Hi everybody,
Was just recently diagnosed with crohn's in Sept 2012 so Im new to this kind of thing and just had a few questions.
Like I said only recenty diagnosed in Sept. but have been having mild symptoms since I've been 21 (I'm 30 now). Only symptoms really were diarhea and I guess some cramping. (My GP had referred me to GI then because she was questioning some type of IBD but being young and dumb cancelled my app. for scopes and never went back and didn't mention it again until 2yrs ago). 2 1\2 yrs ago I had my gallbladder removed and have been having increased diarhea since then (maybe 10/day) tried questran and had trouble regulating with and stopped it. 7 mnths ago went on a diet ( increase veggie intake +++) and diarhea became out of control, like up to 20 a day, waking up at night and had to plan my life around availabe washrooms. so finaly went back to dr, had b/w done B12 low and esr was up, had upper GI with follow-through and was told then by the radiologist that i had crohns. quickly refered to GI had colonoscopy done the next week.
So it showed that i had crohn's in small bowel and TI i think, don't think it was that bad but he said it has been going on a while and needed to start treatment asap. so i was started on Imuran ( which I was tolerating well) for 3wks until I developed pancreatitis, was in hospital for 5days and was discharged home with some mild residual pain that i was told might last a while.
This was 1 wk ago and i still have some pancreas type pain i would describe it as mild, was finaly able to start eating couple of days ago and now have developed abd pain pretty generalized all over not just over pancreas, its very paifull at times, feeling very gassy bloated, trouble with what feels like constipation and then diarhea again, nausea at times...and also the pain goes into my back.
My question is: could this be crohns flare-up? never really delt with a flare-up so not sure what to expect.
PS i was started on entocort 9mg/day and he is planning on starting methotrexate in the next few weeks.
Was just recently diagnosed with crohn's in Sept 2012 so Im new to this kind of thing and just had a few questions.
Like I said only recenty diagnosed in Sept. but have been having mild symptoms since I've been 21 (I'm 30 now). Only symptoms really were diarhea and I guess some cramping. (My GP had referred me to GI then because she was questioning some type of IBD but being young and dumb cancelled my app. for scopes and never went back and didn't mention it again until 2yrs ago). 2 1\2 yrs ago I had my gallbladder removed and have been having increased diarhea since then (maybe 10/day) tried questran and had trouble regulating with and stopped it. 7 mnths ago went on a diet ( increase veggie intake +++) and diarhea became out of control, like up to 20 a day, waking up at night and had to plan my life around availabe washrooms. so finaly went back to dr, had b/w done B12 low and esr was up, had upper GI with follow-through and was told then by the radiologist that i had crohns. quickly refered to GI had colonoscopy done the next week.
So it showed that i had crohn's in small bowel and TI i think, don't think it was that bad but he said it has been going on a while and needed to start treatment asap. so i was started on Imuran ( which I was tolerating well) for 3wks until I developed pancreatitis, was in hospital for 5days and was discharged home with some mild residual pain that i was told might last a while.
This was 1 wk ago and i still have some pancreas type pain i would describe it as mild, was finaly able to start eating couple of days ago and now have developed abd pain pretty generalized all over not just over pancreas, its very paifull at times, feeling very gassy bloated, trouble with what feels like constipation and then diarhea again, nausea at times...and also the pain goes into my back.
My question is: could this be crohns flare-up? never really delt with a flare-up so not sure what to expect.
PS i was started on entocort 9mg/day and he is planning on starting methotrexate in the next few weeks.
