Hello any and all sufferers of tummy illnesses~ I'm a 17 year old who enjoys long walks on the beach, sushi, and not being in the hospital, thank you very much! I've always had problems with digestion. My parents thought the reason I had diarrhea so often was just me being a nervous nilly. I discovered last month that this is not so. I'd never really taken my tummy pains very seriously until I developed a rather painful anal fissure (if you'd told me a year ago that I'd be typing something like this on a public site-- I'd probably just giggle because you said "anal"...) that wouldn't get lost. So, went to the doctor and found out it was filled with some not so good things, so, off to surgery I went. I was absolutely mortified. I'd never even been in a hospital before, let alone for a surgery of any kind. I was a wonder-child. Never thrown up in my life, never gotten sick aside from the odd cold or two every few years. Now, I was sitting in a cold examination room, stripped from the waist down, mentally preparing myself to let a burly male nurse stick his fingers in some not-so-casual places. Well, the procedure went fine. They found that a large hole was present in the inner wall of my large intestine. It was described as looking like an ice cream scooper told a bit out of it. They thought it was strange, but didn't see a need to follow it up with any testing. I was given a lovely cream and sent on my merry way. A few weeks later, my mother finds me delirious, ranting about pine trees on the couch with a fever of 104. After my mother demonstrated her rather colorful vocabulary, I was driven to the hospital. It had not quite healed like they'd hoped. I wasn't given an antibiotic after my procedure and it seemed to have had unforeseen consequences. I spend three days in the hospital after having it drained again. The number count for people who'd stuck their gloved fingers up my bum was now higher than dates I'd ever been on... I was then given a colonoscopy.I will never be able to eat anything orange flavored again-- colon cleanser is the absolute worst. The results were okay, they couldn't find much irritation in the large intestine, but the end of the small intestine was all kind of wrong. They then said they needed to give me an MRI to look at my small intestine. The results of that showed that I have one of the worst cases of Crohn's in my small intestine that my doctor has ever seen in person. She advised I get 45cm taken out of it. Just chopped away. My poor little small intestine-- I could never part with it-- I'd like to think we've grown rather close over the years. My butt-doc (as I've fondly named her) decided she wasn't ready to start chopping quite yet, so I'm starting Humira in a few days. I'm nervous, to be honest. I'm just trying to get this under control before college in fall.
So, um, hello! Geez, I hope I did this right.
So, um, hello! Geez, I hope I did this right.