Crohn's Mom
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So I am scheduled for an upper endoscopy tomorrow after seeing my GI yesterday for a semi-urgent appointment set up by my Gynecologist. I have had one of these at least a few times before, although it has probably been around 8 years if I remember correctly.
Maybe it's the "urgency" of it that is scaring me?
I don't really like to talk about me too much on here; maybe it's because I talk so much about my daughter and sometimes my boys as well, I kinda feel like it's a bit too much ?? I dunno...
Anyhow, I have been really sick for approximately a month now. Long story short, I've been to the hospital twice in the last week, admitted once for extreme abdominal pain and 103F fever for 2 days. Of course I really learned next to nothing there except I had 2 cysts on my left ovary that are complex and one simple on my right. They honestly treated me like garbage and sadly I have excellent insurance!
So, off to my Gyno I went. I had a hysterectomy 10 years a go so the only thing left are my ovaries. Knowing this, and my history of undiagnosed digestive problems, led the doc to believe it's an underlying issue causing the cysts and they are not the source of pain. He personally called my GI doc while I was there and insisted that he see me that day, and wouldn't let me leave his office until the GI doc agreed. He agreed and off I went to see him.
It's been a little over 2 years since I have seen the GI, mainly because I put my own health on hold to take care of my daughters bad CD issues. He listened, and talked, and throughly went through all of my previous records. He ordered a TON of blood work which I went and had done this morning. He also ordered a ton of stool tests (arrghhh). Of course my guts have decided that they will NOT cooperate with those tests! LOL...I literally went from having D 10-15 x's a day to NOTHING as soon as I picked up the kit :ylol:
oh well, I'm sure it will all come out eventually :ylol:
So the GI doc believes I have severe adhesions in my lower abdomen and probably bowel either glued together, twisted, or glued to the abdominal wall...or all of the above, and the only solution is surgery. He really didn't speculate as to why I have this but we discussed Crohn's, and also we discussed previous abdominal surgery as a cause.
He and my GYN both said that there is "something" very wrong with me, they know this, but they just don't know what it is yet. Those words are probably why I am so nervous even though it's just an upper endoscopy tomorrow? Hell, I have pretty much thought, off and on, that I have CD for nearly 20+ years. (at least that is how long I have had problems and no answers).
That is also a big reason why I hesitate to post here...because it has been such an extremely long hard journey for me, and I don't want all of you to get more discouraged then you already are.
So, that's a tad bit of my story in a nutshell.
HOpefully, I can get a little sleep tonight. I feel really silly being nervous over this when I have been through sooo much more and I know this is such a simple procedure in comparison.
Thanks for listening girls!
:ghug:
Maybe it's the "urgency" of it that is scaring me?
I don't really like to talk about me too much on here; maybe it's because I talk so much about my daughter and sometimes my boys as well, I kinda feel like it's a bit too much ?? I dunno...
Anyhow, I have been really sick for approximately a month now. Long story short, I've been to the hospital twice in the last week, admitted once for extreme abdominal pain and 103F fever for 2 days. Of course I really learned next to nothing there except I had 2 cysts on my left ovary that are complex and one simple on my right. They honestly treated me like garbage and sadly I have excellent insurance!
So, off to my Gyno I went. I had a hysterectomy 10 years a go so the only thing left are my ovaries. Knowing this, and my history of undiagnosed digestive problems, led the doc to believe it's an underlying issue causing the cysts and they are not the source of pain. He personally called my GI doc while I was there and insisted that he see me that day, and wouldn't let me leave his office until the GI doc agreed. He agreed and off I went to see him.
It's been a little over 2 years since I have seen the GI, mainly because I put my own health on hold to take care of my daughters bad CD issues. He listened, and talked, and throughly went through all of my previous records. He ordered a TON of blood work which I went and had done this morning. He also ordered a ton of stool tests (arrghhh). Of course my guts have decided that they will NOT cooperate with those tests! LOL...I literally went from having D 10-15 x's a day to NOTHING as soon as I picked up the kit :ylol:
oh well, I'm sure it will all come out eventually :ylol:
So the GI doc believes I have severe adhesions in my lower abdomen and probably bowel either glued together, twisted, or glued to the abdominal wall...or all of the above, and the only solution is surgery. He really didn't speculate as to why I have this but we discussed Crohn's, and also we discussed previous abdominal surgery as a cause.
He and my GYN both said that there is "something" very wrong with me, they know this, but they just don't know what it is yet. Those words are probably why I am so nervous even though it's just an upper endoscopy tomorrow? Hell, I have pretty much thought, off and on, that I have CD for nearly 20+ years. (at least that is how long I have had problems and no answers).
That is also a big reason why I hesitate to post here...because it has been such an extremely long hard journey for me, and I don't want all of you to get more discouraged then you already are.
So, that's a tad bit of my story in a nutshell.
HOpefully, I can get a little sleep tonight. I feel really silly being nervous over this when I have been through sooo much more and I know this is such a simple procedure in comparison.
Thanks for listening girls!
:ghug: