New kind of pain...is it common?

[Cardinals88]

I have only been diagnosed with Crohn's for a little under 6 months. During this time I have had waves of abdominal pain, sharp knee bending pain, and regualar old stomach discomfort. I have recently started a new kind of pain and it isn't going away. It feels like it's in my abdominal muscles themselves. It started anytime I tried to use my stomach muscles to sit up or turn I would get a dull constant pain until I stoped moving. Now it is there weither I am moving or not. If I sit still it will usually subside but not all the time. My lower right side of my stomach is also supersensitive to touch and my clothes rubbing on the area cause pain as well. If anyone else has any experience with anything like this I would be so grateful to hear if you had found any answers to the cause or if it was just one more great side effect of this disease. Thank you!

 

[Amaze]

The joint pain sounds like arthritis. It also sounds like you're relapsing. Tell ur doc all this

 

[Cardinals88]

No it's not joint pain. It's actual musclular pain. Another way to describe it is like having muscle cramps in your abs all day and never leaving. Except its not as painful and sharper.

 

[CTB86]

They say crohns give you arthritis like symptoms. I have knee pain at times, it feels like my knee is tensed. So one day I couldn't take it, I went to the hospital and they exasperated fluid from the knee area. My elbow has actually locked up on me once when I was sleeping. After that I've noticed if I have a flare I can't straighten my elbow as much. The Lower side of your stomach is probably where your crohns is more active, I usually have more pain there as well that they always have to check if it's not my appendix. I hope that soon they find the medication that's right for you, good luck!

 

[therainbowrevolts]

It's interesting you mention that...one of the things that happens to me all the time is if I sit upright or stand for too long, I get a cramping pain right around my stomach (seems to be in my ab muscles) that starts fairly mild but ends up getting more and more severe until I can lay down, then it slowly fades. It can come back pretty quickly if I don't rest for long enough, though. It keeps me from even being able to be at the computer too long. I hadn't really seen that around as a symptom so I wasn't sure if it was a Crohn's thing or a you're-super-inactive sort of thing. Not sure if this sounds like what you're going through or not!

 

[Cardinals88]

Thanks for the posts. I really appreciate the help.

 

[Emma A]

Hey Cardinals 88,

are you going through a flare up? since your only diagnosed (like me only a year) i was feeling the exact same as you are, its true about the arthritis like symptoms mine arn't as bad but its still a disaster in the gym when you keep hearing your knees cracking

the pains in your tummy are more than likely your going through a flare up and its still not 100% this mixed with bloating, lower back pain. its sometimes my lower right side too and its real tender that sometimes i wear loose clothing just to give it a bit of breathing space, sometimes it can effect the center of your rib cage to which its like a bruised feeling.
id say your real tender and it effects your muscles, your ability to move around as much and sleep, just keep at your meds, i have only joined this site too, its like one big family and everyone is so helpful and it makes us crohns heads feel better too p.s you aint alone

Emma

 

[CrohnsChicago]

Another thing to think about is that we actually do strain our muscles from all of the frequent stomach contractions when we are constantly going to the bathroom, bending over or whatever other type of strenuous movements you do that involve the abdomen. You would think we had just finished 500 sit-ups given the discomfort that is felt. When you rest is when your muscles can relax and the tension eases because they aren't being used.

Thus a simple, but completely possible explanation to consider would be muscle soreness.

 

[DGH]

I have only been diagnosed with Crohn's for a little under 6 months. During this time I have had waves of abdominal pain, sharp knee bending pain, and regualar old stomach discomfort. I have recently started a new kind of pain and it isn't going away. It feels like it's in my abdominal muscles themselves. It started anytime I tried to use my stomach muscles to sit up or turn I would get a dull constant pain until I stoped moving. Now it is there weither I am moving or not. If I sit still it will usually subside but not all the time. My lower right side of my stomach is also supersensitive to touch and my clothes rubbing on the area cause pain as well. If anyone else has any experience with anything like this I would be so grateful to hear if you had found any answers to the cause or if it was just one more great side effect of this disease. Thank you!

yes, that is common. I've had crohns for 18 years. If you haven"t yet, please have a colonoscopy and upper as well as I had those same conditions BEFORE I was diagnosed. I had to find out I had crohns after exploratory surgery found a small bowel perforation that nearly killed me! Don't consider it a side effect until it's been checked! good luck....DGH