Hi there. I had a colonoscopy on Thursday that told me I have moderate inflammation from the cecum to the left colon which is likely a new diagnosis of Crohn's disease.
I'm not having a good time with this, as I'm sure many of you aren't, but I am happy that this forum is here and I'm happy to be part of this community. I have many concerns about various symptoms I'm having and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little scared about all this going on...
I guess I'll give general info here about my situation and then post specific concerns elsewhere on the forum?
Until now, for the last 10-15 years I've had Ibs. A colonoscopy ten years ago found nothing to suggest why I was having a change in bowel movements - at that time it was just very soft movements all the time.
About three months ago my movements changed again to but this time to watery diarrhea . And it didn't go away. I also at that time had spinal pain after about 4 hours of sleeping but I had sciatica when I was in my twenties and I ignored that symptom as related..
Anyway.. My movements became explosive and we're always an orange colour. During my colonoscopy prep all I had was watery blood coming out the night prior.
Now.. Here I sit two days after and I'm still having painful watery explosive movements with a fair bit of blood in them and I'm somewhat scared.
I was proscribed asacol 2.4g twice a day but that does not seem to have been effective at all as of yet. I'm hoping I have to give it more time.
Anyway, I can rant on forever probably, so I'll just stop and leave my specifics for other areas of the forum.
Thanks,
Chris
I'm not having a good time with this, as I'm sure many of you aren't, but I am happy that this forum is here and I'm happy to be part of this community. I have many concerns about various symptoms I'm having and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little scared about all this going on...
I guess I'll give general info here about my situation and then post specific concerns elsewhere on the forum?
Until now, for the last 10-15 years I've had Ibs. A colonoscopy ten years ago found nothing to suggest why I was having a change in bowel movements - at that time it was just very soft movements all the time.
About three months ago my movements changed again to but this time to watery diarrhea . And it didn't go away. I also at that time had spinal pain after about 4 hours of sleeping but I had sciatica when I was in my twenties and I ignored that symptom as related..
Anyway.. My movements became explosive and we're always an orange colour. During my colonoscopy prep all I had was watery blood coming out the night prior.
Now.. Here I sit two days after and I'm still having painful watery explosive movements with a fair bit of blood in them and I'm somewhat scared.
I was proscribed asacol 2.4g twice a day but that does not seem to have been effective at all as of yet. I'm hoping I have to give it more time.
Anyway, I can rant on forever probably, so I'll just stop and leave my specifics for other areas of the forum.
Thanks,
Chris
