Hey everyone, I'm a newb here and I'm happy to have found this because I can relate. I was diagnosed with crohn's in January during high school exams. Before I was diagnosed, I had trouble at school because I wouldn't sleep at nights due to stomach pain, I'd be constantly tired and it was impossible to concentrate. I'd do bad on tests for stupid reasons like forgetting sig figs, etc. Try explaining to your teachers that you have trouble because you can't sleep. Their immediate response: "stop partying". Still, after being diagnosed, teachers never understood what I was going through. With no one to turn to at school for help and seeing my grades go down, I was seriously afraid that I wouldn't get into university. One teacher even had a talk with me to discourage me from applying to university, saying that I didn't have what it takes to go there and I wouldn't survive. From that point, I decided to pull myself together, I re-took a class to up my grades (passed with 95%) and managed to get into the program I wanted.
I am currently attending university in electrical engineering. I still find it very hard to study, I do feel tired all the time, but I am passing all my classes so far.
I guess my message from all this is to never let anyone or anything get in the way of your success. It is possible to get what you want even with this awful disease.
As for coffee, I still drink it but in moderation and I like it black. Too much coffee = a lot of air wanting to evacuate at once.
) yet I always always make stupid mistakes on tests. Some people have told me its just anxiety but I don't think so, I think its a lack of my brain getting what it needs.....anyone else feel this way?
