Hi guys
I'm Lulu, I'm 26, I'm almost a doctor myself (hopefully in 6 weeks) and I was diagnosed with Crohn's in september, largely on some non specific signs and my gastro's clinical suspicion.
I don't tend to have long flare ups like most patients, instead i get flares that last 2-3 days max, with the most incredible abdo pain and obv loose stools often with blood and often the pain makes me vomit. I lost a lot of weight with the crohn's before I was diagnosed, but since I was started on mesalazine I've found my symptoms to be much less and I've put my weight back on.
I guess I'm here for support and to try and find other unusual cases like mine, I'm currently in the middle of the worst flare of the disease I've had, indeed it's the only flare I've ever had that's caused my CRP to raise.... and oddly my ALT also (which consultants have said can also be an inflammatory marker although I've never heard of this and a recent literature search churned up nothing!).
I've found this forum now because this recent flare is occurring as I'm sitting my medical finals to finally qualify as a doctor, and I'm at the end of my tether with it! I sat 2 exams last week with a proximal bowel obstruction before being admitted to hospital and having to sit another exam as an inpatient (med school is next door to the hospital and the drs very kindly let me leave to sit the exam and return to the ward when it was over). I'm really just completely depressed at the moment, I have another 2 exams this week and although I've persuaded doctors to let me home to revise, I'm still very unwell with my symptoms currently (although my symptoms are now the opposite to crohns as I took an overdose of loperamide [immodium] and some codeine when my crohns flared just before my first exam and I managed to obstruct myself for 24 hours! So now Im trying to pass everything thru my system with little success and Im in an horrendous amount of pain).
So sorry for the rant and possibly even a little too much information, I just feel currently like I have nowhere to turn at all.
I'm just hoping to find someone else who has an unusual presentation of their crohn's like me.
Thanks
L xx
I'm Lulu, I'm 26, I'm almost a doctor myself (hopefully in 6 weeks) and I was diagnosed with Crohn's in september, largely on some non specific signs and my gastro's clinical suspicion.
I don't tend to have long flare ups like most patients, instead i get flares that last 2-3 days max, with the most incredible abdo pain and obv loose stools often with blood and often the pain makes me vomit. I lost a lot of weight with the crohn's before I was diagnosed, but since I was started on mesalazine I've found my symptoms to be much less and I've put my weight back on.
I guess I'm here for support and to try and find other unusual cases like mine, I'm currently in the middle of the worst flare of the disease I've had, indeed it's the only flare I've ever had that's caused my CRP to raise.... and oddly my ALT also (which consultants have said can also be an inflammatory marker although I've never heard of this and a recent literature search churned up nothing!).
I've found this forum now because this recent flare is occurring as I'm sitting my medical finals to finally qualify as a doctor, and I'm at the end of my tether with it! I sat 2 exams last week with a proximal bowel obstruction before being admitted to hospital and having to sit another exam as an inpatient (med school is next door to the hospital and the drs very kindly let me leave to sit the exam and return to the ward when it was over). I'm really just completely depressed at the moment, I have another 2 exams this week and although I've persuaded doctors to let me home to revise, I'm still very unwell with my symptoms currently (although my symptoms are now the opposite to crohns as I took an overdose of loperamide [immodium] and some codeine when my crohns flared just before my first exam and I managed to obstruct myself for 24 hours! So now Im trying to pass everything thru my system with little success and Im in an horrendous amount of pain).
So sorry for the rant and possibly even a little too much information, I just feel currently like I have nowhere to turn at all.
I'm just hoping to find someone else who has an unusual presentation of their crohn's like me.
Thanks
L xx