okay so a quick recap, so I use to be really into fitness/bodybuilding, i've taken steroids in the past, but i was trying to bulk up and got to around 225 pounds before i started pooping blood (tmi i know), food was running through me, i could eat 5000 calories a day and just crap it out at that point and it was frustrating, this was last year, i thought it was a hemoroid or something but went to the doctors, found out i had crohns, which pretty much ruined my life at the time being seeing as all i cared about was the gym, i'm 24 years old so i guess i got a somewhat late diagnosis, it took bulking up a lot to really trigger it i guess
needless to say i had a bad month from crohns, found out i had crohns, than started on medication which was like methotextrate, (after prednisone) and so on, my crp at one point was 10 and under 5 was normal , so i was a bit scared because i kept searching what high crp could mean and thought the worst, my doctor said he's seen crp over 100 so that made me feel a bit better
lately i started humira ( 5 months ago) and although my CRP is down, it's always been somewhat down regardless of meds.. even when i got put on a medication i stopped taking, the doctor kept saying my crp looked good enough though i wasn't on anything (he didn't know that at the time)
it's been a depressing last year, knowing i can't disgest food and all the time i've wasted in the gym not knowing i had this shit..
my main problem now is blood, i stopped taking humira last week because i feel it does nothing, my crp is under 2, but there's still BLOOD, no matter what, i go to the bathroom, either there's a bit in the stool, or after i wipe the toilet paper is just covered in blood, how do i stop bleeding?
are there any medications that can help specifically bleeding with crohns? my doctor said humira needs more time to work but it's been 5 months and this is depressing as hell, humira is also expensive as hell.
i don't understand how all my inflammation markers can be low, but i can STILL be bleeding? what the shit is going on in my intestines, this disease has already limited me getting anything done in the gym, and now i can't stop the blood, frustrating as hell.
it's bad enough that i think i have kidney problems now too, but all the blood tests literally point to me being anemic.. terribly low iron pointing to blood loss, which i'm guessing is from crohns bleeding
needless to say i had a bad month from crohns, found out i had crohns, than started on medication which was like methotextrate, (after prednisone) and so on, my crp at one point was 10 and under 5 was normal , so i was a bit scared because i kept searching what high crp could mean and thought the worst, my doctor said he's seen crp over 100 so that made me feel a bit better
lately i started humira ( 5 months ago) and although my CRP is down, it's always been somewhat down regardless of meds.. even when i got put on a medication i stopped taking, the doctor kept saying my crp looked good enough though i wasn't on anything (he didn't know that at the time)
it's been a depressing last year, knowing i can't disgest food and all the time i've wasted in the gym not knowing i had this shit..
my main problem now is blood, i stopped taking humira last week because i feel it does nothing, my crp is under 2, but there's still BLOOD, no matter what, i go to the bathroom, either there's a bit in the stool, or after i wipe the toilet paper is just covered in blood, how do i stop bleeding?
are there any medications that can help specifically bleeding with crohns? my doctor said humira needs more time to work but it's been 5 months and this is depressing as hell, humira is also expensive as hell.
i don't understand how all my inflammation markers can be low, but i can STILL be bleeding? what the shit is going on in my intestines, this disease has already limited me getting anything done in the gym, and now i can't stop the blood, frustrating as hell.
it's bad enough that i think i have kidney problems now too, but all the blood tests literally point to me being anemic.. terribly low iron pointing to blood loss, which i'm guessing is from crohns bleeding