About me eh.
My name is Danny Coutts. I’m 19 and a second year Geology student at the University of Calgary. I have yet to be officially diagnosed but I’m on my way. It’s been about a year now of tests and such. I’ve done tons of blood work, x-rays, MRI (on knee looking for torn ACL, that was their first guess when I sad terrible knee pain), barium swallows, and a sigmoidoscopy. I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy in January so I’m pretty excited (well as excited as I can be).
My main symptom is a migratory arthritis and slight urgency when I eat certain foods. The arthritis is what is paining me the most of all my symptoms. I’m a very outdoorsy guy; big into canoeing, skiing, hiking, geology; so swollen joints are really slowing me down. I don’t know if it being migratory is a blessing or not. If it’s in my legs/ankles I can play guitar but if it’s in my hands/arms I can move a whole lot more easily. And I get a day here and there where there isn’t pain which is spectacular.
As for my history, about a year ago (November 2009) I started getting pains in my hips; they would come and go so I never really worried about them. Then over Christmas break I got terrible joint pains in my feet, ankles, and knees. From then on I had a good cycle of arthritis in one joint then it would move to another, then another. It was bad enough in my knees and feet that I went out and bought a cane.
I stopped drinking about half way through the year (Feb 2010) because I thought that there was a correlation between drinking and the joint pain. It saved me a lot of money in second semester
Then in the end of April my pains just stopped. I went through the summer completely joint pain free. Some of my other symptoms persisted and picked up. I started to see blood in my stool, had lots or urgency, etc. But the joint pain was gone so I was super pumped for summer. I spent the summer hiking, canoeing, biking, being active. My joints help up enough for me to complete a field course for school but then it the arthritis started picking up again right after that. Now I’m back to not knowing what joint will hurt next.
Anyways that’s my story. Right now I’m on Asacol until we get a clear diagnosis. I don’t know if it’s actually doing anything for me though. And I’m a bit too afraid to wean myself off of it to see if it is.
All in all life keeps going. I just hit a speed bump.
Let me know if you have the same kind of symptoms: mostly migratory arthritis and some bowel. I’d love to pick your brain.
Thanks for reading.
Danny.
My name is Danny Coutts. I’m 19 and a second year Geology student at the University of Calgary. I have yet to be officially diagnosed but I’m on my way. It’s been about a year now of tests and such. I’ve done tons of blood work, x-rays, MRI (on knee looking for torn ACL, that was their first guess when I sad terrible knee pain), barium swallows, and a sigmoidoscopy. I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy in January so I’m pretty excited (well as excited as I can be).
My main symptom is a migratory arthritis and slight urgency when I eat certain foods. The arthritis is what is paining me the most of all my symptoms. I’m a very outdoorsy guy; big into canoeing, skiing, hiking, geology; so swollen joints are really slowing me down. I don’t know if it being migratory is a blessing or not. If it’s in my legs/ankles I can play guitar but if it’s in my hands/arms I can move a whole lot more easily. And I get a day here and there where there isn’t pain which is spectacular.
As for my history, about a year ago (November 2009) I started getting pains in my hips; they would come and go so I never really worried about them. Then over Christmas break I got terrible joint pains in my feet, ankles, and knees. From then on I had a good cycle of arthritis in one joint then it would move to another, then another. It was bad enough in my knees and feet that I went out and bought a cane.
I stopped drinking about half way through the year (Feb 2010) because I thought that there was a correlation between drinking and the joint pain. It saved me a lot of money in second semester
Then in the end of April my pains just stopped. I went through the summer completely joint pain free. Some of my other symptoms persisted and picked up. I started to see blood in my stool, had lots or urgency, etc. But the joint pain was gone so I was super pumped for summer. I spent the summer hiking, canoeing, biking, being active. My joints help up enough for me to complete a field course for school but then it the arthritis started picking up again right after that. Now I’m back to not knowing what joint will hurt next. Anyways that’s my story. Right now I’m on Asacol until we get a clear diagnosis. I don’t know if it’s actually doing anything for me though. And I’m a bit too afraid to wean myself off of it to see if it is.
All in all life keeps going. I just hit a speed bump.
Let me know if you have the same kind of symptoms: mostly migratory arthritis and some bowel. I’d love to pick your brain.
Thanks for reading.
Danny.
