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Hello.
My name is Neville and i live in Wales (uk) and i am 48 years old.
Not sure to start this as there is no real beginning, About six or seven years ago a started to get stomach craps on a daily basis, with this i use to also go through days where i would be feeling seriously hungry yet only after eating a few mouthfuls of food i would feel bloated and nauseated,
After a few months of this i went to the doctors and was tested for Helicobacter pylori which i was then treated for, obviously reading about H.P i wasn’t surprised when the pains came back a few weeks later and thought to myself that this is probably the start up of a stomach ulcer – no big deal so live with it and lay off the spicey foods.
This happened on and off for a year and a half and looking back at it i just found it a hindrance more than anything else and didn’t worry about it.
Then one day i received a phone call from my dad saying that he was having problems with my mother and he was at his wits end with her, after going over to there house i found my mother in bed faking that she was not in pain but obviously was and a pile of soiled clothes and bed covers,
i done no more than took her to the hospital where she become delirious and was as if she had senile dementia i.e. didn’t know who i was etc.
Well it turned out that she had diverticulitis and a serious infection of the bladder where a fistula had broken through from her intestines and into her bladder ( the infection was what made her like she had dementia ).
She had surgery to correct this but there was a complication and she ended up with peritonitis a few weeks later.
This time we were told by the hospital that it was extremely serious and that we should be prepared for the worse .
Lucky she pulled through it and made a full recovery.
Well after this she decided to more to Wales and that we ( my family) would also move to be there as required as both parents are in there 70`s.
This was five years ago and thinking back should have been a massive warning sign to me, but any ways the pains that i was getting were intermittent sometimes weeks apart sometimes days – but the pains were definatly getting stronger .
Sometimes this pain would drive me to bed for a day, usually on these episodes there would be sickness, other times a walk in the cold air was enough to shake of the feeling of being sick, each time i would thing – its only a stomach bug or indigestion or heartburn or well pretty much any thing that wasn’t serious ( if you haven’t guessed i have a huge fear of hospitals , needles etc and would happily sit there is huge amounts of pain and fob it off)
After 4 years of this, to be exact it was Wednesday 22 feb during the morning i again started to get the stomach ache and again i didn’t to anything about it, come about 18:00 i went to bed as the pain was pretty intense but what the hell –
Thursday morning i felt fine but after a hour or two again the pains come back even stronger and this time i was being sick even after swallowing saliva, come the afternoon the pain had reached the point where i was on the floor curled up grunting and panting through the pain, In the evening i asked my wife to call the doctor out, he came round and said that he thought it was pancreas infection and i would have to wait for a ambulance to take me to hospital.
Two hours passed and now the pain is indescribable – i would have happily jumped in front of a train just to stop the pain, my wife straight away called 999 and they come within 15 mins – taken to hospital plumbed into there etonox (gas and air) all the way to try and get relief from the pain,
on arriving i was now at the point where i was loosing all control of my temper shouting and kicking at doctors to stop the pain, well i was straight away put onto 4 lots of iv pain killers and was diagnosed with diverticulitis, after seeing the chief consultant he decided that it might actually be a serious food poisoning and i was put into isolation – something must of clicked with him as he then ordered me to get a ct scan and then a second one a hour later, anyways i fell asleep after.
i was then woken up by the consultant with a nurse and the door shut – strange i thought its going to be food poisoning – he said “ well Mr. tanner i have to inform you that you have a very serious case of Crohn`s disease – do you understand what this means” well me i am still high as a kite and i just shrugged it off.
The next day the consultant came back and explained it all
.... it sunk in ....
90% chance that i would have to surgery with in the next day or two due to a very serious infection in my intestines, i was put onto drip after drip of saline, antibiotics, pain killers, and a few other things that i cant even pronounce, luckily i was in the 10% and managed to recover without the surgery.
I came home on Monday and i have been put on METRONIDAZOLE (2 weeks) , PREDNISOLONE (2 months) , ASACOL (for ever), TRAMADOL (pain relief) until it all settles down then it will be what ever the specialist says when i get to see her (she will not get any arguments no matter how many needles i have to have).
Since then i have been reading everything i can find, i have started a diary where i record everything that goes into my mouth, have become ultra careful not to get a upset stomach, and try to stop my wife and kids from panicking every time i get a bit of pain.
Already realise coffee is not good and neither are a few other things so the diary is paying off already.
One thing i would like to say .. don’t self diagnose a pain – get it checked out !
My name is Neville and i live in Wales (uk) and i am 48 years old.
Not sure to start this as there is no real beginning, About six or seven years ago a started to get stomach craps on a daily basis, with this i use to also go through days where i would be feeling seriously hungry yet only after eating a few mouthfuls of food i would feel bloated and nauseated,
After a few months of this i went to the doctors and was tested for Helicobacter pylori which i was then treated for, obviously reading about H.P i wasn’t surprised when the pains came back a few weeks later and thought to myself that this is probably the start up of a stomach ulcer – no big deal so live with it and lay off the spicey foods.
This happened on and off for a year and a half and looking back at it i just found it a hindrance more than anything else and didn’t worry about it.
Then one day i received a phone call from my dad saying that he was having problems with my mother and he was at his wits end with her, after going over to there house i found my mother in bed faking that she was not in pain but obviously was and a pile of soiled clothes and bed covers,
i done no more than took her to the hospital where she become delirious and was as if she had senile dementia i.e. didn’t know who i was etc.
Well it turned out that she had diverticulitis and a serious infection of the bladder where a fistula had broken through from her intestines and into her bladder ( the infection was what made her like she had dementia ).
She had surgery to correct this but there was a complication and she ended up with peritonitis a few weeks later.
This time we were told by the hospital that it was extremely serious and that we should be prepared for the worse .
Lucky she pulled through it and made a full recovery.
Well after this she decided to more to Wales and that we ( my family) would also move to be there as required as both parents are in there 70`s.
This was five years ago and thinking back should have been a massive warning sign to me, but any ways the pains that i was getting were intermittent sometimes weeks apart sometimes days – but the pains were definatly getting stronger .
Sometimes this pain would drive me to bed for a day, usually on these episodes there would be sickness, other times a walk in the cold air was enough to shake of the feeling of being sick, each time i would thing – its only a stomach bug or indigestion or heartburn or well pretty much any thing that wasn’t serious ( if you haven’t guessed i have a huge fear of hospitals , needles etc and would happily sit there is huge amounts of pain and fob it off)
After 4 years of this, to be exact it was Wednesday 22 feb during the morning i again started to get the stomach ache and again i didn’t to anything about it, come about 18:00 i went to bed as the pain was pretty intense but what the hell –
Thursday morning i felt fine but after a hour or two again the pains come back even stronger and this time i was being sick even after swallowing saliva, come the afternoon the pain had reached the point where i was on the floor curled up grunting and panting through the pain, In the evening i asked my wife to call the doctor out, he came round and said that he thought it was pancreas infection and i would have to wait for a ambulance to take me to hospital.
Two hours passed and now the pain is indescribable – i would have happily jumped in front of a train just to stop the pain, my wife straight away called 999 and they come within 15 mins – taken to hospital plumbed into there etonox (gas and air) all the way to try and get relief from the pain,
on arriving i was now at the point where i was loosing all control of my temper shouting and kicking at doctors to stop the pain, well i was straight away put onto 4 lots of iv pain killers and was diagnosed with diverticulitis, after seeing the chief consultant he decided that it might actually be a serious food poisoning and i was put into isolation – something must of clicked with him as he then ordered me to get a ct scan and then a second one a hour later, anyways i fell asleep after.
i was then woken up by the consultant with a nurse and the door shut – strange i thought its going to be food poisoning – he said “ well Mr. tanner i have to inform you that you have a very serious case of Crohn`s disease – do you understand what this means” well me i am still high as a kite and i just shrugged it off.
The next day the consultant came back and explained it all
.... it sunk in ....
90% chance that i would have to surgery with in the next day or two due to a very serious infection in my intestines, i was put onto drip after drip of saline, antibiotics, pain killers, and a few other things that i cant even pronounce, luckily i was in the 10% and managed to recover without the surgery.
I came home on Monday and i have been put on METRONIDAZOLE (2 weeks) , PREDNISOLONE (2 months) , ASACOL (for ever), TRAMADOL (pain relief) until it all settles down then it will be what ever the specialist says when i get to see her (she will not get any arguments no matter how many needles i have to have).
Since then i have been reading everything i can find, i have started a diary where i record everything that goes into my mouth, have become ultra careful not to get a upset stomach, and try to stop my wife and kids from panicking every time i get a bit of pain.
Already realise coffee is not good and neither are a few other things so the diary is paying off already.
One thing i would like to say .. don’t self diagnose a pain – get it checked out !
I am pleased to see that you are keepng a food diary, definetly check out our diet and sups forum to get ideas on what else to look at. 
