Hello everyone,
I have been dealing with crohns disease related symptoms for about 2 years now, but was not diagnosed with the disease until this last December. I found this site and was hoping to be able to get some questions answered and just have a place to talk about my crohns. To make a very long story short, I have had four surgeries to deal with fistulas that have formed as a result of my crohns and really havent gotten a reprieve from them. I find it difficult to walk, painful most of the time to just get around, and its really getting to me as I find I am just getting slower and weaker. I went from being able to do some impressive martial arts techniques to having to hobble along for the most part over these last two years. I am currently on prednisone, flagyl and sulfasalazine as my medications.
Sorry for that wall of text, I guess what I am really trying to get at is, does it ever get better? Has anyone with fistulas seen them healed and in what sort of time frame? And how could I go about dealing with the depression I get when I just sit and think about crohns and what its done to my life. Any help would be pretty much the best news I have heard in a while.
Thank you.
18 and currently attending college.
I have been dealing with crohns disease related symptoms for about 2 years now, but was not diagnosed with the disease until this last December. I found this site and was hoping to be able to get some questions answered and just have a place to talk about my crohns. To make a very long story short, I have had four surgeries to deal with fistulas that have formed as a result of my crohns and really havent gotten a reprieve from them. I find it difficult to walk, painful most of the time to just get around, and its really getting to me as I find I am just getting slower and weaker. I went from being able to do some impressive martial arts techniques to having to hobble along for the most part over these last two years. I am currently on prednisone, flagyl and sulfasalazine as my medications.
Sorry for that wall of text, I guess what I am really trying to get at is, does it ever get better? Has anyone with fistulas seen them healed and in what sort of time frame? And how could I go about dealing with the depression I get when I just sit and think about crohns and what its done to my life. Any help would be pretty much the best news I have heard in a while.
Thank you.
18 and currently attending college.