First signs and symptoms of Crohn's Disease

[AlexD]

At present, I am still undiagnosed. However, my doctor thinks that I have Crohn's disease. I'm curious what everyone's first signs and symptoms were that you now attribute to your Crohn's Disease?

I appreciate and eagerly await your replies.

 

[Earnellzwifey]

Mine was the non-stop D's.

 

[Catherine]

Sarah first sign was anemia.

 

[tots]

CRAMPING and diarrhea!!


lauren

 

[soretum]

bloating big time! And passing mucous....then the floodgates opened ;/

 

[Jennifer]

Seemed like I had a flu that lasted for months with body aches, joint pain, abdominal cramping, diarrhea and some vomiting but not often. The real kicker is when I went to the bathroom and saw a toilet full of blood. Not everyone has bleeding though.

 

[upsetmom]

My daughter had lots of headaches for months. Then started the fever, diarrhea and abdominal pain.

 

[Lil Beak]

I had recurring diarrhea with no ther symptoms that would last about 2 weeks and then like clock work reappear every 2 months for another 2 weeks each time. This went on for a year before I finally got a 4-day straight high fever and flu like symptoms plus blood to accompany the diarrhea. I never got or get pain though, and I consider myself very lucky for that.

I was severely dehydrated, went to ER, and when they asked me about the symptoms over the last year they began to mention crohns. I had a colonoscopy the next day and an inflammation level blood test. Both came back indicative of crohns. Biopsies taken in the colonoscopy confirmed it, as well as the Prometheus blood test I did last week.

Hope this helps

 

[janruss]

Horrible cramping, vomiting, diarrhea and weight loss

 

[Niklovely]

8-10 bloody, pussy, painful and urgent bowel movements everyday
-horrible stomach cramps
-weight loss, about 40 lbs
-dehydration
-nausea/vomiting

Colonoscopy revealed UC but a CAT revealed narrowing in two sections of my small instestine which led the doctors to believe I had Crohn's

-anemia, but wasn't revealed until after Crohn's diagnosis

Hope you find a diagnosis!

 

[Shirl]

Mild cramping at first which felt like my period was about to start. Then the pain escalated and the constipation started

 

[Tina80]

All my first symptoms were perianal abscess and fistulas. It took a few years for the diarrhea to start and for the disease to show up in my small bowel. I think this is why it took 5 years to diagnose me.

 

[gracifer]

Horrendous stomach pain / cramping
Vomiting
Loosing weight
High esr
anemia

 

[persephone300]

Not being able to leave the house, or going far without needing the loo...up to 10 times a day, no blood, nor pain at that time. Just constant needing to use the loo and anxiety with it.

 

[Cross-stitch gal]

Mine started out as Ulcerative Colitis. At that time I had rectal bleeding and was brought into the office immediately to be checked out. But, after having a flare for so long & not being treated for it well enough, my diagnosis changed to Crohn's. My symptoms have lately been:

Weight Loss, Diarrhea/stool with blood, dripping blood, stool with mucus, stomach pain & nausea after eating.

 

[rxgirl]

Off and on bouts of abdominal pain and diarrhea for years that I always dismissed more than I should have. Then right upper quadrant abdominal pain, weight loss, low grade fever, joint pain, and night sweats for about 6 months...my disease defining event was a DVT/blood clot in my leg which landed me in the hospital. My GI says this was my body's way of saying "too much". Many test later, I am diagnosed with Crohn's and on Cimzia with LDN.

 

[AIjen]

I never had any symptoms, which is why I was totally knocked off my seat when I found out. I was just having a routine "you had a colonoscopy 5 years ago, so it's time for another one". I bet I asked my hubby, "Did he say I had Crohn's Disease?" a thousand times on our way home from that colonoscopy. I'm sure you're all familiar with the forgetfulness after a colonoscopy. I was in complete shock. I still really don't have any symptoms.

 

[Beach bum]

Night sweats and pain, which at first seemed more Gynaecological, but eventually changed to pain when ever I ate.
Second stage was weight loss and anaemia.

 

[Bld]

I had diarrhoea for a long time and didn't do anything about it. I only went to the GP when I had severe abdominal pain I thought might be appendicitis. My ESR was through the roof so I got an emergency referral to a GI who diagnosed Crohn's.

 

[SugarberryGA]

Right before I was diagnosed at age 23, I was having chronic diarrhea and cramping for three months straight. I couldn't eat or drink anything without it immediately coming back out the other end. By the time I went to see a doctor about it, my skin was very sallow-looking and I was so tired, I couldn't put one foot in front of the other. As a small child, I had had lots of tummy aches and painful BM's. The doctors always told my parents I had a "nervous stomach." Not!!

Hope you feel better and get a diagnosis soon.