Hello, my names Jem, I'm 27 and have been suffering for the past ten months with constant diarrhoea, vomiting and severe abdominal pains, I was 11 st 2 years ago and now am just under 9 st, weight started to really drop off over last year or so, at 5'' 8 I cant afford to lose much more. In feb 2012 was told I had gastroenteritis was prescribed mebeverine which helped with the spasms but I had promotion and exams for work (in the financial industry) so just battled through till things got really bad in oct 2012, nearly fainting all the time, low energy ect ect, couldn't keep food down struggled to even chew it, anxiety crept in to make things worse. Doc signed me off with nervous exhaustion then after 2 weeks went back to work but by the Friday I was washed out again. Back to the docs this time he says from my symptoms he suspects IBD, I have also got another condition called erythema nodosum (very painful and unsightly rash all over my legs) I was diagnosed with that when I was about 15, down to a streptococcal infection in my throat I was told. Anyway sorry this is long... Docs examines me says I have tenderness in right iliac fossa and refers me for the colonoscopy, good grief that was not a nice experience at all!!! Couldn't get a proper look at the TI, but large bowel seemed ok, they took 5 biopsies but haven't had the results yet, I got signed off again for 8 weeks beginning of dec and due back on 29th jan. I'm scared this is going to take forever to sort out and its starting to get me down, I left my boyfriend I'd been living with for 5 years just before Xmas as he wasn't supporting me and let me run him around in the car and cook and clean, wash and iron ect ect, got to the point I thought I'm dying so I bolted to my mums house, she was so shocked at the sight of me she took me up to the hospital, nearly got admitted as badly malnourished and dehydrated but doc gave me a 'drip in a bag' as he put it as it was a Friday night and he said nothing would happen till Monday I'd be more comfortable at my mums place. Well here I am at quarter to six in the morning crying because I'm in pain, just got over another vomiting bout 1 day ago that lasted 12 hrs straight and have a cold to top it all off!! My sister weighed me on her wii fit thing tonight and it said my bmi was 16.14 and I'm 7st 8 which scares me more, just need to know there is someone out the who knows what it's like, I feel like I'm falling to pieces and just waiting around for my next consultant app which is 5th feb, first I'm an urgent referral then I wait for ages for a letter that doesn't come so I ring up and say I'll take a cancellation then I'm told I'm routine on their system??!! Don't know what the hell is wrong with me, just want to feel healthy and normal again so I can go back to my work, any advice would be very much appreciated, thanks for taking the time to read this.
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Do you have a good blender?
4 ripe bananna (brown spots)
1 tbsp of peanut butter (no sugar) salt ok
1/4 cup of Dry Curd Cheese (Farmers Cheese)
3 seconds of squirting honey
1/2 cup of ice
* this has a lot of nutrition and should be easy on your stamach. Loaded with good calories
Eat as many ripe bananna as you possibly can. Bananna are very good for you and loaded with good calories. My son has been doing the SCD diet and this is one of the things I give him twice a day.
4 ripe bananna (brown spots)
1 tbsp of peanut butter (no sugar) salt ok
1/4 cup of Dry Curd Cheese (Farmers Cheese)
3 seconds of squirting honey
1/2 cup of ice
* this has a lot of nutrition and should be easy on your stamach. Loaded with good calories
Eat as many ripe bananna as you possibly can. Bananna are very good for you and loaded with good calories. My son has been doing the SCD diet and this is one of the things I give him twice a day.
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Hi, Jem!
I'm really sorry to hear what you've been dealing with. Sounds like you've just about had all you can handle!
Just to clarify, you have not been diagnosed with IBD yet, correct? Erythema nodosum can actually be connected to IBD, so that's definitely interesting. How long have you had that? You can click the words in your original post to read the forum wiki entry on it. I did a search for you and found this (a basic overview of erythema nodosum and it's relation to IBD): http://ibdcrohns.about.com/od/relatedconditions/a/erythemanodosum.htm
Are there any more tests lined up, or are you waiting for the biopsy results now? Hopefully you can get everything sorted out soon and get treatment for whatever the problem is.
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I'm really sorry to hear what you've been dealing with. Sounds like you've just about had all you can handle!
Just to clarify, you have not been diagnosed with IBD yet, correct? Erythema nodosum can actually be connected to IBD, so that's definitely interesting. How long have you had that? You can click the words in your original post to read the forum wiki entry on it. I did a search for you and found this (a basic overview of erythema nodosum and it's relation to IBD): http://ibdcrohns.about.com/od/relatedconditions/a/erythemanodosum.htm
Are there any more tests lined up, or are you waiting for the biopsy results now? Hopefully you can get everything sorted out soon and get treatment for whatever the problem is.
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Thank you mvond5! That sounds quite yummy too, I will try it out!
Also thank you so much Sarahbear, your help is much appreciated as well as the link, no your right I am waiting for a diagnosis, i've had the erythema since i was 15, its chronic, comes and goes depending how long i've been on my feet and what i've been doing. I am waiting for my results from the colonoscopy, my gastro doctor said he'd do that first and if that doesn't show anything then i need to have an endoscopy next, he believes it is linked to my erythema, I have had lots of bloods done (7 lots now I think) and it keeps showing inflammatory signs, waiting on results of stool sample too, one thing as well is my food seems to be undigested, when I go to the loo i can identify most of what i've eaten, also when i'm sick my food is equally untouched or broken down, dunno what thats all about - any ideas?? at the mo i'm taking sulphasalizine, buccastem and amiltriptyline and loperamide
Also thank you so much Sarahbear, your help is much appreciated as well as the link, no your right I am waiting for a diagnosis, i've had the erythema since i was 15, its chronic, comes and goes depending how long i've been on my feet and what i've been doing. I am waiting for my results from the colonoscopy, my gastro doctor said he'd do that first and if that doesn't show anything then i need to have an endoscopy next, he believes it is linked to my erythema, I have had lots of bloods done (7 lots now I think) and it keeps showing inflammatory signs, waiting on results of stool sample too, one thing as well is my food seems to be undigested, when I go to the loo i can identify most of what i've eaten, also when i'm sick my food is equally untouched or broken down, dunno what thats all about - any ideas?? at the mo i'm taking sulphasalizine, buccastem and amiltriptyline and loperamide
