hmmm can't delete the post and put it kinda in wrong section... so guess I might as well make a full story thingy. Since you might as well know if I survive the next few weeks I will probably add visiting here to my daily forums to poke at.
3ish years ago my colon was happy. It would have a bm once every other day. All was good. I then ate at a place that had served us some bad salsa. This led to everyone that was at that restaurant to expel the contents of their bodies out both ends for days. Everyone else recovered but me. Mine changed but was what everything says is normal so I did not think much of it. (2x bm per day~ still mostly consistent and good).
2ish years ago I had an iritis. Was interesting one pupal was completely frozen the other would respond and make funny shapes as it was partially frozen. inconclusive blood tests and lots of eye drop prednisolone later it was back to good. (eyes at time are really itchy but it has never recurred). Both my eye doc and regular doc were involved. My regular doc had me do a gluten allergy test and some other stuff as well and nothing.
about mid way through this last July my nose mucosal membranes have become inflamed and not gone down/recovered. Even though I have left the environment I am in thrice and never had allergies before so its weird they are so swollen. regular doc and gi doc have no idea why.
I went on a backpacking trip in another state and from the shift in altitude, workload, dehydration, etc I was constipated for a change. 3ish days later I exploded and ripped a good fissure or two into my bottom. Not much fun, but it more or less was healing on its own.
I went on a second backpacking trip in another state and mid trip I had a second constipation and explosion event that re-ripped the fissures. Not so much fun and this time they did not heal much.
Then I went to Florida (see lots different environments yet my nose never unswelled so at least that is environment independent). After I got back from Florida all seemed well.
About a week later things changed. I started to have lots of burning flaming diarehea, many times a day. It would make the fisures hurt. Pain is so intense i would grip down hard into my quads and try not to scream. When home I would jump into the shower and clean up and get some quick releif by doing so. Regular work was unbearable, I am consulting on the side as well and one of the companies I was consulting for has having huge problems so my stress level was off the charts. After about 5 days I called up my regular doctor and scheduled an appointment. It was another 5 days out. I couldn't take it so I looked for random stuff online and read about imodium and how it worked similar to oxycodine, it just doesn't cross the blood brain barrier. So figured great this will help, since the later freezes my gi tract up solid, and it wont give me the horrid side effects since it wont touch my brain. And sure enough it worked, it brought me down to 2 bm/day which was infinitely better.
I went to my regular doctor and he unhappy with imodium and rightly so, citing the potential for it to slow stuff down and allow out of control bacterial/toxin growth. So I stopped... back to pain and lots of diarrhea. Doctor had me collect stole samples and had me start a diet of pro-biotic yogurt, self hand washed vegetables, and Metamucil. This did cut down on the burning aspect a little. It did nothing to decrease frequency. We talked on the phone after he got all the results back. He asked if there were any changes and I told him what I was experiencing. He said to discontinue the diet. (I kept eating yogurt and taking the Metamucil as anything that helps with the burning was worth it). He also told me to finish up the antibiotic he never prescribed ._. I thought that was odd but whatever. I mentioned it and he said oh.... blood leukocyte test and parasite blood leukocyte test were positive. But all the individualized parasite, bacteria, etc tests came back negative. So that showed inflamed gi track. He then forwarded me to a GI doc.
3 weeks of suffering waiting for the first appointment with a gi doc was not fun. When I finally got in to the gi doc's pa. we went over my story and medical records. Poked around my stomach but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. After hearing everything she decided to go ahead with a colonoscopy as soon as possible. So had one 5 days later (yesterday, tuesday). Prep stuff wasn't all that bad. Everything was already flowing out of me. So the prep stuff speeding things along was better then not since it did not really increase frequency but it did decrease burning since there was so much extra fluid there!
So here we are now. preliminary findings being chrons. As I said above I am very unhappy I don't know what to do. I sure home something can happen to stop this cause it really hurts and is no fun. Work is hard but mandatory can't stop going, hanging out with friends is near impossible when you have to go randomly every 5~30 minutes. I hate my life.
current symptoms:
diarrhea 20+ times a day~ some days better some worse seems random. usually bile yellow/green colored but will be completely random between bursts. occasionally terry black which means bleeding some where
night fever 99~100
itchy eyes
nausea sometimes
newly developed cough~ (something I got from a coworker i think)
headaches
pain
itchy butt
painful butt when coughing and sphincter tries to contract inwardly!
tired (messed up sleep schedule from work and from bathroom visits)
unnaturally cold feeling (normally I feel very hot when in a room at 72+f, recently I have been keeping my home at 75~80f and still feel like I am freezing)
symptom I wish I had:
weight loss! ha (222 down from 250 last December, intentional weight loss from exercise and stuff, goal is 209~ so I can have a normal bmi)
I hope something can make it stop :/ cause I don't know how much longer I can take this. 2 trips to the bathroom to type this up not counting the one right before starting to type....
