Hi Everyone!
My name's Brianna and I am 20. I have had Crohn's for 6 years . I was diagnosed at 14 after about a year of diarrhea, mucous, vommitting and extreme weight loss. I lost about 40 lbs in the span of about 6-8 months. My GI is fantastic and luckily found the Crohn's. At 18 I had a bad flare-up which left me sick for a month, luckily without being in the hospital. Just this past summer I thought I had appendicitis as I had severe pain in my lower right quadrant and a fever. After a day of severe pain, I decided to go to emerg.
They found with two abscess' which needed to be drained. At first, antibiotics were tried and unfortunately they just got worse. I ended up having two drains put in for a week. They were then removed and I continued on antibiotics. I had a summer of trying to recouperate from everything as I lost so much weight and strength. I had about three months off of work and am not working a few hours a week and am only in part-time school. I have tried pentasa, entocort, nexium, prednisone and many more. I think the worst part is the constant worry of getting to the washroom on time. I have accidents quite a lot and I do not go out as much as I would like to. The constant worrying has made me have anxiety attacks and I have been put on anti-anxiety pills to help with this and the stress of school. The past two weeks I have experienced lots of pain in the same area as with the abscesses and I worry they are coming back. I have a slight fever every once in a while and the pain is off and on. I am currently on prednisone and am supposed to be starting azathioprine but I am scared of the side effects. I can not get an appointment with my GI for three weeks and am worried my abscesses may be back. GI said if they come back the next step is surgery to remove part of my intestine. I am so scared of this and hope that the abscesses are not coming back. I would love to get to know other people with Crohn's and just be able to talk to other people understanding what I am going through.
I would love to know your thoughts on what you think about the recurring stomach pain after having abscess' drained as well as any side effects of azathioprine.
Thanks so much, Brianna.
My name's Brianna and I am 20. I have had Crohn's for 6 years . I was diagnosed at 14 after about a year of diarrhea, mucous, vommitting and extreme weight loss. I lost about 40 lbs in the span of about 6-8 months. My GI is fantastic and luckily found the Crohn's. At 18 I had a bad flare-up which left me sick for a month, luckily without being in the hospital. Just this past summer I thought I had appendicitis as I had severe pain in my lower right quadrant and a fever. After a day of severe pain, I decided to go to emerg.
They found with two abscess' which needed to be drained. At first, antibiotics were tried and unfortunately they just got worse. I ended up having two drains put in for a week. They were then removed and I continued on antibiotics. I had a summer of trying to recouperate from everything as I lost so much weight and strength. I had about three months off of work and am not working a few hours a week and am only in part-time school. I have tried pentasa, entocort, nexium, prednisone and many more. I think the worst part is the constant worry of getting to the washroom on time. I have accidents quite a lot and I do not go out as much as I would like to. The constant worrying has made me have anxiety attacks and I have been put on anti-anxiety pills to help with this and the stress of school. The past two weeks I have experienced lots of pain in the same area as with the abscesses and I worry they are coming back. I have a slight fever every once in a while and the pain is off and on. I am currently on prednisone and am supposed to be starting azathioprine but I am scared of the side effects. I can not get an appointment with my GI for three weeks and am worried my abscesses may be back. GI said if they come back the next step is surgery to remove part of my intestine. I am so scared of this and hope that the abscesses are not coming back. I would love to get to know other people with Crohn's and just be able to talk to other people understanding what I am going through.
I would love to know your thoughts on what you think about the recurring stomach pain after having abscess' drained as well as any side effects of azathioprine.
Thanks so much, Brianna.
