Anyone else like this?

[tlc-x]

If I eat too much, I feel ever so ill. If I eat too little, I feel ever so ill. If I eat just the right amount I still feel ill, but not as bad.

I find it hard to know when i've eaten enough... I can only tell properly a few hours later when i'm in pain and how much pain - by then it's too late!

Just me or anyone else?

 

[Marx]

Hi Tasha, what I find is that with crohns it always starts off without the major crohns like symptoms and develops over years. It's better to get checked out. If you catch it early enough, it'll be easier to manage.

When it's active, usually if I eat too much I get a lot pain and blockage. However, never when I eat too little. But others on here might have the same patterns as you do.

Either way, wish you best of luck.

 

[Marx]

When I say checked out I mean colonoscopy and MRI, if you haven't already done so.

 

[tlc-x]

When I say checked out I mean colonoscopy and MRI, if you haven't already done so.

The doctors are being a pain at the moment and not being very helpful at all. I was having blood tests last year, and because they all came back fine, the doctors discharged me from hospital and said it was IBS. Me and my mum know that although I do have IBS, something more severe is going on. We're trying so hard to get a colonoscopy or MRI but the hospital are being stubborn. They will help me when i'm 10x worse than I am, and I can be in agony at times.

 

[Marx]

Been there done that! In 2007 they told me I had IBS after a few blood tests and a barium enema. Went 4 years thinking I had IBS only to have gotten much worse. I went for another consultation in July. The doctor was brilliant, had me doing colonoscopy and MRI within a month and found I actually had crohns. IBS have very similar symptoms to IBD so it's easy to misdiagnose them but try push for the tests. If youre losing weight, emphasise to them you're losing weight, doctors tend to take it more seriously then.

Having said all that, that is the NHS for you. -_-

I'm surprised they're not doing more tests what with family history. Just be persistent.

 

[Marx]

Also, one key difference between IbS and IBD is that with IBD you tend to throw up as one of your symptoms. That's normally a giveaway.