Hi Everybody! This is a great site. I am glad I found it just looking for a lot of answers and trying to find ways I can help my daughter.
This is about my daughter she is 15yrs old. She started taking 4-6 motrins a day for 10 days due to ankle injury. (she was allergic to motrin when she wa 6)The first time it started was when my husband made fried rice. The rice was about 3-4days old and he added a lot of spicy thai green chillies. We all ate it but my daughter started complaing of abdominal pain. Next day she had diarrhea with a lot of mucus and abdominal pain. There was no bleeding at all. Took her to the pediatrician she had blood tests done and said it may be gastroenteritis.She referred us to a ped GI. The GI ordered a blood and stool test. All the results were normal. THE ESR was elevated. The diarrhea and the pain stopped after a week. She was back to normal. On April went out with cousins and ate at a small restaurant which was not very clean. 2 cousind ended up with 2 days of diarrhea and my daughter started having the same problems diarrhea and abdominal pain. Took her back to the GI and she ordered upper GI series with barium which was normal. Then she ordered Colonoscopy with biopsies. The Dr who did the GI came to me after the procedure and told me it looks like Crohn's. I died a thousand deaths in those few seconds. He also gave us some pictures of the biopsies and she had ulcers and edema as he explained. Went to get results from the GI and the colonoscopy results were inconclusive with all the biopsies they did they could not give a definite result. The GI doctor was giving us the run around like it could be this it could be that, gave us a prescription for IBD Serology-7 blood test and started her on Entocort and Apriso. The test she ordered was as she said was to confirm a diagnosis. Went to her the following week to get the results. (She was anemic, heavy periods and bleeding due to biopsies and 7 tubes of blood drawn for the IBD 7 test.)
The IBD serology-7 test tested negative for crohn's and positive for Ulcerative colitis. Then she tells us this test is not accurate and we have to wait and watch. We were very upset. She also told us it could be nothing just inflammation. Then she says it will go away by itself after treatment. Then again it could be the beginning of IBD. We are so confused because the medication she prescribed is causing a lot of side-effects. My daughter is my heartbeat and I cannot see her suffer like this. Are there any other tests available that could give us an idea about her problems. We are also looking into getting a second opinion. I know this is long, but thanks alot for listening/reading.
This is about my daughter she is 15yrs old. She started taking 4-6 motrins a day for 10 days due to ankle injury. (she was allergic to motrin when she wa 6)The first time it started was when my husband made fried rice. The rice was about 3-4days old and he added a lot of spicy thai green chillies. We all ate it but my daughter started complaing of abdominal pain. Next day she had diarrhea with a lot of mucus and abdominal pain. There was no bleeding at all. Took her to the pediatrician she had blood tests done and said it may be gastroenteritis.She referred us to a ped GI. The GI ordered a blood and stool test. All the results were normal. THE ESR was elevated. The diarrhea and the pain stopped after a week. She was back to normal. On April went out with cousins and ate at a small restaurant which was not very clean. 2 cousind ended up with 2 days of diarrhea and my daughter started having the same problems diarrhea and abdominal pain. Took her back to the GI and she ordered upper GI series with barium which was normal. Then she ordered Colonoscopy with biopsies. The Dr who did the GI came to me after the procedure and told me it looks like Crohn's. I died a thousand deaths in those few seconds. He also gave us some pictures of the biopsies and she had ulcers and edema as he explained. Went to get results from the GI and the colonoscopy results were inconclusive with all the biopsies they did they could not give a definite result. The GI doctor was giving us the run around like it could be this it could be that, gave us a prescription for IBD Serology-7 blood test and started her on Entocort and Apriso. The test she ordered was as she said was to confirm a diagnosis. Went to her the following week to get the results. (She was anemic, heavy periods and bleeding due to biopsies and 7 tubes of blood drawn for the IBD 7 test.)
The IBD serology-7 test tested negative for crohn's and positive for Ulcerative colitis. Then she tells us this test is not accurate and we have to wait and watch. We were very upset. She also told us it could be nothing just inflammation. Then she says it will go away by itself after treatment. Then again it could be the beginning of IBD. We are so confused because the medication she prescribed is causing a lot of side-effects. My daughter is my heartbeat and I cannot see her suffer like this. Are there any other tests available that could give us an idea about her problems. We are also looking into getting a second opinion. I know this is long, but thanks alot for listening/reading.