Need some support PLEASE!!!!

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Hi everyone,

Well, this has been a bad week for me. I cannot swallow ANY food and

very little water. I am sipping tiny sips of water through a straw,

and can get down a few small swallows of soup. That is all. I'm

losing about a pound a day, and I am starving. I can't even take my

smallest pills without chewing them.

I don't know what is wrong with me. I have not been diagnosed with

A. but am seeing a specialist in that area (Dr. Little)on Tues. I

have seen a rheumatologist Sat. about my Sjogrens and he gave me

Salagin to take (for saliva production) but it hasn't helped. I am

also scheduled for a scope on Thurs.

I just don't know what to do - I am so frustrated and a little

depressed. I am fighting to stay optomistic but it is hard. I have

never been this bad before - have never had trouble swallowing

water.

My family, God bless them, aren't helping. They are so overly

supportive and sympathetic to me that they are going to great

lengths to make food seem like 'no big deal', even to the extent of

not eating food that I like. Plus they ask me 100 times a day if I

can eat this, or eat that, which I simply cannot. It is dragging me

down, too.

I just wanted to vent here - you guys know what this is like. Sorry

for the long letter, just had to talk.

...starving in Ohio