Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I stumbled across this forum when I was researching about crohn's disease. I was never diagnosed with Crohn's but I think I might have it. Here's my story. I've never had any problems as a child all the way up until my junior year in highschool. When I was in highschool I wasn't the best kid... Got into some trouble, started drinking alcohol, smoking cigs and smoking pot. I had smoked marijuana a lot of times before especially during my sophomore year, but this one time after I smoked, I got really dizzy and nauseous and started vomiting violently. I was puking for 2 weeks straight. Everyday I would throw up and just kept feeling sick to my stomach and couldn't keep any food down. It would hurt so bad cause I had nothing to puke out. Well, after awhile I stopped throwing up but I still had terrible nausea. All my friends that smoked with me that night were fine, they only threw up from getting too wasted. I went to see my doctor and told him what happened and all of them said the marijuana should be out of my system already and didn't know why I was still feeling nauseous all the time. I lived with this for many years not knowing why I still felt like this. It's been 6 years and I am now 23 years old still living with this condition. The past few years I have gone to a gastroenterologist to have Endoscopy's and Colonoscopy's done. The first 3 times I only had the Endoscopy done, and all three times my doctor told me I have GERD, which causes me to have acid reflux.. and this was also because I have a sliding Hiatal Hernia. So I have been on anti-acid meds for about 2 years now... tried everything from zantac to nexium, and now acidphex. But I would still feel sick. I would always feel nauseous... EVERYDAY. Some months were better, and I would remain that way for awhile and then it would hit me... crazy nausea where I couldn't go to work, eat, do anything. Finally I had a colonoscopy done, and my doctor said my colon looks fine, but he did find inflamation in the area where my colon attaches to my small intestine, which I believe is called the ileum? He had done a biopsy and he said it did not rule out if it was crohn's or ulcertive colitis, but just said it was some sort of auto-immune disease. I have tried asacol medication and that did not help. Before I did not have a problem with diarrhea but now I occasionally would get it, along with constipation... kind of a mix between the two I guess. I hate having this problem. I sometimes look at healthy people and I just look at them and say to myself.... man I wonder what it feels like to feel normal? I read some of the story's on this forum... and it's pretty similar to me I think. I read some people would say whenever they go out to eat they need to know where the bathroom is. For me it's kind of the same way, but its more like I need to know where the bathroom or the exit is, so when I feel like I'm gonna puke, I can just run out there. I feel like I have developed anxiety because of this now too. It's hard for me to eat out at a restaurant or go to the gym, because I get nervous and start thinking I'm gonna feel like puking. A lot of times when I eat at restaurants with my girlfriend, I have to leave her in the restaurant by herself cause I'm feeling so nauseous. Sorry I kept this long, but I just wanted to tell my story too, even though my doctor never diagnosed me with Crohn's Disease, I think i related to a lot of people here. Crohn's might be a possibility. It sucks because my insurance doesn't cover for check ups, only if I go to the E.R. So whenever I feel sick, I would go see my doctor, and he would always tell me the same thing and try to prescribe me something, and then I'd pay him like $80 bucks for him to basically talk to me everytime. He also wanted me to swallow this pill with a camera to see my small intestines to see if it is Crohn's, but I just don't have the money to do that. What do you guys think? probably Crohn's right? I get cramps, nausea, food comes up all the time too like i'm not digesting it even after 5-6 hours, hard to gain weight, tired all the time, constipation/diarrhea out of nowhere. I feel like I have food poisoning everyday... and sometimes I get confused too! like I'm thinking maybe I have food poisoning, but then again it could be crohn's, or my acid reflux... damn this makes life hard. Thanks for reading guys... I hope they come up with a cure one day...