How were you diagnosed with crohns

[xshellyx]

how were you diagnosed with crohns

Hi i was just wondering how you guys got diagnosed. I went for a sigmoidscope today and said i had inflamation and biopsys were taken. Did you get told right away? Did you have to go back and get investigated again? or did the biopsy show it what happened thank you x

 

[Cookie]

I was diagnosed via colonoscopy and biopsy. Immediately following the colonoscopy, I was told that it appeared to be Crohns based visual (I was still slightly out of it...I'm not sure if it was inflammation or what, but I do remember him saying granulomas). Biopsies were taken and came back as positive confirmation a week later.

 

[moogie]

I was 11 years old. I was having pains in my stomach really bad cramps for about 6 months. My parents thought something was very wrong with me when one day we went to the restaurant and I refused to eat anything. When I was younger I was a realy pig

Went to the children hospital and after some of the worse exam ever they told me the great news.... you have the plague!!!

Had it ever since.

 

[Rebecca85]

I had a colonoscopy and biopsies (they already strongly suspected Crohn's from Ct). On the colonoscopy, they saw inflammation and prescribed me Pentasa. I then got the biopsy results via my GP a few weeks later, but I did have to phone up and ask for them!

 

[slim]

I was told i had a stomach virus... it literally took 2 n half weeks till they actually found out what was wrong with me.

 

[lookame]

I had bloody diarreah for a couple of weeks before my first colonoscopy. Right after he told me he found I had inflammation and based on the inflammation paired with my symptoms he said I visually had UC. Then promptly fell off the face of the Earth so I never got treated. After a year with bloody diarreah I was admitted to the hospital for a blood transfusion and my second colonoscopy. Again they told me UC because it visually comes across as UC. Biopsies and serology 7 bloodwork camee back about 2 weeks later and it's crohns disease...

I was immidiatly started on steriods and lialda and I think...2 or 3 months later I was started on 6mp. Then after about a year of still bloody stools I've been put on remicade

 

[shamrock15]

Well, here goes. When I was 17, just going to university, very physically active, 175 lbs and 5'9". In a month, I dropped almost 30 pounds because a constant nauseous feeling kept me from eating, also had sharp abdominal pains that rapidly disappeared. It was enough that as a macho kid I still went to the ER without my parents asking. Couldn't get anything done there. Also had massive fatigue - started taking afternoon naps, could sleep 14 or more hours a day. Later that summer had a massive bleed and pain that scared the (fecal matter) out of me, really sharp pains rectally. Finally, onto the small bowel follow-through and barium enemas, and a total of about 10 months, diagnosis.

 

[Eve_L]

I was 23 and had been ill for months but my doctor kept telling me it was just IBS. Even though I was getting weaker and paler every week I kept going back and one day I saw a young trainee GP. He took one look at me and sent me straight to hospital where I stayed for over a week and eventually I was diagnosed while I was there. I was so relieved to know it wasnt just me thinking I was really ill, it was actually true!