Hey, I've been diagnosed with Crohn's disease for about two years now, but it would explain some bloody bowel movements I had when I was a kid years before that.
At first I was just a bit gassy and my guts would make some crazy noises, I was at college in this time so went it got to the point the 60ft classroom all turned to stare at the grumbling beast that was my colon I decided to go to the doctors, really nothing at this point, just a small ignore-able stomach ache, and some funny noises.
They thought I was constipated, so they suggested I eat more fibre (AWWGH!) and gave me some orange powdered mix to drink called Fybogel ((AAAARRWGH!))
So after changing my cereal to basically rabbit food and having that and a glass of the Fybogel for breakfast, that's all I could stomach for the day.
This went on for some time, it got to the point I couldn't bare to swallow anything. But somehow I managed to go to work and college, luckily they were really understanding about all of it in the end.
Eventually I was throwing up so much I tore something in my stomach or throat and threw up some blood, along with whatever else was in my stomach and passed out on the bathroom floor at college.
Rest of it's pretty boring, I sit in hospital after someone came and gave me a kick to wake up and they decide maybe it's crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis and since all the fibre has been basically killing me, they guessed Crohn's and gave me steroids to hopefully bring me back from being a ghoul.
Now I'm better, my symptoms have never gone away but with the 150mg Azathioprine, 2G Mesalazine, and Metoclopramide to keep the nausea at bay I ended up putting on around 3 stone in the last year from that picture. They don't want me on cortical steroids for whatever reason, despite them being the best thing I have ever had, liver damage or no, I'd rather live symptom free, guess they don't see it like that.
At first I was just a bit gassy and my guts would make some crazy noises, I was at college in this time so went it got to the point the 60ft classroom all turned to stare at the grumbling beast that was my colon I decided to go to the doctors, really nothing at this point, just a small ignore-able stomach ache, and some funny noises.
They thought I was constipated, so they suggested I eat more fibre (AWWGH!) and gave me some orange powdered mix to drink called Fybogel ((AAAARRWGH!))
So after changing my cereal to basically rabbit food and having that and a glass of the Fybogel for breakfast, that's all I could stomach for the day.
This went on for some time, it got to the point I couldn't bare to swallow anything. But somehow I managed to go to work and college, luckily they were really understanding about all of it in the end.
Eventually I was throwing up so much I tore something in my stomach or throat and threw up some blood, along with whatever else was in my stomach and passed out on the bathroom floor at college.
Rest of it's pretty boring, I sit in hospital after someone came and gave me a kick to wake up and they decide maybe it's crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis and since all the fibre has been basically killing me, they guessed Crohn's and gave me steroids to hopefully bring me back from being a ghoul.
Now I'm better, my symptoms have never gone away but with the 150mg Azathioprine, 2G Mesalazine, and Metoclopramide to keep the nausea at bay I ended up putting on around 3 stone in the last year from that picture. They don't want me on cortical steroids for whatever reason, despite them being the best thing I have ever had, liver damage or no, I'd rather live symptom free, guess they don't see it like that.
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