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hi my name is lindsay and im new to this board.:ycool:
My Story
Ever since May 2006 I had been losing a lot of weight, had bad stomach pains, felt dizzy, and had no appetite and had bad diarrhea. I also threw up a lot. So when I went to the doctor’s for a check-up they noticed all of my weight loss. So I had to go in every week and keep a food journal of everything I ate. Well, each week I went in I would lose some more weight. They made me drink two bottles of ensure plus every day. Let me tell you, that stuff is nasty! I’m sure you have probably drank it too at some point. The doctor tried to say I had an eating disorder, but I knew I didn’t. I was really mad that they thought this. They took some blood samples and stool samples, but they said it all came back fine. Well the doctor was about ready to admit me to the hospital by then. Each time they took a blood test my mother asked them if they could please check my albumin level, but they didn’t. So, the third time my mom asked them to check my albumin when they took another blood sample they finally did. Well, it came back very low so I got referred to a GI specialist right then. So on a Monday I went to see my GI doctor. He looked at me and felt my belly and checked my fingernails and then he said that I probably have crohn’s but we need to do some procedures to make sure. So I did the no eating thing and had the stuff to clean you out. Gross stuff. LOL. SO I went in that Wednesday and I got a colonoscopy with biopsies and an endoscopy. I was scared and nervous about this because I have never had anything like this done before. But it was not as bad as I thought. I got knocked out so I was fast asleep, but I did wake up once and I saw my insides on the monitor. It was cool, but kind of gross. So they gave me some more sedatives and I fell back asleep. Well, good thing is, is that I know what I have. But bad thing is, is that it is crohn’s. I have it everywhere except my mouth and esophagus. Later on I had to get and upper GI series with small bowel pass through. Barium is the nastiest stuff ever!!! Even worse than ensure. Well I had been put on lots of medicine it didn’t really seem to help that much. So, I had yet another blood test to see if I could take Imuran. I could, but it still didn’t really help that much. So, next drug in line was Remicade. I had to get a Tuberculosis test to see if I could take Remicade. I could. I was scared because it is an IV. You sit for two to three hours with an IV sticking inside of you to receive the medications. That wasn’t that bad either. As of right now I have had three Remicade treatments and my last one they doubled the dose because that hasn’t really been working all that great. I got a really bad headache that night. With Remicade I get headaches every day. I hate it. Right now it isn’t really helping, but it may have to take some time to work, I don’t know. Well that is all I can remember right now.
hi my name is lindsay and im new to this board.:ycool:
My Story
Ever since May 2006 I had been losing a lot of weight, had bad stomach pains, felt dizzy, and had no appetite and had bad diarrhea. I also threw up a lot. So when I went to the doctor’s for a check-up they noticed all of my weight loss. So I had to go in every week and keep a food journal of everything I ate. Well, each week I went in I would lose some more weight. They made me drink two bottles of ensure plus every day. Let me tell you, that stuff is nasty! I’m sure you have probably drank it too at some point. The doctor tried to say I had an eating disorder, but I knew I didn’t. I was really mad that they thought this. They took some blood samples and stool samples, but they said it all came back fine. Well the doctor was about ready to admit me to the hospital by then. Each time they took a blood test my mother asked them if they could please check my albumin level, but they didn’t. So, the third time my mom asked them to check my albumin when they took another blood sample they finally did. Well, it came back very low so I got referred to a GI specialist right then. So on a Monday I went to see my GI doctor. He looked at me and felt my belly and checked my fingernails and then he said that I probably have crohn’s but we need to do some procedures to make sure. So I did the no eating thing and had the stuff to clean you out. Gross stuff. LOL. SO I went in that Wednesday and I got a colonoscopy with biopsies and an endoscopy. I was scared and nervous about this because I have never had anything like this done before. But it was not as bad as I thought. I got knocked out so I was fast asleep, but I did wake up once and I saw my insides on the monitor. It was cool, but kind of gross. So they gave me some more sedatives and I fell back asleep. Well, good thing is, is that I know what I have. But bad thing is, is that it is crohn’s. I have it everywhere except my mouth and esophagus. Later on I had to get and upper GI series with small bowel pass through. Barium is the nastiest stuff ever!!! Even worse than ensure. Well I had been put on lots of medicine it didn’t really seem to help that much. So, I had yet another blood test to see if I could take Imuran. I could, but it still didn’t really help that much. So, next drug in line was Remicade. I had to get a Tuberculosis test to see if I could take Remicade. I could. I was scared because it is an IV. You sit for two to three hours with an IV sticking inside of you to receive the medications. That wasn’t that bad either. As of right now I have had three Remicade treatments and my last one they doubled the dose because that hasn’t really been working all that great. I got a really bad headache that night. With Remicade I get headaches every day. I hate it. Right now it isn’t really helping, but it may have to take some time to work, I don’t know. Well that is all I can remember right now.
