Hi guys,
I have a question I was hoping I could ask. I'm not asking for a diagnosis just for some friendly advice. I'm 25 years old and since mid August I have been suffering from horrible abdominal pain, gas, occasional bouts of diarrhea which seem to come in periods of 4 day blocks every couple of weeks, mouth soars (Which I've never had before) exhaustion, nausea, chills and a couple of hot sweats. The pain originally started around my upper abdomen but has seemed to settle in the middle now. I went to the doctor and they did blood test and stool sample and checked for giardia, infection, ciliac etc but found nothing. I saw two gi specialists and at first they thought it was an ulcer so they put me on ulcer meds but after 2 weeks I still had all the symptoms. At that point they still thought it was an ulcer so they did an upper endoscopy which they found nothing with the scope but did find mild inflammation in the biopsy they took. Unfortunately I had to leave the country for work and won't be back for a year so the only thing the doc could do was to say take antacids for two months. After talking to a friend they suggested the possibility of crohns and suggested that I should try to get a ct scan or a colonoscopy. I'm currently living in Europe and med care is expensive.
So my question is does this sound like possible crohns in which I need to keep pursuing medical advice/attention or does this sound like it could be something else completely and I'd only be wasting money to seek further tests??
I have a question I was hoping I could ask. I'm not asking for a diagnosis just for some friendly advice. I'm 25 years old and since mid August I have been suffering from horrible abdominal pain, gas, occasional bouts of diarrhea which seem to come in periods of 4 day blocks every couple of weeks, mouth soars (Which I've never had before) exhaustion, nausea, chills and a couple of hot sweats. The pain originally started around my upper abdomen but has seemed to settle in the middle now. I went to the doctor and they did blood test and stool sample and checked for giardia, infection, ciliac etc but found nothing. I saw two gi specialists and at first they thought it was an ulcer so they put me on ulcer meds but after 2 weeks I still had all the symptoms. At that point they still thought it was an ulcer so they did an upper endoscopy which they found nothing with the scope but did find mild inflammation in the biopsy they took. Unfortunately I had to leave the country for work and won't be back for a year so the only thing the doc could do was to say take antacids for two months. After talking to a friend they suggested the possibility of crohns and suggested that I should try to get a ct scan or a colonoscopy. I'm currently living in Europe and med care is expensive.
So my question is does this sound like possible crohns in which I need to keep pursuing medical advice/attention or does this sound like it could be something else completely and I'd only be wasting money to seek further tests??
