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I don't know if I am looking for answers but I am not sure what to.
Personally, I do not have Crohn's disease but my boyfriend does.
We haven't been seeing each other long and he told me about it before we became an official couple and has been very open about it.
He takes different medicines for it, I think there is three he takes that are Crohn's related, ones steroids, another prevents damage to his liver that the steroids cause and I can't remember the third. He has a weak immune system (I don't know if it's related to his Crohn's) and he gets ill a lot as a result. Also his medicine makes him ill too and he feels tired a lot of the time.
He said that he spent a lot of his childhood in hospital because of Crohn's and around the age of 11 had either 6 or 12 inches of his large intestine removed (he said he can't remember how much he just knows it was one or the other.) he had to have the same operation at the beginning of 2011 with the same amount of large intestine being removed.
He also informed me that at 18 when things with how ill he was began getting really bad, he turned to drink, he'd constantly be going out drinking and around this time doctors said he wouldn't make it to 36 if things didn't change.
He still does, but rarely, and when he does he doesn't drink a lot. He said he doesn't know whether or not the 36 thing was a way to scare him off alcohol or whether they were being serious that he wouldn't last past 36. If they were right that gives him 10 years.
We haven't been seeing each other long, but he has become very dear to me very quickly, I have no intention on leaving him because of this disease, I have done some research myself to try and make things easier for him, but I don't know what to do exactly.
He's been ill a lot more than usual recently, and complaining that he feels tired all the time (pretty much every time I see him). He's saying I shouldn't worry about him, after all he's been dealing with this illness alone for a long time. A few weeks ago though I heard him say something like "It can't be getting this bad again, It's only been 2 years since the operation." He said he was just exclaiming because he was feeling ill and I shouldn't be bothered but I am getting worried.
I have known this man for a long time, and I love him very much, I want to make things easier for him, I want to be able to support him, but I think I am getting to wrapped up in my own upset over him being ill. Can anyone offer any advice in this? I thought where else better to ask for advice than in a place where people experience the disease first hand. I'm really worried for him.
I don't know if I am looking for answers but I am not sure what to.
Personally, I do not have Crohn's disease but my boyfriend does.
We haven't been seeing each other long and he told me about it before we became an official couple and has been very open about it.
He takes different medicines for it, I think there is three he takes that are Crohn's related, ones steroids, another prevents damage to his liver that the steroids cause and I can't remember the third. He has a weak immune system (I don't know if it's related to his Crohn's) and he gets ill a lot as a result. Also his medicine makes him ill too and he feels tired a lot of the time.
He said that he spent a lot of his childhood in hospital because of Crohn's and around the age of 11 had either 6 or 12 inches of his large intestine removed (he said he can't remember how much he just knows it was one or the other.) he had to have the same operation at the beginning of 2011 with the same amount of large intestine being removed.
He also informed me that at 18 when things with how ill he was began getting really bad, he turned to drink, he'd constantly be going out drinking and around this time doctors said he wouldn't make it to 36 if things didn't change.
He still does, but rarely, and when he does he doesn't drink a lot. He said he doesn't know whether or not the 36 thing was a way to scare him off alcohol or whether they were being serious that he wouldn't last past 36. If they were right that gives him 10 years.
We haven't been seeing each other long, but he has become very dear to me very quickly, I have no intention on leaving him because of this disease, I have done some research myself to try and make things easier for him, but I don't know what to do exactly.
He's been ill a lot more than usual recently, and complaining that he feels tired all the time (pretty much every time I see him). He's saying I shouldn't worry about him, after all he's been dealing with this illness alone for a long time. A few weeks ago though I heard him say something like "It can't be getting this bad again, It's only been 2 years since the operation." He said he was just exclaiming because he was feeling ill and I shouldn't be bothered but I am getting worried.
I have known this man for a long time, and I love him very much, I want to make things easier for him, I want to be able to support him, but I think I am getting to wrapped up in my own upset over him being ill. Can anyone offer any advice in this? I thought where else better to ask for advice than in a place where people experience the disease first hand. I'm really worried for him.
