Hello everyone,
Just a newbie here saying Hi! From London, England!
Well I got diagnosed a couple months back now, I think February, I can't remember all too well haha! And since then have been back and forth seeing the consultant who's so far had me only on Prednisolone (on and off) and Pentasa which honestly makes me feel really lucky. I feel like a bit of a cheater here as my symptoms aren't nearly as bad as what I've read from other users and I'm glad to see everyone's getting through this. You're all incredibly strong and it's nice to see such a friendly community. I've been experiencing the symptoms for roughly a year, possibly longer, mainly being blood and stomach pains, but I've sort of got used to it so I don't really know what's what anymore haha! But began the process of being diagnosed in December, having blood tests done, stool samples, MRI (first one ever!), X-Ray (second one ever!) and a colonoscopy that I was really dreading (first one ever again!), but really wasn't as bad as I had made myself believe to be beforehand. So a couple months and a bunch of tests later I'm told I have Crohn's in two places in my small intestine and fortunately only being small areas affected. Now when I was diagnosed I really didn't react at all, you'd almost think I didn't care as I took the news and I guess still take it very well and just get on with my life, almost relieved that I now know what the cause of my tiredness, weight loss, stomach and joint pains etc. are and that I can do something to help manage all of it.
The only thing that really does worry me though is what's in store for me in the future as I'm 21 years old and still have a heck of a lot of years (hopefully haha!) left to deal with this and I'm still pretty unsure of the best way to go about it. I take my medicine without fail every day like my life depended on that one dose each time and just go about my day studying for my exams. I still eat terribly and I know I really need to stop but it's so hard! Trying to gain weight eating healthy food is incredibly difficult and I'm such a fussy eater it makes it 10x harder! I'm my own worst enemy ha!
I don't really know where I'm going with this, just putting myself out there I guess, hopefully I'll get to know some of you better and over the coming weeks, months and years be able to help out any newbies that are in the position I'm in now
Thanks for reading!
Just a newbie here saying Hi! From London, England!
Well I got diagnosed a couple months back now, I think February, I can't remember all too well haha! And since then have been back and forth seeing the consultant who's so far had me only on Prednisolone (on and off) and Pentasa which honestly makes me feel really lucky. I feel like a bit of a cheater here as my symptoms aren't nearly as bad as what I've read from other users and I'm glad to see everyone's getting through this. You're all incredibly strong and it's nice to see such a friendly community. I've been experiencing the symptoms for roughly a year, possibly longer, mainly being blood and stomach pains, but I've sort of got used to it so I don't really know what's what anymore haha! But began the process of being diagnosed in December, having blood tests done, stool samples, MRI (first one ever!), X-Ray (second one ever!) and a colonoscopy that I was really dreading (first one ever again!), but really wasn't as bad as I had made myself believe to be beforehand. So a couple months and a bunch of tests later I'm told I have Crohn's in two places in my small intestine and fortunately only being small areas affected. Now when I was diagnosed I really didn't react at all, you'd almost think I didn't care as I took the news and I guess still take it very well and just get on with my life, almost relieved that I now know what the cause of my tiredness, weight loss, stomach and joint pains etc. are and that I can do something to help manage all of it.
The only thing that really does worry me though is what's in store for me in the future as I'm 21 years old and still have a heck of a lot of years (hopefully haha!) left to deal with this and I'm still pretty unsure of the best way to go about it. I take my medicine without fail every day like my life depended on that one dose each time and just go about my day studying for my exams. I still eat terribly and I know I really need to stop but it's so hard! Trying to gain weight eating healthy food is incredibly difficult and I'm such a fussy eater it makes it 10x harder! I'm my own worst enemy ha!
I don't really know where I'm going with this, just putting myself out there I guess, hopefully I'll get to know some of you better and over the coming weeks, months and years be able to help out any newbies that are in the position I'm in now
Thanks for reading!
