Hi,
I'm new and this is my story.
My granny died of bowel cancer, my mother had crohns and my sister has ulcerative colitis. Growing up I thought that men went to the toilet once a day at the same time and women went at least 20 times. You didn't settle down for a nice bath in our house without interuption and you certainly never locked the door.
I started seeing the doctor with symptoms nearly 30 years ago. I've been diagnosed with gall stones and a dodgy gall bladder. Then they went for the good old fall back of IBS. Which in my mind is a lazy diagnosis. It doesn't help when they start the sentence with "the most common cause for your symptoms is.....".
I kept saying that perhaps they should look at my family history which was rife with IBD but it wasn't until I had worked my way through all the doctors in the surgery and found a new one and shouted at her until she sent me for a colonoscopy that I finally got a result.
This of course wasn't my first colonoscopy. By the way, when did they stop giving you sedation for these? On my last ones I had to make polite conversation with a nurse (who was holding my hand) while 2 other guys were blowing air up my bum! You have to pay a lot of money to have that done in some places - if you know what I mean!
Anyway, when the doctor came to see me after that procedure he said he was sorry to say he had discovered lesions. I said hooray!
Since then I've been taking Pentasa (Mesalazine) but it doesn't appear to be working any more so I'm in the process of moving over to Azathioprine. Let's see what that does.
The one thing I want to know is, how can I possibly be this fat when the food doesn't actually stay in my body that long? I know it's gross but I can actually identify what I've eaten on a meal by meal basis.
I should be at least 50 pounds lighter than I am.
Anyway, that's me and I'm pleased to meet you all.
Jan x
I'm new and this is my story.
My granny died of bowel cancer, my mother had crohns and my sister has ulcerative colitis. Growing up I thought that men went to the toilet once a day at the same time and women went at least 20 times. You didn't settle down for a nice bath in our house without interuption and you certainly never locked the door.
I started seeing the doctor with symptoms nearly 30 years ago. I've been diagnosed with gall stones and a dodgy gall bladder. Then they went for the good old fall back of IBS. Which in my mind is a lazy diagnosis. It doesn't help when they start the sentence with "the most common cause for your symptoms is.....".
I kept saying that perhaps they should look at my family history which was rife with IBD but it wasn't until I had worked my way through all the doctors in the surgery and found a new one and shouted at her until she sent me for a colonoscopy that I finally got a result.
This of course wasn't my first colonoscopy. By the way, when did they stop giving you sedation for these? On my last ones I had to make polite conversation with a nurse (who was holding my hand) while 2 other guys were blowing air up my bum! You have to pay a lot of money to have that done in some places - if you know what I mean!
Anyway, when the doctor came to see me after that procedure he said he was sorry to say he had discovered lesions. I said hooray!
Since then I've been taking Pentasa (Mesalazine) but it doesn't appear to be working any more so I'm in the process of moving over to Azathioprine. Let's see what that does.
The one thing I want to know is, how can I possibly be this fat when the food doesn't actually stay in my body that long? I know it's gross but I can actually identify what I've eaten on a meal by meal basis.
I should be at least 50 pounds lighter than I am.
Anyway, that's me and I'm pleased to meet you all.
Jan x
