Periods, pains, heavy bleeding

[rosiebush]

I don't actually have crohns myself, but my daughter Rebecca has just been diagnosed.

She has for years been treated for heavy and painful periods, she was put on contraceptive pill at 14 after everything else attempted to ease or manage her pains failed to work,
Rebecca was also seeing the doctor with suspected lactose intolerance. (Dr's diagnosis not mine)
As things went on and she seemed to become unwell, in pain and on the loo for hours almost after every time she ate, eventually after referal to a gastro consultant, endo and colon scopes she was diagnosed with crohns.

During one of her periods her pain was soooooo bad she was admitted tom hospital and given diamorphine for the pain.

Her contraceptive has been changed to the injection in the hope to stop the periods and pains.

Is this normal train of events with periods and crohns?

Rosie

 

[stupidbody!]

I'm not sure if that's normal with Crohn's. I sure hope not! For 9 months before I got pregnant I had heavy bleeding, intense cramps for most of the day on the first day (like labor), loose stools, and throwing up. It was a relief to get pregnant. I didn't develop Crohn's symptoms until late in the pregnancy though and wasn't diagnosed until nearly a year after that. After having a baby periods are more normal, but Crohn's was obviously a lot worse. I hope the doctors can get her periods more normalized. Loosing tons of blood every month isn't a good thing. My iron was low because of it.

 

[lookame]

She should gt checked out for endometriousis. It's a conditon hich her uterine lining grows outside of the uterus, every month when her urtrus sheds, so does the parts outside of her uterus...compare it to something like having 3 periods all at once. It can grows along her intestine which causes crohns-like symptoms(making her crohns disease THAT much worse) Unfortunatly the only way to diagnose it is by having surgery.

My symptoms are worse during my periods, though my actual period and pain in terms of period pains are actually virtually nonexistant.