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Wow, So much to learn here! I appreciate everyone's information and candid sharing of your personal experiences. I'm glad to know I'm not 'over-reacting' to all of these troubling symptoms. I did get firm with the docs NP this week and they do seem to be taking all of this very seriously and...

Catherine, Thank you! My daughter's Mesenteric lumphadenities were discovered during her colonoscopy. Did your daughter have rectal bleeding as a result? Did the patterns of bleeding increase or decrease or show any kind of pattern? I'm sorry your daughter ended up with the Crohns diagnosis...

Thanks again to everyone for advice. Good news is that daughters labs are all perfect. She currently has mesenteric lymphadenitis and her colon is flaccid and distended and not 'contracting' to push waste through. Suspicion as of today is that as matter makes it's way out of the colon empty...

Thanks everyone. @ 723crossroads No hemorroids. Child has no 'strain' with BM's. They are regular and generally loose. Type 4, but usually 5 -6 on the Bristol chart. Blood is quite significant and increasing in volume as the 'episodes' continue. On thing I forgot is that the Dr. ordered a...

Thank you, Patricia56! I am working on being prepared for a long and frustrating journey...but hopeful. The biggest concern right now are the increasing bouts of rectal bleeding and severity of the 'episodes'. I'll post again after our 'emergency' appointment on Tuesday. Again, thank you.

Thanks to everyone for the 'answers' and questions...and support! @Patricia56 1) Growth seems normal, but minimal signs of the onset of puberty. She is way behind all of her peers the same age. I am very tiny, so the growth is a hard one to determine. I'll ask about that on Tuesday. I have...

Thank you! I think the blood testing you mention was done on Friday. I will absolutely find out for sure. The GI jumped right to the colonoscopy/endoscopy based on the symptoms she presented with in April. It's troublesome that things seem to be getting worse rather than better, but from what I...

Good morning, I will start with my daughters recent history. She just turned 13. October 2011 she began to have severe pain in her ankles. I attributed the pain to her sports activities. Appearance of bug-bite like sores on her shins that worsened through April. January 2012-April 2012...