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I see that the first post here is supposed to be in the Your Story forum so here I am.
I am about to turn 24 years old and am recently diagnosed with Crohn's and RA. I have dealt with GI issues my entire life and while suspicions were there, no doctor would "take the leap" and call it what it is. It started in 2010 when I went into the ER with severe abdominal pain, fever etc... and they "determined" that I needed an appendectomy. I went through the surgery and for a brief period afterwards felt OK. Soon after though I developed a bowel obstruction and was hospitalized again. That resolved I went home only to be back in the hospital 3 weeks later with a second bowel obstruction. The doctors there told me to eat more fiber to help move through this system. I tried explaining to them that if I eat fiber I would only be right back here with a third obstruction. So I disregarded their recommendations and tried to come up with a diet on my own. A few months later I was still in the same pain with the vomiting and diarrhea getting worse. My GI decided that my gall bladder needed to come out - and while that has solved a lot of the vomiting issue, I have been bleeding mildly for about a month now. I was put on Entocort along with protonix. Because of all of this I have had to stop going to school and not been able to work consistently. I'm still in the very early stages of figuring out how to handle this and what medications to be put on. So this is my story. It's only the beginning.
I am about to turn 24 years old and am recently diagnosed with Crohn's and RA. I have dealt with GI issues my entire life and while suspicions were there, no doctor would "take the leap" and call it what it is. It started in 2010 when I went into the ER with severe abdominal pain, fever etc... and they "determined" that I needed an appendectomy. I went through the surgery and for a brief period afterwards felt OK. Soon after though I developed a bowel obstruction and was hospitalized again. That resolved I went home only to be back in the hospital 3 weeks later with a second bowel obstruction. The doctors there told me to eat more fiber to help move through this system. I tried explaining to them that if I eat fiber I would only be right back here with a third obstruction. So I disregarded their recommendations and tried to come up with a diet on my own. A few months later I was still in the same pain with the vomiting and diarrhea getting worse. My GI decided that my gall bladder needed to come out - and while that has solved a lot of the vomiting issue, I have been bleeding mildly for about a month now. I was put on Entocort along with protonix. Because of all of this I have had to stop going to school and not been able to work consistently. I'm still in the very early stages of figuring out how to handle this and what medications to be put on. So this is my story. It's only the beginning.
