Hey guys I am in a lot of pain today. I have called the doctor and am waiting for a call back but I won't be able to visit him until next week. It first started with a dull pain between, here is where it becomes detailed, my anus and my scrotum or the taint region. Then a few days ago I got a sharp pain in the area. Then yesterday I got the same but it was after I went to the bathroom. Now I have this pain that has lasted me an hour and a half and I am getting very worried. My pain is dull but of high intensity and when I turn wrong it gets very sharp. I am confused about what it may be. Has anyone had symptoms like this before.
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hi jeff..
i just wondered if it might be worth ringing for some advice today... i know things can get twisted and strangulated in a chaps nether regions - although i dont know what the symptoms are.
here in the UK we have a 24 hour NHS Direct telephone advice line - if you have something similar where you are, it might be an idea to give them a call.
hope you're ok soon.
dingbat.
i just wondered if it might be worth ringing for some advice today... i know things can get twisted and strangulated in a chaps nether regions - although i dont know what the symptoms are.
here in the UK we have a 24 hour NHS Direct telephone advice line - if you have something similar where you are, it might be an idea to give them a call.
hope you're ok soon.
dingbat.
Thanks I don't know what it is and my doctor still has not called me. I am getting really nervous and I don't know who else to call. My mom is at work and my dad is away on a business trip. I just know that right now all I can seem to do is to pray and come onto the internet to forget the pain right now.
Thanks for your quick reply you don't know what it means to me
Thanks for your quick reply you don't know what it means to me
Kev
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Hey jeff... Yeah, unexplained pains can cause more worry than the pains themselves... it's the not knowing that eats at one. doesn't the school have a nurse or something similar? somewhere where you can slip in quickly and get a professional opinion on this? Even if you just called? explained the situation, sought out their opinion whether you should see them, wait for your doc, or head to the ER (just in case). Figure his/her professional take on the subject would be better than any of our (even your) wild assed guesses (sorry, no pun intended). They may even know of a 'walk in' clinic nearby where a student can get examined under student insurance or private insurance by a doctor ASAP.
Just my thoughts on the subject. with new or unusual pain, figure the best bet is to have it checked out by a medically trained professional, even if it's in a less than opportune location.. I mean, sure, it'll be a little embarrassing, but figure finding out what it is, what to do about it, HAS to be better than not knowing.
Just my thoughts on the subject. with new or unusual pain, figure the best bet is to have it checked out by a medically trained professional, even if it's in a less than opportune location.. I mean, sure, it'll be a little embarrassing, but figure finding out what it is, what to do about it, HAS to be better than not knowing.
Thanks guys for your words. I am not at school right now and have no way to leave the house at the moment unless I drive to the place but I don't really know how to get there and when I am in pain I am not a very good driver. The doctor's office receptionist called me back and now I am just waiting for them to call me back again to see what they want to do. I think I am just going to have to wait out the weekend and see my GI on Monday, which sucks. I'm getting some really strange looking species in my stool right now that hurts when it comes out and floats on the top. I know I am making it worse right now by worrying but it can be so hard to not worry.
Thanks for the support guys
Thanks for the support guys
i think most of us know that worry jeff - and its so hard to keep it under control when you have pain, and you have no-one with you at the time to bounce ideas and thoughts off.
thank goodness this forum is here - there's always someone around to talk to
i think kev made some really excellent points there. sometimes the pain causes us to worry so much, and imagine so much, that we feel worse than necessary... once you know what you're facing, its easier. in fact, once you've passed the responsibility onto a doctor, the worry often eases somewhat.
i hope the surgery does get back to you soon, and suggest something helpful. it would be a shame to make you wait and be anxious until next week, if you could be seen today, or at least have a telephone chat with a doctor.
my best wishes to you jeff - i hope things settle quickly for you.
thank goodness this forum is here - there's always someone around to talk to
i think kev made some really excellent points there. sometimes the pain causes us to worry so much, and imagine so much, that we feel worse than necessary... once you know what you're facing, its easier. in fact, once you've passed the responsibility onto a doctor, the worry often eases somewhat.
i hope the surgery does get back to you soon, and suggest something helpful. it would be a shame to make you wait and be anxious until next week, if you could be seen today, or at least have a telephone chat with a doctor.
my best wishes to you jeff - i hope things settle quickly for you.
Kev
Senior Member
quick thought... but (WARNING: GROSS TALK AHEAD) floating stool usually indicate higher concentration of fat... Have you been eating a lot of fatty foods lately? They can play havoc with the old GI system, and could cause temporary problems with gall bladder, pancreas, that sort of thing. anyone who has had a g/b attack knows what i'm talking about. that alone could change the 'nature' of your bm's.
I haven't really eaten much lately but it probably has a lot of fat in it. I started drinking ensures and after that is when I have felt the worst. Quick question though, has anyone seen in their stool what looks like a sponge. Mine was like a pink sponge and it was really painful to get out. I was just wondering if anyone has experienced this.
Thanks again
Thanks again
Kev
Senior Member
WARNING! GROSS ALERT Welll, there was a time I was throwing out significant blood clots.. they resembled pink jelly fish. and they floated. ranged in size from smaller than a dime to about the size of a CDN dollar coin (if that helps you out). I was having a problem convincing my GI at the time that I was throwing clots AND losing a really alarming amount of blood, so I took photos (digital camera), showed that to my GP, he called my GI, that got him to take a fresh look inside me, that got me my urgent/emergent status for a resection. I will shut up now so folks can tease me about taking those 'gnarly' photos, OK?
Kev
Senior Member
OK, so I'm going to go off on a tangent here, but bear with me, I think it will make a little sense. I don't carry photos of my BM's in my wallet. I've got photos of the kids, but that's pretty much the extent of it. I realize that it sounds totally off of the wall to take photos of something we all feel so.. uncomfortable talking about. One of the damnedest parts of this disease is that it usually involves gross stuff. Things we'd never before talk about openly. That being said, I saw some very unusual things, some very disturbing & alarming things... And I'm not talking about BM's per se. There was some, usually very little. Mostly what came out of me wasn't fecal matter, it was mostly blood, and in significant quantities. That had me worried, esp. since my doctors thought I was over-estimating the quantities. Then the blood clots started appearing. So I resorted to the photos. Crazy me. But it worked. And, it demonstrated to all concerned that something - unexpected - was REALLY occuring. What was that? Well, my disease spread extremely rapidly. And it has happened more than once. I wasn't prepared for that, the doctors sure werent' expecting it... And it has happened on more than one occasion. Like, before my resection, it grew rapidly, so rapidly that when the photos convinced the GI to take a 2nd look, he was alarmed/surprised at how fast it had developed and spread. That was the 1st time. That resulted in the urgent resection. They did that, and to all intents and purposes, after my 'resection', I was completely free and totally void of any sign of it. how void? so void, his (my GI, professor of GI at the univ) professional medical opinion was that I was 'cured'. Yet, within 2 months, it was back, and it had spread to the entire remainder of my colon (except for the site of the incision). I dunno if that is typical, or extremely rare. But as I think about it, it sort of makes sense. Why? well, I'd heard something about tooth decay. They did a study on what happens if you use those anti-bacterial pastes to erradicate the bad bacteria that decay your teeth. Thing of it is, it destroys both good and bad bacteria. Problem is, the bad bacteria come back faster. In the studies, the bad bacteria start bouncing back immediately, while the 'good' take at least 30 minutes to bounce back. think about it.. normally, the bad guys are introduced in an area where they are significantly outnumbered. the good guys have the home turf, they have the immune system on their side, so a 'bad' bug has to have a lot of fight in them, just to survive, hey, just to exist.
so, we get this illness.. the bad guys are still outnumbered, but the immune system is no longer fighting them. think between the nasty nature of the bad guys and the immune system, the 'candy' ass good guys don't last very long. I was in some pretty nasty bar fights when I was young and foolish, learned the nice guys don't always win.. And like it or not, there's a bar fight going on way down deep in our insides. So, my point? Next time I see something 'bizarre' come out of me, something that alarms me, something that worries me, my 1st move is to grab the camera, capture proof of it for those dismissive doctors, AND I don't care who thinks i'm crazy. I'm fighting this disease to win, at least a draw... I don't want to be on the losing side. So I refuse to pull my punches.
Am I crazy? Sure enuff.. Am I a fighter? You bet your ass. I'm betting mine!!!
so, we get this illness.. the bad guys are still outnumbered, but the immune system is no longer fighting them. think between the nasty nature of the bad guys and the immune system, the 'candy' ass good guys don't last very long. I was in some pretty nasty bar fights when I was young and foolish, learned the nice guys don't always win.. And like it or not, there's a bar fight going on way down deep in our insides. So, my point? Next time I see something 'bizarre' come out of me, something that alarms me, something that worries me, my 1st move is to grab the camera, capture proof of it for those dismissive doctors, AND I don't care who thinks i'm crazy. I'm fighting this disease to win, at least a draw... I don't want to be on the losing side. So I refuse to pull my punches.
Am I crazy? Sure enuff.. Am I a fighter? You bet your ass. I'm betting mine!!!
Thanks Kev so much for all of your support. Today I woke up with a dream about going to the bathroom so I woke up and went, I was fine then but now I keep having pain. I'm trying to see where exactly the nerves are in that region because I figure the only way I could possibly have shooting pain from one side of my butt to my underside region is if I hurt a nerve. I found out that when diagnosed I had an abscess and it never got spaded to heal it. I'm almost wondering if I can sue because I have been dealing with butt pains of various degrees ever since being diagnosed. This time I figure I'll be ahead of the doctor and will tell him I think he is doing something wrong if I believe so. That's where I'm at today and I would go to the emergency if I had any confidence in the medical staff there but most of them just have no knowledge of Crohn's or if they do they just want to cut me open.
