Hi All,
I'm new to the Forum. I was diagnosed with Crohn's 8 years ago.. After a three year battle to get to remission my disease was pretty calm. I was at a healthy weight and was able to eat just about anything. Stomach pains and D on occassion, but that's about it. About a year ago we were preparing to move to our new duty station and I started getting mouth ulcers. I didn't know what it was until I researched the sympton online. BTW I google way more than I should ;-).. After arriving at our new duty station I starting the process of a new GI doc. This particular military Dr was quite inexperienced with Crohn's and it made me feel uncomfortable. I started having back pain, joint pain and terrible fatigue. Labs were normal just a tad vitamin D Def.. I started having sharp pains in my stomach whenever I tried to eat anything and I eventually became constipated. I was only passing mucus and small pebble-like stool. I requested a change in GI and he started with all the normal labs and a colonoscopy. The results showed severe ileocecal valve inflammation, but all the biopsies were benign. Since the colonoscopy I have had the weirdest of headaches. Daily! No really sharp pain, but aches constantly. OTC meds not really working. I'm still waiting for my follow up appt which was scheduled a whole 2 months after the scope! Never has headaches with Crohn's before and I'm getting extremely impatient.. Thanks for your ear!! Lol..
I'm new to the Forum. I was diagnosed with Crohn's 8 years ago.. After a three year battle to get to remission my disease was pretty calm. I was at a healthy weight and was able to eat just about anything. Stomach pains and D on occassion, but that's about it. About a year ago we were preparing to move to our new duty station and I started getting mouth ulcers. I didn't know what it was until I researched the sympton online. BTW I google way more than I should ;-).. After arriving at our new duty station I starting the process of a new GI doc. This particular military Dr was quite inexperienced with Crohn's and it made me feel uncomfortable. I started having back pain, joint pain and terrible fatigue. Labs were normal just a tad vitamin D Def.. I started having sharp pains in my stomach whenever I tried to eat anything and I eventually became constipated. I was only passing mucus and small pebble-like stool. I requested a change in GI and he started with all the normal labs and a colonoscopy. The results showed severe ileocecal valve inflammation, but all the biopsies were benign. Since the colonoscopy I have had the weirdest of headaches. Daily! No really sharp pain, but aches constantly. OTC meds not really working. I'm still waiting for my follow up appt which was scheduled a whole 2 months after the scope! Never has headaches with Crohn's before and I'm getting extremely impatient.. Thanks for your ear!! Lol..
