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So! My name's Keenan, I'm presently undiagnosed (pending this thursday, yay!) however my scope revealed a good amount of deep ulceration and inflammation cohesive with severe Crohn's. Now I've read up on treatment options, the big pharma way, the natural way with diets and medical cannabis and...

Side note on veggies: if you miss those wonderful seasonal flavours, purees are a great alternative and are ridiculously easy to digest in comparison to the whole vegetable. The key to an immaculate puree is temperature, to avoid graininess or lumpiness the vegetables need to be scolding hot and...

Hey Beach! Thanks for your reply and the well wishes! I understand the necessity of eating bland as you put it, especially to help deal with the symptoms that we're plagued with. Do you find things like salt or lemon aggravate symptoms? People outside the affected populous of IBD seem to...

They won't discharge you if you develop it during your service, however because you have it prior to application and recruitment, they probably won't accept you. It's not a matter of symptoms, it's that they can't guarantee that they can get your medication to you adequately whilst you're...

So! My name's Keenan, I'm presently undiagnosed (pending this thursday, yay!) however my scope revealed a good amount of deep ulceration and inflammation cohesive with severe Crohn's. Now I've read up on treatment options, the big pharma way, the natural way with diets and medical cannabis and...

Cannabis oil probably wouldn't hurt! Ingesting it orally lessens the psychoactive effects, or at least negates them to what is coined as 'a body high'. however ingesting it rather than inhaling it is a much better option for treatment as there are a lot of cannabinoid receivers located...

ShellK I know the feeling, I've been waiting since about the beginning of January as well and I've just seen my specialist/had my colonoscopy last week. The waiting never helps anxiety but answers are coming and very soon!! Big hugs to everyone! Keenan

I'm sorry to hear about such a unfortunate train of events, I caved and had just a couple puffs of a coworkers dart after a busy dinner service the other night and not smoking with Crohn's for like a solid year and it absolutely DESTROYED my system. Same thing, bad D lost a little blood...

^ Indeed! The waiting and the anxiety that comes with it is the worst part (aside from colonoscopy prep, which is not terrible, but not pleasant either) Waiting for the actual day of the procedure gets easier and easier, and time wil pass more quickly as it approaches. Just keep that...

Hello all! I'm very much new to the support group and I've sort of done more reading and reflecting than I have posting and sending support. I just wanted to thank you all for sharing your stories, your concerns, and words of wisdom with the rest of us. It's a weird, confusing and scary road...

That's just it, there's no one test for crohn's, the combination of the CT scan and colonoscopy will be extremely helpful in actually coming to a conclusion. I hope the wait isn't as bad out there on the East coast as it is here in the prairies!!

Hey McLee, I too had a perianal abscess drainage about 2 years ago, which was shortly after the time i started feeling Crohn's - like symptoms, which i had associated with food intolerances at the time. Alas here we are 2 years later and I'm going for a CT scan this weekend and a colonoscopy...

Hi there, My name's Keenan, I'm new to this forum and even newer to this support group. I haven't been diagnosed with Crohn's or Fibro (yet to either) by any accord but I was hoping for a chance to say hello and pick everyone's brain if that's alright :) I haven't experienced much in the way...

If it ever ramps up your anxiety enough, listen to your body and bring it up with the Doc again, it may be something like fibromyalgia that they just need to rule other options out with testing :)

Joe and Lisa, I know what you mean, I've considered leaving my career as a sous chef to find something a little less stressful because it's a hbuge contributor to like 90% of my symptoms. From pain to D to panic attacks and weird pains and pressure throughout my body (might be looking into...

I get the heaviness in my legs all the time, I figured more answers with diagnosis as well I don't have much time with work to just up and head to the doctor whenever I feel like and they haven't caused much other problems in the last 2 months (when I started having noticeable symptoms)

Does anyone else's anxiety seem sporadic or randomly triggered if both otherwise but sudden increases in stress or high environmental temperatures?

I'm not quite diagnosed yet, but scans show my inflammation is limited to my right side, yet sometimes i get pain from bloating all over / central & left sectors

Do you develop weird pains after you eat, heartburn or anything of the sort? A sort of lump in your stomach/bottom of your esophagus? I ask because I had stomach ulcers about this time last year, and the symptoms you described sound quite familiar. It could be that Crohn's has also manifested...

Constantly worrying about it REALLY doesn't help for sure! Ill go to measure or have my BPM checked at a blood pressure machine and the fear of it being too high will cause me to spike like crazy. It's a super weird feeling, I'm sorry your families had to endure such anxiety but it sounds like...