothing is similar from patient to patient.

If you have any questions regarding IBS/dyspepsia treatments, IBS diets, medical procedures, birth control, depression medications, natural treatments, or anything in between, I’d be glad to answer. And I’m also sort of qualified, no?

Anyway, be active, healthy, and happy! :)