Bowel obstruction as first or early symptom?

[mtseeg]

I'm curious how many people out there have had zero or only mild, occasional pain before suddenly faced with a bowel obstruction that led to diagnosis. From what I've read, it seems particularly out of character for Crohn's to do that level of damage before being noticed.

Or am I wrong?

I realize that everyone is different, but there does seem to be a more typical theme with Crohn's: abdominal pain after meals, bloody or loose or frequent stools, anemia, etc. But I'm wondering how common it is for someone to go from nothing or mild pain straight to a full-on bowel obstruction as their first or nearly their first symptom.

Anyone out there fit that mold?

 

[ronroush7]

Everyone is different. You also mught post this in the section under Surgery in the subsection which i tgink is called Strictures and Obstructions. I hope you feel better.

 

[eleanor_rigby]

Yes me! My first symptom was I believe a partial bowel obstruction. I woke up in the middle of the night with the awful waves of pain above my belly button. It passed and I thought it was a one off but they kept coming back. No doctor would do any testing and eventually my bowel perforated