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Hey everyone. My name's Bryce, I'm 22, and I was unofficially diagnosed with Crohn's about 2 months ago.
Since November I've been having really bad cramping and pain in my gut. Over the next four months it got much worse, so much that I had to make four or five trips to the emergency room over that period. At the end of March it got so bad that I was referred to a GI Doc who told me that I probably have Crohn's, although he couldn't be sure until I had a colonoscopy.
The doc put me on Flagyl and Cipro to keep the inflammation down, and they helped so much that I was able to go ahead with a trip to Cuba I had planned with my girlfriend at the start of May. The pain was really only unbearable for a short part of the time we were down there thankfully, but two days after I got back I landed in the emergency room again, this time staying in the hospital for ten days.
We're now up to May 12th. The doctors put me on 50mg of prednisone (more on that later) and I didn't eat anything solid for the next ten days. Over these days my stomach pains slowly went away for the first time in nearly six months, partly because of the drugs and partly because I wasn't eating anything. They decided to give me that colonoscopy since I was already in the hospital, but they had to stop partway through because, despite my improvements, I was too inflamed for them to get in without risk of causing damage.
I've been out of the hospital for a few days, back to eating solid foods but only experiencing relatively minor pain, a bit pissed off that I don't have a solid diagnosis yet and that I have to undergo another colonoscopy when I'm healthy enough to endure it. As I'm sure many of you know, it's not the procedure itself that bothers me, it's the 4 litres of shit they make you drink the day before!
So that's basically where I am now. I didn't intend for this post to be this long! I'm still taking 50mg of prednisone a day as well as the antibiotics, but my experience with it has been relatively good. I usually suffer from horrible seasonal/cat allergies and the steroid seems to have completely repressed them. Furthermore, I get huge boosts of energy that I can use to do whatever I want. On the other hand, it makes me really irritable and kind of a dick. Another negative side effect is that I'm barely sleeping, but I guess there's an upside to that too: I'm getting more done throughout the course of a day than I ever could before.
I'll post updates when I know more! It's great to have people that have gone through/are going through the same thing. I can't wait to get to know some of you and hear some of your stories!
Bryce
Since November I've been having really bad cramping and pain in my gut. Over the next four months it got much worse, so much that I had to make four or five trips to the emergency room over that period. At the end of March it got so bad that I was referred to a GI Doc who told me that I probably have Crohn's, although he couldn't be sure until I had a colonoscopy.
The doc put me on Flagyl and Cipro to keep the inflammation down, and they helped so much that I was able to go ahead with a trip to Cuba I had planned with my girlfriend at the start of May. The pain was really only unbearable for a short part of the time we were down there thankfully, but two days after I got back I landed in the emergency room again, this time staying in the hospital for ten days.
We're now up to May 12th. The doctors put me on 50mg of prednisone (more on that later) and I didn't eat anything solid for the next ten days. Over these days my stomach pains slowly went away for the first time in nearly six months, partly because of the drugs and partly because I wasn't eating anything. They decided to give me that colonoscopy since I was already in the hospital, but they had to stop partway through because, despite my improvements, I was too inflamed for them to get in without risk of causing damage.
I've been out of the hospital for a few days, back to eating solid foods but only experiencing relatively minor pain, a bit pissed off that I don't have a solid diagnosis yet and that I have to undergo another colonoscopy when I'm healthy enough to endure it. As I'm sure many of you know, it's not the procedure itself that bothers me, it's the 4 litres of shit they make you drink the day before!
So that's basically where I am now. I didn't intend for this post to be this long! I'm still taking 50mg of prednisone a day as well as the antibiotics, but my experience with it has been relatively good. I usually suffer from horrible seasonal/cat allergies and the steroid seems to have completely repressed them. Furthermore, I get huge boosts of energy that I can use to do whatever I want. On the other hand, it makes me really irritable and kind of a dick. Another negative side effect is that I'm barely sleeping, but I guess there's an upside to that too: I'm getting more done throughout the course of a day than I ever could before.
I'll post updates when I know more! It's great to have people that have gone through/are going through the same thing. I can't wait to get to know some of you and hear some of your stories!
Bryce
