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Hi everyone. I'm a 25-year-old female.
On the day after Christmas, I started to get a weird stomach ache like I had not felt before. It wasn't nausea, but more like sharp pains, and I wasn't yet on my period. I slowly started realizing that it was usually (though not always) triggered by food. Then, this past weekend, I woke up with a fever that steadily rose, and when I tried to get out of bed, there was a pull in my stomach so sharp it made me cry. I decided to go to the emergency room.
I spent four days in the hospital on antibiotics, took two CAT scans, had a colonoscopy, and a biopsy. Doctors still can't give me a proper diagnosis. Right now they have me on steroids (Prednisone) and after the consultation I had today, they want me to only take one pill instead of two for five days and then see how my stomach reacts with no medication at all.
I guess I'm just confused because I'm reading up on Crohn's and I don't have so many of the symptoms I'm seeing... no diarrhea, no blood in the stool, no tiredness or aches, no fever (except that one day I went to the emergency room), and my appetite is still going very strong. Ever since those four days in the hospital, I've been able to eat everything with no pain (though I have been staying away from the 'trigger' things to be safe.. like no nuts, no seeds, no high fiber foods).
If I DO have Crohn's (a mild case, I'm sure, if I do) then would this be a remission? I'm also wary of my doctor because he immediately tried to put me on Humira when I saw him today, before even asking me ANYTHING about how I've been since the hospital visit (pains, stool, reaction to medication, food log). And I don't understand shoving Humira on me when they can't for sure say it's Crohn's. Makes me think it's just a tactic to get money.
Did any of you start out this way?
On the day after Christmas, I started to get a weird stomach ache like I had not felt before. It wasn't nausea, but more like sharp pains, and I wasn't yet on my period. I slowly started realizing that it was usually (though not always) triggered by food. Then, this past weekend, I woke up with a fever that steadily rose, and when I tried to get out of bed, there was a pull in my stomach so sharp it made me cry. I decided to go to the emergency room.
I spent four days in the hospital on antibiotics, took two CAT scans, had a colonoscopy, and a biopsy. Doctors still can't give me a proper diagnosis. Right now they have me on steroids (Prednisone) and after the consultation I had today, they want me to only take one pill instead of two for five days and then see how my stomach reacts with no medication at all.
I guess I'm just confused because I'm reading up on Crohn's and I don't have so many of the symptoms I'm seeing... no diarrhea, no blood in the stool, no tiredness or aches, no fever (except that one day I went to the emergency room), and my appetite is still going very strong. Ever since those four days in the hospital, I've been able to eat everything with no pain (though I have been staying away from the 'trigger' things to be safe.. like no nuts, no seeds, no high fiber foods).
If I DO have Crohn's (a mild case, I'm sure, if I do) then would this be a remission? I'm also wary of my doctor because he immediately tried to put me on Humira when I saw him today, before even asking me ANYTHING about how I've been since the hospital visit (pains, stool, reaction to medication, food log). And I don't understand shoving Humira on me when they can't for sure say it's Crohn's. Makes me think it's just a tactic to get money.
Did any of you start out this way?
