Well this all started whenever I was a Freshmen in HS. One day I went to a restaurant and ordered some fish and fries, the fish tasted fine but shortly after eating it I got the runs and had to go bad, then I started having to go again and went in my pants a couple times so I thought I ate some bad fish because that happens sometimes. Well it didn't stop it kept happening and I was still going in my pants, it was always diarrhea. Then during school I started having diarrhea in my pants and was always in fear whenever I farted because it'd come out, I was so embarrassed about soiling my pants during school that I never told anyone so it stayed in my pants the rest of the day. I then started having really, really bad gas. It then got so bad that whenever I went it'd burn so bad and was so sensitive that toilet paper felt like rubbing sand paper there. Finally one day during school I was really thirsty so my face got really pale, they walked me to the nurses office and then everything got all dizzy and I had to hold onto the lockers because I almost passed out. I was taken to the doctors and given iron pills which made it better but every time I went I still tried to avoid going for as long as I could and my gas stank so bad it was like raw sewage so I went to a gastrologist. I was then giving a colonoscopy, the doctor wouldn't go any further than the first bend inside because the inflammation was so bad he was afraid he'd tear it. I found out my Sophomore year I had it.
I was prescribed Asacol, iron pills, Prednisone, and Imuran. I stopped taking the Prednisone but was still taking everything else. One iron pill, 1 1/2 Imuran and 8 Asacol everyday. I'm still taking these everyday, and it all was fine until last October.
Last October I had a very bad flare up and I'm the person who hides their pain and never tells anyone. So I was having temperatures of 98-101 everyday and it kept fluctuating, it'd be 98 when I woke up at 10AM and then 100 by 12PM. I was still going to work everyday while having bad stomach cramps, I'd have to stop what I was doing and grab my stomach for a few minutes or I just ignored it and it went away. Well one Thursday night I randomly got extreme stomach pains so I tried to sleep it away but then I woke up and it was worse, so I went up to get a drink since I was thirsty and then the pain got worse I then felt light headed and could see black start to cover my vision and static in my ears so I crawled over to my bed and then passed out. When I woke up the pain wasn't bad like it was but my temp was 102 so I went to the ER and they gave me pain meds that was it. No MRI or anything like that.
After that they Vicodin and Benzytol. I ran out of Vicodin but the pain was gone so it was fine. But fast forward to February and I was Benzytol everyday to mask my stomach pains since they started back up and then I started throwing up green stuff so they gave me a cat scan and they saw my intestines were blocked so I had to have emergency surgery right then and there. I ended up having 16" of my intestines removed, parts of my colon and lower/small intestines were taken out.
Now it doesn't hurt to go anymore ever since the surgery it hasn't. I'm 21 now and was 16 when I found out I had it.
I was prescribed Asacol, iron pills, Prednisone, and Imuran. I stopped taking the Prednisone but was still taking everything else. One iron pill, 1 1/2 Imuran and 8 Asacol everyday. I'm still taking these everyday, and it all was fine until last October.
Last October I had a very bad flare up and I'm the person who hides their pain and never tells anyone. So I was having temperatures of 98-101 everyday and it kept fluctuating, it'd be 98 when I woke up at 10AM and then 100 by 12PM. I was still going to work everyday while having bad stomach cramps, I'd have to stop what I was doing and grab my stomach for a few minutes or I just ignored it and it went away. Well one Thursday night I randomly got extreme stomach pains so I tried to sleep it away but then I woke up and it was worse, so I went up to get a drink since I was thirsty and then the pain got worse I then felt light headed and could see black start to cover my vision and static in my ears so I crawled over to my bed and then passed out. When I woke up the pain wasn't bad like it was but my temp was 102 so I went to the ER and they gave me pain meds that was it. No MRI or anything like that.
After that they Vicodin and Benzytol. I ran out of Vicodin but the pain was gone so it was fine. But fast forward to February and I was Benzytol everyday to mask my stomach pains since they started back up and then I started throwing up green stuff so they gave me a cat scan and they saw my intestines were blocked so I had to have emergency surgery right then and there. I ended up having 16" of my intestines removed, parts of my colon and lower/small intestines were taken out.
Now it doesn't hurt to go anymore ever since the surgery it hasn't. I'm 21 now and was 16 when I found out I had it.
