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I guess I technically count as undiagnosed. I'm in my mid-20s, male, with an appropriate weight and high fitness. In 2010 I had appendicitis and had the little bugger removed. It turned out to be highly abnormal (in the pictures it was about 3x the normal size and highly irregular. Pathology reported that the weirdness was crypt abscess formations, and the surgeon and the pathologist both said this was a likely diagnosis of Crohn's. Apart from the occasional night spent on the toilet, I'd not had any major symptoms before this so my old primary care doc (ugh) decided that it was nothing and no follow up should be done. Since I was asymptomatic I was OK with that. I began having some pelvic pain in 2011, which my doc suspected was a hernia. Ultrasound was clear except for mild lymph node swelling in the area.
Fast forward to 2012. I begin having worse pelvic pain (groin/inguinal/perenial), painful pooping, some abdominal pain, and loose stools,. Sometimes it's wet sand, other times outright diarrhea, still other times just loose oily blah. No normal days. My (now different) primary doc mocked me when I suggested this might be the Crohn's causing problems. He grudgingly tried to send me for an abdominal/pelvic CT, which I declined because it's a huge dose of radiation for what amounts to a fishing expedition. He basically shrugs and won't help beyond that because my blood counts are normal. And that's where we are today. My doc doesn't care and I can't do anything short of paying out of pocket to see someone else.
I ended up at this forum when Googling information on a liquid diet, because at this point I'm willing to try anything to feel better. So hello!
I guess I technically count as undiagnosed. I'm in my mid-20s, male, with an appropriate weight and high fitness. In 2010 I had appendicitis and had the little bugger removed. It turned out to be highly abnormal (in the pictures it was about 3x the normal size and highly irregular. Pathology reported that the weirdness was crypt abscess formations, and the surgeon and the pathologist both said this was a likely diagnosis of Crohn's. Apart from the occasional night spent on the toilet, I'd not had any major symptoms before this so my old primary care doc (ugh) decided that it was nothing and no follow up should be done. Since I was asymptomatic I was OK with that. I began having some pelvic pain in 2011, which my doc suspected was a hernia. Ultrasound was clear except for mild lymph node swelling in the area.
Fast forward to 2012. I begin having worse pelvic pain (groin/inguinal/perenial), painful pooping, some abdominal pain, and loose stools,. Sometimes it's wet sand, other times outright diarrhea, still other times just loose oily blah. No normal days. My (now different) primary doc mocked me when I suggested this might be the Crohn's causing problems. He grudgingly tried to send me for an abdominal/pelvic CT, which I declined because it's a huge dose of radiation for what amounts to a fishing expedition. He basically shrugs and won't help beyond that because my blood counts are normal. And that's where we are today. My doc doesn't care and I can't do anything short of paying out of pocket to see someone else.
I ended up at this forum when Googling information on a liquid diet, because at this point I'm willing to try anything to feel better. So hello!
