I have had stomach problems for many years. It began with a milk allergy and moved on to shellfish. I am unable to digest most fruit, many vegetables, beans, and now it seems to have grown to wheat and rice. When I eat these things I get bad gas, diarrhea, and sometimes nausea. Over the past several years I have had bouts of extreme pain, vomiting, diarrhea, sweats, shaking weakness, down on the bathroom floor for hours unable to move and when I finally can I am able to crawl to my bed and can't switch form one side to the next. This has happened more frequently in the past year but it is infrequent enough that I have not gone to the hospital. When it first started happening I figured it was food poisoning. When it began happening while others ate the same food as me and didn't get sick I began to wonder what was going on with me. Now, aside from the bouts of serious discomfort which takes me to the floor and an inability to digest a lot of food I have almost constant abdominal discomfort. I have no insurance so I cannot get a colonoscopy, which was recommended by my doctor. My blood came back with no inflammation, iron was high then low and no blood in my stool. However, when I eat I am almost always in discomfort while digesting. I am a slight woman, 5'2" and anywhere between 98 and 93lbs so I cannot afford to stop eating although I am often tempted to do so. I frequent the bathroom, sometimes nothing come out and sometimes I sit there for hours trying to get just a little more out. Recently I had terrible constipation with a lot of green stool, horrible scent, and now it is more normal but when it is normal there is a lot of slimy mucus in it.
There was a time in my life when my bowel movements were regular. I would use the rest room shortly after eating a meal and everything was expelled. Now, I go back and forth between constipation and diarrhea and constipated diarrhea and failing to expel everything that is in my bowel. The worst part is that I am in discomfort most of the time. I just want to lay around because when I move I often feel pain or discomfort. I am tired a lot and just feel uncomfortable a lot of the time. I sometimes wake in the night due to abdominal discomfort/pain.
So, my sister was recently diagnosed with Crohn's after having been misdiagnoses with IBS, years ago. Her GI doctor urged me to get checked for Crohn's as my symptoms would suggest I may have the disease but, of course,, without insurance and little money it is virtually impossible to get diagnosed and treated. She, my sister, suggested that I check out one of these forums and so I am here.
There was a time in my life when my bowel movements were regular. I would use the rest room shortly after eating a meal and everything was expelled. Now, I go back and forth between constipation and diarrhea and constipated diarrhea and failing to expel everything that is in my bowel. The worst part is that I am in discomfort most of the time. I just want to lay around because when I move I often feel pain or discomfort. I am tired a lot and just feel uncomfortable a lot of the time. I sometimes wake in the night due to abdominal discomfort/pain.
So, my sister was recently diagnosed with Crohn's after having been misdiagnoses with IBS, years ago. Her GI doctor urged me to get checked for Crohn's as my symptoms would suggest I may have the disease but, of course,, without insurance and little money it is virtually impossible to get diagnosed and treated. She, my sister, suggested that I check out one of these forums and so I am here.
