Ive come across this website many times when I had questions about my health and its been really interesting to see just how many things are attributable to my Crohn's Disease. I thought id join and share my own story, but I seem to have had a much easier time than some of you!
Now 21, I was diagnosed in 2007 aged 15. About a year before that it all started, at first they had no idea what was wrong with me, my main symptoms were tiredness, all the time, I would get home from school and just sleep. I would occasionally have bleeding from behind when I went to the loo, but not always. My mother took me to my GP who decided I had Iron Deficiency Anaemia and gave me iron supplements to take. That really made it worse, I have never had such terrible abdominal pains in all my life! In the end the pain became so bad I went to A&E and I was admitted at first to my local hospital in Wales, where they did a Barium X-ray study, and then to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. I remember my time at alder hey very fondly, they go out of their way to make it nice for kids, even though I was almost 15 at the time!
They did a colonoscopy and a gastroscopy and it found I had granulomas consistent with Illeo-caecal Crohn's. They started me on Modulen IBD, which I remained on for 6 weeks, a no solid food diet. I eventually started taking Azathioprine 100mg a day too. This put me in complete clinical remission, and I have more or less been fine since. I occasionally have abdominal pain and I have had two more episodes of my 6 week Modulen diet, but everything else has been fine! I consider myself very lucky to not need to be on any medication at the moment
I guess you could say I found it quite interesting at the time, and so did science A-Levels and I'm now a third year Medical Student at Liverpool University, ironically currently on placement at the same children's hospital where I was diagnosed... very nostalgic indeed!
So in conclusion I look forward to getting involved with the forum, I think its such a fantastic idea that like minded people can share experiences
Now 21, I was diagnosed in 2007 aged 15. About a year before that it all started, at first they had no idea what was wrong with me, my main symptoms were tiredness, all the time, I would get home from school and just sleep. I would occasionally have bleeding from behind when I went to the loo, but not always. My mother took me to my GP who decided I had Iron Deficiency Anaemia and gave me iron supplements to take. That really made it worse, I have never had such terrible abdominal pains in all my life! In the end the pain became so bad I went to A&E and I was admitted at first to my local hospital in Wales, where they did a Barium X-ray study, and then to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. I remember my time at alder hey very fondly, they go out of their way to make it nice for kids, even though I was almost 15 at the time!
They did a colonoscopy and a gastroscopy and it found I had granulomas consistent with Illeo-caecal Crohn's. They started me on Modulen IBD, which I remained on for 6 weeks, a no solid food diet. I eventually started taking Azathioprine 100mg a day too. This put me in complete clinical remission, and I have more or less been fine since. I occasionally have abdominal pain and I have had two more episodes of my 6 week Modulen diet, but everything else has been fine! I consider myself very lucky to not need to be on any medication at the moment
I guess you could say I found it quite interesting at the time, and so did science A-Levels and I'm now a third year Medical Student at Liverpool University, ironically currently on placement at the same children's hospital where I was diagnosed... very nostalgic indeed!
So in conclusion I look forward to getting involved with the forum, I think its such a fantastic idea that like minded people can share experiences
