Did you get ill often while growing up (before diagnosis)?

[Gianni]

This question is referring to the years before you were diagnosed. Did you get common colds, pesky illnesses more than an average individual would?

I got colds and pesky lil infections quite often while growing up (at least twice as much as my friends).


Gianni

 

[Jennifer]

I'll have to wait on answering the poll cause I don't remember. I'll ask my mom about it tomorrow.

 

[DustyKat]

Neither of my children were sick kids.

I wouldn't be exaggerating in saying that prior to getting Crohn's symptoms I could count on the fingers one hand, for both them, the times they were ill. Both had chicken pox but even they were mild doses.

Barely a doctors visit and no antibiotics until diagnosed, so 14 and 17 years respectively. Hence the shock when they both developed Crohn's.

Dusty. xxx

 

[Ozboz]

nah i got sick with vrohns after car accident before that healthy as put on weight going to gym and everything

 

[KayleighMeek]

I was always very sick as a child and had to be monitored for weight and height as I was under for both. I think I have always had it just wasn't diagnosed when I was a child

 

[ellie]

Now this is a fascinating area of enquiry..
Baseline info - I'm now 58, diagnosed formally 2years ago. Almost certainly had Crohn's 5 years earlier ( bad iritis following a "gastro bug")
Historically,average childhood/young adult susceptibility to whatever the current virus. 2000-2005, assorted upper respiratory infections with persistent secondary sinusitis (bacterial) and repeated courses of antibiotics.
Since diagnosis, (2010)almost no "flu-like" illnesses, despite living in a household where my adult children seem to get whatever is going around, and health care professional husband meets every germ in the community as soon as it arrives.
It's almost as tho my immune system has been geared up a couple of notches by CD...?

 

[AIjen]

As a child/teenager, I was almost never sick. Actually, I was rarely sick until I got pregnant with my first child. It was after he was born that I started to be sick a lot. though I suspect I probably was starting with all the autoimmunities then. 6 months after he was born I was dx'd with hypothyroidism and it all went downhill from there. I actually have the autoimmune (Hashimoto's) hypothyroidism. I was sick all the time! Since I started the immunosuppressant, I no longer get sick very often. Weird.

 

[Ihurt]

I am not dx with crohns, I am still going through tests. But I have to say I was sick a lot growing up. When I started kindergarten I had strep throat like every month! I also got a lot of sore throats. I then got Mono when I was 13. So yeah, I was sick quite a lot growing up.....

 

[CrohnsChicago]

I was always sick, I would get colds, flus, have bloody nose issues, have dizzy/fainting spells, strep throats, bronchitis and a hip surgery around age 12 because of developmental hip dysplasia - my hip dislocated and the cartiledge in my hip joint wore out...people didn't know what to do with me. And I felt like I couldn't be a normal kid sometimes.

 

[prplkow]

I was always sick as a kid. Asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, measles, chicken pox...I had strep throat many times, tendonitis, something was always going on. Oh and endometriosis from about 18-40. I do have to also comment that strangely over the past few years I don't get the flu or colds.

 

[Nyx]

Besides the odd cold now and then, I was never sick. Even now I don't really get sick...except for the cold I'm just getting over...lol

 

[Terriernut]

Frequently ill as a child. I managed mumps twice! (both at halloween time) Ear infections, bad allergies, etc., etc.

But I never got chicken pox. But yes, I would say immune system was definetely not where it should've been. Also had childhood epilepsy. Born small, and always a small skinny child. And yes...I'm still a pygmy! (5'1", 103lbs.)

 

[Kip1]

Mumps & chickenpox but little else.

Different now :frown:

 

[SidS]

I wasn't really sick as child. I would only get sick during the winter, cold caughing running nose, but not always. But nothing else, pretty normal childhood, I only had chickenpox other than that nothing else.

 

[Wallath]

:banana::sheep::sheep::sheep::sheep:Hi..I was a sickly person growing up...with never enough energy to complete tasks...like a stop go sort of person..and the whole range of childhood sicknesses....fine one moment under the weather the next....looking back not at all pleasant...today? ..on medication thankfully..which is giving me the best of times...
keep the faith and smile:beerchug::beerchug::beerchug:

 

[afidz]

I was sick probably just as much as any other kid. Since I have been diagnosed, i have been sick (with a bug or cold) one time. for some reason, Crohns has strengthened that part of my immune system

 

[Jennifer]

Ok got the info. My mom said that I wasn't sick more often than anyone else in the family (seemed to have a normal sick schedule ).

But one thing that did happen often was I'd have issues with my sinuses and would get a lot of nose bleeds. My mom was sure I had an ulcer in my nose but the doc I had been seeing no longer accepted my insurance so nothing ever came of that (my mom said she almost broke their glass door cause she slammed it so hard ).

About a year after seeing no doctor she said that the "Texas flu" came through the area and we all got sick. My sister (the one who also has Crohn's) and I never got better and I eventually started bleeding and that's where the Crohn's story begins.

My mom thinks that I had an ulcer caused by Crohn's in my nose but it went left unchecked. She did not know about Crohn's before my diagnosis though. My sister who also has Crohn's did not have the same sinus issue though.

 

[tots]

Everything would make me throw up! (also diarrhea) Everything gave me "stomach" trouble! My mom said I had a healthy diet but, very few food choices.

Milkshakes- going out to eat. ( now I wonder if its the seasonings they used. pepper will put me in the hosp now. )
I think I was in my late teens before I could go out to eat and not get violently ill.Other than that besides being little (wt/ht) I didnt catch much!

lauren

 

[JennyT]

As a child I was regulary rushed to the Doc screamng with tummy pain - it was diagnosed as 'colic' and the awful pains in my legs as "growing pains' I also had very bad strep throat all the time and pneumonia twice as a kid. I also developed numerous allergies to drugs, in particular penicilin and became allergic to the sun. Sounds awful doesnt it, but I actually had a wonderful ourdoorsy childhood. I have wonderered if Crohns had started way back then. First undiagnosed flare (I know what it was now) was in my late twenties.

 

[kiny]

just colds really