Slightly embarassed - Symptoms linked with cycle?

[Sparky]

OK, feeling slightly awkward about this thread, but still...

My consultant tells me categorically that menstrual cycle does not have any impact on Chrohns symptoms. It can't happen, according to him.

However...why is it that just as I get PMT, I get gut pain? And then I have 7-10 days of unusual/different gut activity? I don't always make the connection, but this month it's been really clear to me - a specific pain I don't get any other time, combined with a different pattern of BM.

I'm asking really because I want to know if it's me that's weird, or if it's my consultant who's talking out of his textbook!

 

[My Butt Hurts]

Lemme guess - your consultant has never had a period before, right??
Several people on here have mentioned conections with symptoms and their cycle. I get a bit more poopy-ish (for lack of a better word) during my period. If you do a search for it, you might find what others have said.
Really, is this disease so well defined that they know how to treat it for most of us? Pretty much not. All of our symptoms are different, we all react differently to medications, and foods, I doubt anyone can even prove if the cycle hads anything to do with it or not. We know our bodies better than pur doctors do. If you think it is effected by it, it probably is!
And don't feel awkward for a second. That's what we're here for.

 

[mommy1st]

My Crohns always acts us when I get my period. Since I am finished having kids I was considering talking to my gyno about having a partial hysterectomy just to my uterus removed. It may sound extreme but I want to feel good all the time. I am fine all month but when I get my period I can't even lay flat in bed I have so much pressure and diarrhea I am up all night going to the bathroom. I have to sleep in the recliner just to take some of the pressure off.

 

[teeny5]

My periods affect me too. Get cramping the week before and often diarrhea too.

 

[katiesue1506]

My Crohn's symptoms are also WAY amplified when I'm on my period. Worse diarrhea and more frequency. Also I get more Crohn's pains as well as the normal menstrual cramps (occasionally). Noticed I'm also a lot more fatigued... I dunno if its the blood loss or if its just the hormones.

 

[jed]

i have no uterus, i cant join in on this conversation.

carry on.

 

[mrs. vr]

This last time, I was feeling crummy to start with, and I know the inflammation was up because i was having joint pains. I had the WORST CRAMPS EVER. I usually don't get them at all, or very very mild. This was BAAAAAAAAAAD. I also had the potty issues. I can't imagine it's not related.

 

[merrywidow]

i waas gonna say that pen!!! we had a thread about peroids and crohns a few weeks ago. and apperntly i am going throught he change, even though i am only 39 (just!!) regards sharon x

 

[AgB621]

Long before my Crohn's diagnosis, I'd get diarrhea with my period. Whether or not it's Crohn's related is unclear. But it looks like every girl here says the same, and even if a doctor insists there can be no connection, people know their bodies better than a doctor does.

 

[Crohns08]

I'm not sure if it's pain from crohn's or just cramping, but I've noticed a difference.

 

[Sparky]

Thanks all, glad it's not my imagination

 

[ladyB]

How Ironic for this post to come at my worst time, and yes I am in pain from it...again! Hot oatmeal again! LOL

Maybe all the crohnnies are cycling together.
I agree periods are a pain...(pun unintended, but let's just leave it in).
I'd give anything to not feel the pain in my back right now.

 

[mommy1st]

Got mine too can't sleep lying flat have to sleep in recliner again. I'll probably wake up with a stiff neck oh joy

 

[My Butt Hurts]

Got mine today!
We ARE on the same cycle!
How about you, jed??

I almost crapped my pants yesterday, and I had to leave a class today to run across the hall. Proof that I'm worse on my cycle? Possibly. I just thought I was feeling a teeny bit better 2 and 3 days ago.

 

[teeny5]

i have no uterus, i cant join in on this conversation.

carry on.

I swear my husband gets PMS even though he doesn't have a uterus...so there is hope for you!

 

[ladyB]

Teeny, mine too, but his seems to last forever...lol

 

[Babe123]

my boyfriend has constant PMS.. hese such a stress head


and ofcourse theyre both connected.. a man cant talk about what he knows nothing about. i have to go the toilet alot more during that time and i get far worse cramps.. i cant even movewith some of them
x

 

[BWS1982]

i have no uterus, i cant join in on this conversation.

carry on.

Your hysterectomy is of no discussion here, please, move on.

Actually, to put the record straight, men actually have a "cycle", I'm not joking. Their hormones do cycle and they have a "male PMS" as well, I've seen it several places. This is a bit on it...SEE WE CAN DO IT TOO. Now, every occasion of ME acting up "I'm PMSing, leave me the **** alone or I'll curb stomp your sorry ***!" is my out.

http://www.local6.com/health/1769841/detail.html

 

[drew_wymore]

Not that this helps the matter any but just like Jed and Benson I lack a uterus =\ but my ex-girlfriend said she noticed that her stool was much looser during her period so there is probably a connection.

 

[jed]

dont forget, we know all about stomach cramps

 

[ladyB]

Pen, they also don't have to worry about running into us at the corner market.....lol

 

[jed]

Pen, they also don't have to worry about running into us at the corner market.....lol

i dont get it?

 

[mommy1st]

Are you serious

 

[jed]

:embarrassed: yup

 

[ladyB]

Jed, any one of the guys of this forum can write whatever or go into whatever thread they want withou the blushing that would become them if they said those thingsand then ran into us face to face at the corner market....or can you keep a straight face?......lol

 

[AgB621]

dont forget, we know all about stomach cramps

I'm not sure, cramps from getting your period are unlike any other cramps in existence. Not necessarily worse, just different!

 

[jed]

I'm not sure, cramps from getting your period are unlike any other cramps in existence. Not necessarily worse, just different!

are they even better than those pass out crohns cramps? they're awesome!


and now i get it LadyB, and yes i can keep a staright face, very straight. somewhere along the line i picked up an amazing ability to do that, and to lie

 

[ladyB]

Why, I, never lie.


:whistleinnocently:

 

[mommy1st]

I never get period cramps never had them, but I get crohns pains when I get my period. I think Crohns pains are much worse then any kind of period pain.

 

[pb4]

Menstral cycles most definitely have an impact on IBD as well as IBS, any Dr. that doesn't agree should go back to medical school...every doc be it a colon and rectom surgeon, GI, GP have all stated to me that there is most definintely a connection simply from the hormonal fluctuations.

 

[AgB621]

Crohn's pains are probably worse than period pains, but before I went on the pill, I had cramps so bad I got weak and shaky and nearly fainted. I had to mark in my calender when I expected to get my period so I didn't make any plans. Crohn's pains are worse, but period pains can still make me curl up in a ball and whimper for a few hours.

 

[pb4]

Thank you! If I remember correctly you are a Nurse Practitioner with crudentials just a kick away from a doctor? We needed someone here to say that!

You're welcome, but you may have me confused with someone eles, not a nurse, not even close to being in the medical profession other than the fact that I've been dealing with CD constantly for the entire 17 yrs I've had it now...maybe with doing so much research I should have some kind of medical credentials by now LOL.