Due to a family history of colon cancer colonoscopies became a necessary evil. I put it off for so long but 4 years ago I decided I'd get it done. My doctor saw evidence of mild crohns, I thought he was crazy. I looked up the symptoms and felt I had none of them. I'm fat and suffer from constipation. Earlier this year I had trouble swallowing and when back to my GI for an endoscopy, he discovered so many ulcers and swelling that he decided to do the colonoscopy, then a pill cam. He was right the first time. I suffer from serious constipation, stomach pain, and many of those other ugly symptoms we have but I'm still overweight. Along with crohns I have degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis, bradycardia - I have a cardiac pacemaker. Everything I suffer from is genetic - thus the crappy.gene.pool name. I'm on entocort and nexium right now. Due to side effects my doctor doesn't want me on some of the other meds. The entocort seems to help a little but still the constipation is horrible for me. I can go for days without going, I can take several doses of Miralax and NOTHING happens it usually takes a glycerin supository but even then it doesn't help completely but it gives me some. No one understands, well except the people here will understand and my family tries very hard to understand. oo: