I know you can't answer that so don't bothering trying, I just need to vent.
I'm now 40 but when I was 13, I was diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer. Oooh, the pain of it is "burned" in my memory. A good lay down for an hour seemed to fix it when it decided to raise it's head. Fast forward to me at 26 and I had just had my one and only child and anal fissures, diarrhoea, vomiting, pain, you know the drill, haunted me for a whole year. My doctor kept saying, come back if it gets any worse. When I could no longer function and lift my weary dehydrated, vomit and diarrhea ravaged body off the bed except to run to the toilet, my good old mother stepped in and forced the doctor to DO SOMETHING. It was found to be Crohn's in the oesophagus and small bowel. It's all good for now, no complaints really, the odd toilet trip and abdominal cramping but you get used to that. I sincerely believe that the duodenal ulcer event and crohn's event were one and the same condition.
Fast forward 14 years and my 14 year old daughter has had abdominal problems for the last year.
She complains of a "rock" that sits inside her stomach, just under her rib cage. I know the "rock", I had it. She complains of it "aching". I know the ache. Every month, sometimes twice a month, she is down with what we "assume" are viruses which cause headaches, fever, vomiting and diarrhea. I don't know if the two are associated because sometimes she has the abdominal pain/burn/rock at the same time and sometimes she doesn't. Problem is, I can't get a doctor to take the matter seriously. I suggested to one doctor, that I had Crohns and maybe it was possible that she did too and that she is the same age as I was when I was first diagnosed with stomach problems.
The doctor scoffed at me and told me this wasn't likely.
I wanted to deck him and tell him to WAKE UP smart a** and take it into consideration.
I am taking her to a new doctor tomorrow and I'm going to try and arrange for a barium meal for her. She has had an ultrasound which showed no abnormalities. Her white blood count was normal. She has tested negative to H. Pylori.
In the meantime, she is home, off school, AGAIN, with abdominal pain and threatening to throw up. She is missing so much school. She will be good for a week or two and the process will repeat. What to do? Anyone? Are there any new BLOOD tests out there that I should know about so I can ask this new doctor to perform tomorrow. In the meantime, what "nausea" treatment can I give her. I'm considering buying some "phenergan", as it helps with nausea, but if anyone knows of a reason I shouldn't use that in IBD cases, let me know.
Thanks for listening :wink:
I'm now 40 but when I was 13, I was diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer. Oooh, the pain of it is "burned" in my memory. A good lay down for an hour seemed to fix it when it decided to raise it's head. Fast forward to me at 26 and I had just had my one and only child and anal fissures, diarrhoea, vomiting, pain, you know the drill, haunted me for a whole year. My doctor kept saying, come back if it gets any worse. When I could no longer function and lift my weary dehydrated, vomit and diarrhea ravaged body off the bed except to run to the toilet, my good old mother stepped in and forced the doctor to DO SOMETHING. It was found to be Crohn's in the oesophagus and small bowel. It's all good for now, no complaints really, the odd toilet trip and abdominal cramping but you get used to that. I sincerely believe that the duodenal ulcer event and crohn's event were one and the same condition.
Fast forward 14 years and my 14 year old daughter has had abdominal problems for the last year.
She complains of a "rock" that sits inside her stomach, just under her rib cage. I know the "rock", I had it. She complains of it "aching". I know the ache. Every month, sometimes twice a month, she is down with what we "assume" are viruses which cause headaches, fever, vomiting and diarrhea. I don't know if the two are associated because sometimes she has the abdominal pain/burn/rock at the same time and sometimes she doesn't. Problem is, I can't get a doctor to take the matter seriously. I suggested to one doctor, that I had Crohns and maybe it was possible that she did too and that she is the same age as I was when I was first diagnosed with stomach problems.
The doctor scoffed at me and told me this wasn't likely.
I wanted to deck him and tell him to WAKE UP smart a** and take it into consideration.
I am taking her to a new doctor tomorrow and I'm going to try and arrange for a barium meal for her. She has had an ultrasound which showed no abnormalities. Her white blood count was normal. She has tested negative to H. Pylori.
In the meantime, she is home, off school, AGAIN, with abdominal pain and threatening to throw up. She is missing so much school. She will be good for a week or two and the process will repeat. What to do? Anyone? Are there any new BLOOD tests out there that I should know about so I can ask this new doctor to perform tomorrow. In the meantime, what "nausea" treatment can I give her. I'm considering buying some "phenergan", as it helps with nausea, but if anyone knows of a reason I shouldn't use that in IBD cases, let me know.
Thanks for listening :wink:
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