Hello everyone, my name is Amanda. I am a 35 year old woman that has dealt stomach issues my entire life. As a teenager I was hospitalized for blockages, never had surgery but was always NPO for a week or two. As a young adult, I always fought with either diarrhea or constipation but I could never understand what it was. Three years ago I had a gastric bypass and I was fine, I went from 260 to 125-130. Last summer I had horrible pain that I had never experienced before. Went to the hospital and I had a serious blockage with a strangulation incisional hernia. My intestines were dying and they thought I would have to have a resection but they made it in just in time to save them. Fast forward three months and I have another blockage and hernia in the same spot. My surgeon just knew I was gonna come out with a colostomy bag but I didn't. She said something was differently wrong with me because my intestines were so inflamed that she had to take pictures to teach with. I was so gassy and nothing worked and although I was not eating, I was still blocked and not even Co-Lyte was working to clear me up. I stayed in the hospital for three weeks, ICU for 8 days and I came out still sick. About 3 months ago things changed, I went from severe constipation to extreme diarrhea. My intestines felt raw and anything other than hot tea burned as it went down. My stomach blowed up like I was 7 months pregnant, so my PCM put me on Pentasa because she said we had to try something until I was able to get back in to see the GI doctor. I had a small bowel follow through and the results was Crohns. It has been a struggle since then just to keep weight on and be able to eat. If I get to 130 I'm happy but I stay around 118-125 now, no matter what I do. They left me on the Pentasa until my biopsy which is tomorrow but I just don't know what to think. Should prepping for a colonscopy be this painful? I first had to take 4 ducolax pills yesterday and today I'm drinking the C0-Lyte but the pills almost sent me to the hospital. My stomach hurts like crazy. Can someone please tell me this wont last forever and what I should expect tomorrow. Sorry if I'm all over the place, I'm so weak and tired from pooping and pain.