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Hi all, i'm a 36 yr old female and until Easter this year have been very fortunate never to have suffered from any digestion problems or stomach pain whatsoever. Then out of the blue I started to get gastritis that wouldn't go away then a month later I ended up in A&E with suspected appendicitis. After x-rays, ultrasound scans and blood tests I was sent home (even though my CRP was increasing) and told I was ok.
As the pain was still there I went privately and had a CT scan which showed IBD in the ileum and was diagnosed with crohn's disease and was referred to a GI doc to discuss meds. While waiting for my app I went on holiday were I became very ill, I came home (not sure how I got on the plane!!) and had blood tests the following day which showed my CRP was at 280, hence the fact I was brought into hospital and had another CT scan which showed a perforated bowel and a 4 cm abscess.
After 1 week of antibiotics I felt dramatically better and have remained so since being started on pentasa and prednisolone. I have since had several investigations which show thickening and inflammation of the terminal ileum (the rest of the colon/small intestine appears normal) I am currently waiting to have a sb ressection to remove approx 1 ft of the terminal ileum (reluctantly as I feel so well!), however they will not reduce my meds until then.
Thanks for reading :ysmile:
Hi all, i'm a 36 yr old female and until Easter this year have been very fortunate never to have suffered from any digestion problems or stomach pain whatsoever. Then out of the blue I started to get gastritis that wouldn't go away then a month later I ended up in A&E with suspected appendicitis. After x-rays, ultrasound scans and blood tests I was sent home (even though my CRP was increasing) and told I was ok.
As the pain was still there I went privately and had a CT scan which showed IBD in the ileum and was diagnosed with crohn's disease and was referred to a GI doc to discuss meds. While waiting for my app I went on holiday were I became very ill, I came home (not sure how I got on the plane!!) and had blood tests the following day which showed my CRP was at 280, hence the fact I was brought into hospital and had another CT scan which showed a perforated bowel and a 4 cm abscess.
After 1 week of antibiotics I felt dramatically better and have remained so since being started on pentasa and prednisolone. I have since had several investigations which show thickening and inflammation of the terminal ileum (the rest of the colon/small intestine appears normal) I am currently waiting to have a sb ressection to remove approx 1 ft of the terminal ileum (reluctantly as I feel so well!), however they will not reduce my meds until then.
Thanks for reading :ysmile: