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just throwing a thought out for open discussion.. those of you who were diagnosed with Crohns Disease post teenage years, did you have any unusual patterns of bowel activity when you were a child?

i distinctly remember having a dislike of 'going for a poo' when i was kid, and would deliberately hold onto it as long as i could. i wonder if this changed things... if it had anything to do with the onset of Crohns later.
 
i couldn't go in public. i held it for a 13-hour plane ride once because i didn't want to walk past people to the bathroom.

that's changed quite a bit now!
 
Nope.
I did save a piece of poo when I was around 6 or so though. I put it in a cupboard in my room.
(good God - WHY did I tell people that??)
 
I was always very gassy and had countless appendicitis scares due to gas pains which led to a lot of humiliating incidents in school. It wasn't until after I left high school that I mastered ways of disguising my constant farting.
 
i cant really remember although ido remember when i was little i was sensitive to alot of food. i once ate bannanas and choclate together and it had bad results for me :(

i used to hate public toilets.. i still do although if ya have to go ya have to go!
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dingbat said:
just throwing a thought out for open discussion.. those of you who were diagnosed with Crohns Disease post teenage years, did you have any unusual patterns of bowel activity when you were a child?

i distinctly remember having a dislike of 'going for a poo' when i was kid, and would deliberately hold onto it as long as i could. i wonder if this changed things... if it had anything to do with the onset of Crohns later.
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weve been doing this in psychology at college.. you were anally retentive apparently ( as far as freud said) its due to being forced to use the potty too soon in childhood when you arnt ready :D

sorry the psychologist is coming out in me hehe :D
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I remember much of my life, and had a very standard BM/urination methodology.

Jed, you aren't a "late starter" in that sense, you can answer just like all of us, you were a child once, before Crohns. Just tell us, did you leave the 'roo pouch to go, or did you just go in the pouch and make a mess. :)
 
i'm not sure i like Mr Freud's character assumption lol


i think it was a vicious circle with me.. i'd not want to break off playing to go to the toilet, so held on, then of course the longer you hold, the harder & more painful it is to 'go'.. until it gets to the point of proper constipation. i remember having revolting mixtures, including syrup of figs. gross!
 
When I young (maybe 6 or 7) I remember going to the toilet at school. One kid went into the cubicle for a poo, and another kid peeped under the gap at the bottom of the door. Traumatised me for life and I've always tried to avoid going to public toilets and gone to great lengths to hold it in.... very ironic since I ended up with crohns!

Anally retentive? I'm saying nothing!
 
I remember in my second year at primary school (would have been 5-6yrs?) my teacher was scarey and sternly told the class no one else could ask to go to the toilet.

I was desperate and when I asked she refused. I ended up with a very flat "turd" in my drawers and came home with it!!

I always seemed to need have to go the minute I needed to go as far back as I can remember.

When I was 11 (first year at high school) I would double over in agony a couple of times a month after lunch. My dad would end up taking me to A&E but by the time I was there and vomited I felt tons better. They kept saying it was a big kids version of colic.

So between being told that and GP's telling me I had IBS I just put up with it for years until I was finally diagnosed at the ripe old age of 37 in Xmas 06 because I just couldnt cope with the running to the loo and constant pain and exhaustion.

Cest la vie...
 
:ylol2: that's the nicest way i've heard anyone tell someone else that they're "anally retentive..."
 
dingbat said:
i'm not sure i like Mr Freud's character assumption lol


i think it was a vicious circle with me.. i'd not want to break off playing to go to the toilet, so held on, then of course the longer you hold, the harder & more painful it is to 'go'.. until it gets to the point of proper constipation. i remember having revolting mixtures, including syrup of figs. gross!
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syrup of figs? my grandad always used to give me this malt stuff that would apprently ' make you go' it was horrible.

oh no i dont liek freud.. although some of what he says kind of makes sense... but kind of doesnt
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RHOV said:
:ylol2: that's the nicest way i've heard anyone tell someone else that they're "anally retentive..."
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wooah i never said Dingbat was anally retentive.. i said freud would say that :)
 
I was diagnosed at 16, but I remember having bathroom troubles before then. I can even remember messing myself a couple times in school (very un-fun).
 
RHOV said:
^^ do tell!
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Usually I turn away which positions me in a way that I'm not reverberating off of a seat or something and have a clear air flow, and then I cough really loud to cover up the sound. Then I move away quickly so that when they first smell it and look around I'm not the closest person.
 
Colt said:
Usually I turn away which positions me in a way that I'm not reverberating off of a seat or something and have a clear air flow, and then I cough really loud to cover up the sound. Then I move away quickly so that when they first smell it and look around I'm not the closest person.
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Before I was diagnosed I had no excuse for stinky farts. I was at my locker at school once and another girl was next to me opening hers. I let out a "silent killer." i could tell she smelled it, but she was too polite to say anything, so I said "Wow, something smells bad all of a sudden!" and she was like "yeah," and started fanning the air. never suspected me...

I move away too, and let other people say "OMG, what is that smell?!"

how sneaky!
 
Do they teach Freud as current Psychology, or is it just history? I was under the impression that most of what Freud did was crap.
 
Freud is taught mostly as history and as an example of the development of modern psychology. He was one of the first people to really try to organize and establish it as science, and he is one of the key founders of the idea of psychotherapy. You usually only really run into Freud in Psychology 101. Freud isn't really given credit as being correct even though you do learn his models. They're just kind of useful for a simple model from which to prepare yourself for more complex and correct ones.
 
I had excellent bowel habits before I got sick, the irony, since getting sick I've never once been in full remission my entire 17 yrs of having crohn's....

Funny you mention that Pen, apparently I too was I huge toilet flusher during my toddler yrs...guess my mom had to call the plumber a lot, and he'd dig out all kinds of my mom's things that I'd flush down there, like her makeup compact, tubes of lipstick, those floppy little records they used to have back in the 60's and any little ornaments she'd have in the bathroom for decoration and wads of TP.

My Dad was an avid photographer, he took pictures of me doing nothing and everything, he's got some shot of me sitting on the potty during my potty training days, funny thing in those pics I'm bawling my head off, it must have been the beginning of what was to come 22 yrs later.

:)
 
You guys are too funny.

I had D for as long as I can remember. I thought it was normal. I went through so many lactose intolerance tests -- that was always their conculsion, but taking away milk never solved the problem.
 
dingbat -- I was the same way as a child! I'd hold it as long as possible, and like you said, by the time I went, it was horrid constipation and hard to get out. I didn't, however, get fig syrup. Instead I got suppositories shoved up my butt! I've been wondering if that has anything to do with me now as well. Probably not though.
 

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