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first time major flair up.
Hi folks,
I am fairly new to this forum, but I am glad I have joined and I am glad that I have this support at this time.
For the past 2 weeks I haven't been feeling well. I though it was a stomach bug because my boyfriend who does not have crohn's had similar symptoms. One day out of no where, we had to run to the bathroom. And it was pure liquid. Then every day after that it was hard to go to the bathroom. As he would call it - every day after was "unsatisfying!" We would feel like we had to go but then only a little came out or squirted out. And then on May 11th my boyfriend had to run to the bathroom and everything that was stuck int here came out. I was hopeful that like other days I would follow this path.
Instead about 4 hours later I began to have horrible pains in my lower abdomen. This got increasingly worse at the night went on (didn't fall asleep until 6 am) I couldn't walk. I had to take it literally a step at a time, very slowly because each step hurt my stomach.
I woke up for good at 9am... with only sleeping about 20 minutes at a time before I had to roll over and in between sobs from the pain. That morning I had my boyfriend take me to Urgent Care and they sent me to the hospital. I had a Cat scan and it showed unbelievable swelling in my small intestine. Along with that was backed up stool. Once they got my pain meds I felt fine. Along with a great amount of steroids I thought for sure I would be going home. However, I have never ever had a flair up like this. I have only had minor ones that come and go on their own.
So I was admitted into the hospital May 12 and have been here ever since. Today they said that they found some sort of infection in my blood that they took on the 12th. So even if my intestines get better they need to keep me because of the infection. I can no longer have a roommate and anyone to enters needs to wear special gown and gloves the entire time. They are worried that I came here with a staph infection. They are growing the samples to find out what I have. It is so frustrating and sad. I am in Ohio with my boyfriend and my mommy and family are in NY, so I have no one to be with me during the night. My boyfriend is here from the moment be wakes up until he has to leave.... but I feel like being so sad about this isn't going to help me.
My boyfriend is going threw a lot before this happened to me. He lost his father to cancer 2 years ago and now his mom has cancer. On friday he had to choose to be with her after her chemo or be by my bedside. I feel so horrible about what he has to go through. I don't know how or what to do to cheer him up and let him know I will be ok. I can't guarantee when I will be better but I know I will be.
I tried my best to stay out of the hospital, but I think I made the right choice since I have never been through this before, I wouldn't know what to look out for or how to take care of it. I know this just kind of thrown at you all. But I am lost about how to help my boyfriend while helping myself. Any advice or words of wisdom would be appreciated
thanks,
Katie
Hi folks,
I am fairly new to this forum, but I am glad I have joined and I am glad that I have this support at this time.
For the past 2 weeks I haven't been feeling well. I though it was a stomach bug because my boyfriend who does not have crohn's had similar symptoms. One day out of no where, we had to run to the bathroom. And it was pure liquid. Then every day after that it was hard to go to the bathroom. As he would call it - every day after was "unsatisfying!" We would feel like we had to go but then only a little came out or squirted out. And then on May 11th my boyfriend had to run to the bathroom and everything that was stuck int here came out. I was hopeful that like other days I would follow this path.
Instead about 4 hours later I began to have horrible pains in my lower abdomen. This got increasingly worse at the night went on (didn't fall asleep until 6 am) I couldn't walk. I had to take it literally a step at a time, very slowly because each step hurt my stomach.
I woke up for good at 9am... with only sleeping about 20 minutes at a time before I had to roll over and in between sobs from the pain. That morning I had my boyfriend take me to Urgent Care and they sent me to the hospital. I had a Cat scan and it showed unbelievable swelling in my small intestine. Along with that was backed up stool. Once they got my pain meds I felt fine. Along with a great amount of steroids I thought for sure I would be going home. However, I have never ever had a flair up like this. I have only had minor ones that come and go on their own.
So I was admitted into the hospital May 12 and have been here ever since. Today they said that they found some sort of infection in my blood that they took on the 12th. So even if my intestines get better they need to keep me because of the infection. I can no longer have a roommate and anyone to enters needs to wear special gown and gloves the entire time. They are worried that I came here with a staph infection. They are growing the samples to find out what I have. It is so frustrating and sad. I am in Ohio with my boyfriend and my mommy and family are in NY, so I have no one to be with me during the night. My boyfriend is here from the moment be wakes up until he has to leave.... but I feel like being so sad about this isn't going to help me.
My boyfriend is going threw a lot before this happened to me. He lost his father to cancer 2 years ago and now his mom has cancer. On friday he had to choose to be with her after her chemo or be by my bedside. I feel so horrible about what he has to go through. I don't know how or what to do to cheer him up and let him know I will be ok. I can't guarantee when I will be better but I know I will be.
I tried my best to stay out of the hospital, but I think I made the right choice since I have never been through this before, I wouldn't know what to look out for or how to take care of it. I know this just kind of thrown at you all. But I am lost about how to help my boyfriend while helping myself. Any advice or words of wisdom would be appreciated
thanks,
Katie
