Hello!
My Crohn's story starts early July, I believe it was July 5th. I started to feel a little under the weather, mostly my body was aching for no reason, but I didn't really worry too much because it wasn't that bad. That week and the next I continued to work, but it did start to get worse in the middle of the second week. I started to feel warm and had a temperature, my body ached terribly, I was extremely fatigued (although I had been fatigued for months and months already with no answer). That Friday I left work early and went to the ER.
They ran lots of blood work, tests, chest x-ray for my cough, etc. etc. Also my fever wasn't constant and while I was there I had none. I get the feeling they thought I was a hypochondriac and they just told me to get some rest.
I felt awful the whole weekend and due to my work situation (I was a temp) I went into work that Monday with a doctors appointment and told them I had a temperature of 102.5 (and showed them the thermometer) and left for my appointment.
A cat scan revealed that there was something up in my digestive tract and that following Tuesday I had a colonoscopy and was diagnosed. By that time the flare up had seemed to go away and I felt pretty good. Unfortunately that Friday before it I was let go from my job because I hadn't been able to go to work, despite my emergency situation and doctors notes for every moment I was not there. (If anyone has advice on this, please advise).
Anyway they put me on Budesonide which I am now going off of and going on Pentasa. So thats my story!
My Crohn's story starts early July, I believe it was July 5th. I started to feel a little under the weather, mostly my body was aching for no reason, but I didn't really worry too much because it wasn't that bad. That week and the next I continued to work, but it did start to get worse in the middle of the second week. I started to feel warm and had a temperature, my body ached terribly, I was extremely fatigued (although I had been fatigued for months and months already with no answer). That Friday I left work early and went to the ER.
They ran lots of blood work, tests, chest x-ray for my cough, etc. etc. Also my fever wasn't constant and while I was there I had none. I get the feeling they thought I was a hypochondriac and they just told me to get some rest.
I felt awful the whole weekend and due to my work situation (I was a temp) I went into work that Monday with a doctors appointment and told them I had a temperature of 102.5 (and showed them the thermometer) and left for my appointment.
A cat scan revealed that there was something up in my digestive tract and that following Tuesday I had a colonoscopy and was diagnosed. By that time the flare up had seemed to go away and I felt pretty good. Unfortunately that Friday before it I was let go from my job because I hadn't been able to go to work, despite my emergency situation and doctors notes for every moment I was not there. (If anyone has advice on this, please advise).
Anyway they put me on Budesonide which I am now going off of and going on Pentasa. So thats my story!
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