So here's a little update on me:
- Colonscopy in April 2011 - found inflammation. Biopsy done - granuloma in terminal ileum.
- Pill Cam (VCE) July - found nothing else.
My symptoms are: pain in right side goes from being lower quad to middle at my waist. Pain at left upper quad that comes and goes. Pain is stabbing and sharp to both areas. Do not want to eat as pain comes about 70% after eating. 20lbs weight loss from May.
Why am I confusing? Well my at my GI appt yesterday he said - we still don't know what is going on with you. (In May he said most likely CD). My symptoms are not D all the time. I actually need to take a laxative because I won't go for days and then it feels like it bursts out of me. The stool is soft and pencil thin and feels like it is going through a wall (if that makes sense). It is the worst pain because it goes kinda in spurts. Like it needs to pop through the wall, like my bowel is in a knot. Sorry if TMI.
So he doesn't want to start me on any crohn's meds because he isn't 100% sure it's CD. Although, a granuloma usually means CD or acute infection (and I am still having symptoms so I guess it's not an infection). I suggested to him that we try a small bowel follow through and he said you have had one, I am looking at the results here. I said that that one was from 2003 (when they diagnosed me with IBS). He was like ohhhh, yes we need to do that.
So now, I am going for a SBFT and still taking a laxative.
Does anyone else with CD get constipation and these types of symtoms?
Thanks for reading. :heart: :ysmile:
- Colonscopy in April 2011 - found inflammation. Biopsy done - granuloma in terminal ileum.
- Pill Cam (VCE) July - found nothing else.
My symptoms are: pain in right side goes from being lower quad to middle at my waist. Pain at left upper quad that comes and goes. Pain is stabbing and sharp to both areas. Do not want to eat as pain comes about 70% after eating. 20lbs weight loss from May.
Why am I confusing? Well my at my GI appt yesterday he said - we still don't know what is going on with you. (In May he said most likely CD). My symptoms are not D all the time. I actually need to take a laxative because I won't go for days and then it feels like it bursts out of me. The stool is soft and pencil thin and feels like it is going through a wall (if that makes sense). It is the worst pain because it goes kinda in spurts. Like it needs to pop through the wall, like my bowel is in a knot. Sorry if TMI.
So he doesn't want to start me on any crohn's meds because he isn't 100% sure it's CD. Although, a granuloma usually means CD or acute infection (and I am still having symptoms so I guess it's not an infection). I suggested to him that we try a small bowel follow through and he said you have had one, I am looking at the results here. I said that that one was from 2003 (when they diagnosed me with IBS). He was like ohhhh, yes we need to do that.
So now, I am going for a SBFT and still taking a laxative.
Does anyone else with CD get constipation and these types of symtoms?
Thanks for reading. :heart: :ysmile: