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Anyone else hate using the "Crohns" or "Colitis" label when talking about your illness? I've grown to hate it. And normally if I am ever describing my illness to somebody (which is rare), I will usually just say "chronic inflammation" or "intestinal inflammation".
I just don't like the fact that there are other people out there, that are diagnosed with Crohns, that are on the weakest of medications and go about life fine. There are people diagnosed with Crohns that can consistently have normal BM's and go once or twice a day. UM, YOU DON'T HAVE WHAT I HAVE, NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Not to mention I've heard from a few psychologists that once you are labeled, YOU BECOME THAT LABEL. I've always thought about this, that maybe a lot of this disease is "in my head", but that mindset is quickly erased when colonoscopies are performed and ulcerations are found all throughout my colon LOL, and you lose about 25 lbs in a months time, and you need to consistently be on drugs to literally stay alive.
Plus why do we feel a need we have to label EVERYTHING??? We all have different symptoms, we all are effected different, we all experience different symptoms.
Sorry for the weird thread just had to get some thoughts out of my head.
I just don't like the fact that there are other people out there, that are diagnosed with Crohns, that are on the weakest of medications and go about life fine. There are people diagnosed with Crohns that can consistently have normal BM's and go once or twice a day. UM, YOU DON'T HAVE WHAT I HAVE, NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Not to mention I've heard from a few psychologists that once you are labeled, YOU BECOME THAT LABEL. I've always thought about this, that maybe a lot of this disease is "in my head", but that mindset is quickly erased when colonoscopies are performed and ulcerations are found all throughout my colon LOL, and you lose about 25 lbs in a months time, and you need to consistently be on drugs to literally stay alive.
Plus why do we feel a need we have to label EVERYTHING??? We all have different symptoms, we all are effected different, we all experience different symptoms.
Sorry for the weird thread just had to get some thoughts out of my head.