Well, it all started five years ago this past July when I had a heart attack, i had choose to ignore all of the pain that i was going through for a week but finally decided to go to the hospital and get it checked out. i thought that i had a really bad chest cold hell i was only 32 years old who thinks of a heart attack at that age.
Believe or not but i would rather go through that again then what i am going through now. After i got released from the hospital i was on a lot of medicine one of them being aspirin. I had started to feel a littel bit better and then started to get worse again but in a different way. My diarehha had been with me my whole life but this was different it was more frequent and very very painful. I went to the doc and told them the whole story and all they said was you a very large anal fissure. Let me tell you that hurt really bad. So they gave me some pain meds and sent me home, by this time i could no longer walk and the pain kept getting worse and worse. So i went back to the doc and told them the storu again. SO they scheduled me in for a colonoscopy. They found out that i may have coliltis and gave me salofalk. Three weeks later still can not walk and the pain has got even worse and now i have a huge painful abscess on my ass and i mean huge the size of a plum. So i went to the hospital to have it looked at and they said it was an abscess so they drained it. Get this they did not put me under or give me anything to help they just sliced away and boy did i scream. I have a pretty high tolerance for pain but i could not help it i had to scream even when i felt the abscess burst and drain it was so painful. The total size of the incision was 2 1/2 inches long and when i got home that same day it looked like i had three ass cheeks.
So at this point i was hoping that was it, then the worst of all pain came major bleeding and when i wouold go the washroom to shit, it would throw off the toilet it hurt so bad to have a movement. So back to the hospital i went again for am emergency colonoscopy. They later found out that i have severe crohns.
The heart was caused by the crohns which i never had checked out before, but it was the aspirin that got that ball rolling. It upset my stiomach so bad that it turned into this nightmare.
Over the next four years in and out of the hospital with abscesses and emergency colonsocopies and long stays at the hospitals. Sometimes i would have 3 to 5 anal fistuales at one given time, try and go to the washroom then, believe me it hurts really really bad. It really does want to throw you off the toilet when you have to go.
Potassium treatments, Imuran treatments, prednisone tratrments, MRI's etc and a couple of docs and i am finally on remicade but the pain it still there and i can not get rid of it. Then i got shingles because my imune system is so depleted i got a nice dose of shingles and that hurts as well.
To this date, abscesses and toilet paper issues it is taking its toll on me. Sorry for the storu being so long but i could have made it a lot longer, there was a whole lot other goodies in between all of this but i think you get the point.
Crohns = Nastyness!!!
