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When you're struck with a flare-up at work and try your damnedest to ride it out.
2.
When your body quadruples in size from bloating just because you ate a whole meal in one sitting.
3.
When you're too physically exhausted to hydrate to return to your normal human form.
4.
And hours later, you're still recovering.
5.
When your stomach has no chill and just lets a meal sit there for hours.
6.
When your intestines try to strangle your kidneys.
7.
When you focus with the strength of a dozen monks to try to relieve yourself of gas without being detected.
8.
When your body suddenly reminds you that you ate dairy earlier.
9.
When everything you love to eat makes your abdomen burn with the fire of a thousand suns.
10.
When you're too weak to do anything but recline and pray for relief.
11.
When going to the bathroom doesn’t even help your situation.
12.
When you have to go to the doctor for one sort of “-oscopy” or another.
13.
When people talk about how regular they are.
14.
When you try to go out and have fun, but every movement is a gut stab.
15.
When you’re starving, but you know eating as much as you want will destroy you.
16.
When your only option is a public restroom.
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And when all you want in the entire world is to make it to the bathroom without shitting yourself.
