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Hello Everyone, I've been here in England for 1 year and 4 months now, living with my English husband. I've just recently been diagnosed of Crohn's disease last June 23, 2010. I could still remember when I first had the flare up. I had a chinese take-away, my favorite! I had diarrhea and vomiting. The next day, I was experiencing sever abdominal pain. It was so serious it hurts when I move, bend, cough or laugh. I thought It was just a food poisoning , so I went to my GP and he said because of the food poisoning my appendix had been affected by the bacteria and he called it Appendic colic. He gave me some antibiotics 2 take and the pain went away. I'm back to normal eating the foods I like. After 2 weeks, I had the flare up again, this time it's more serious, that I couldn't take the pain anymore, I asked my husband to take me to the hospital. I was admitted for 6 days in the hospital, they thought at first it was appendicitis but it wasn't, treated me with antibiotics and codeine to stop the pain. I had an allergic reaction to codeine that I had this Severe itching, like i was burning of itch , I couldn't take it. Anyway, I have undergone through scans and tests but they didn't see anything. The pain has gone and they let me go home, their diagnosis was it was an inflamed bowel. They let me go home, without telling me anything about the disease or what food should I avoid or anything like that.
After 2 weeks, I was back in the hospital again with the same problem. Severe abdominal pain. So I stayed in the hospital for 1 week and 4 days this time. I was on oramorph and paracetamol to stop the pain. I have also undergone colonoscopy and and several xrays and blood tests . It was such a difficultime for me, because the doctors were unsure what it is that I have. Because I am from the Philippines they thought I had tuberculosis and that made it worse coz they won't be able to treat my crohn's if i have tuberculosis. To cut the long story short, after 9 nine days of waiting the doctor has finally told me, that I have Crohn's disease and it's not curable , that I have NO tuberculosis but they have seen something on my lungs so I have to undergo bronchoscopy aswell to be sure. I will have the bronchoscopy procedure tomorrow 29th of June and hope that they find nothing serious with my lungs. I'm now on Pentasa and Elemental diet to take for 2 weeks! NO FOOD! I'm starving!!! All I could think of is FOOD! FOOD! FOOD and the FOODS i will not be able to eat anymore. I hope to learn more from this FORUM! So thankful I found it!
After 2 weeks, I was back in the hospital again with the same problem. Severe abdominal pain. So I stayed in the hospital for 1 week and 4 days this time. I was on oramorph and paracetamol to stop the pain. I have also undergone colonoscopy and and several xrays and blood tests . It was such a difficultime for me, because the doctors were unsure what it is that I have. Because I am from the Philippines they thought I had tuberculosis and that made it worse coz they won't be able to treat my crohn's if i have tuberculosis. To cut the long story short, after 9 nine days of waiting the doctor has finally told me, that I have Crohn's disease and it's not curable , that I have NO tuberculosis but they have seen something on my lungs so I have to undergo bronchoscopy aswell to be sure. I will have the bronchoscopy procedure tomorrow 29th of June and hope that they find nothing serious with my lungs. I'm now on Pentasa and Elemental diet to take for 2 weeks! NO FOOD! I'm starving!!! All I could think of is FOOD! FOOD! FOOD and the FOODS i will not be able to eat anymore. I hope to learn more from this FORUM! So thankful I found it!
(Though I am Asian American, but still!). 
