I am begging for any help available. I was Diagnosed in August of 2013 with Crohn's Disease in my small intestines. My Doctor has been confused since the beginning because my main symptom is chronic constipation and of course all of the pain and suffering that goes along with it. He says that while he knows it is possible to have Crohn's disease with constipation it's very unusual and he has never treated a patient with these symptoms. He started me on budesonide 9mg a day and pentasa. It never helped with the constipation so I came off of the steroids and he gave me linzess 290mg a day. It worked for about two months and then it stopped working all of a sudden two and a half weeks ago. I went back to see my GI and he sent me for a CT scan which he said came back showing severe inflammation and thickening of my intestines. Since then he has put me back on budesonide again and still continuing the pentasa and linzess. He also added miralax 2 a day. I am only having a BM every other day at most and it is very small amounts. I continue to feel backed up everyday and nothing is relieving that. For the past three days I have taken 3 ducolax laxatives with very little success and when I emailed him today to tell him that I still am having trouble having a BM he suggested that I take senna laxative..
Have any of you suffered from only constipation? (I have never had diarrhea unless I take a laxative and lately even that is not producing a normal BM) if so what is your treatment plan?
I have had every test I can think of (colonoscopy, barium swallow, pill endoscopy, some blood test and most recently a CT scan) and they all point to Crohn's disease. My GI has officially diagnosed me but nothing is working yet. I can understand that it takes time for medication to start working but I cannot handle the constipation much longer. I feel completely out of it and I'm becoming extremely depressed.
I am sick and tired of people asking me if I feel better. I DONT and I'm not going to over night. I feel like people are looking at me like I'm making this up. Please help me before I have a nervous breakdown. :sign0085:
Have any of you suffered from only constipation? (I have never had diarrhea unless I take a laxative and lately even that is not producing a normal BM) if so what is your treatment plan?
I have had every test I can think of (colonoscopy, barium swallow, pill endoscopy, some blood test and most recently a CT scan) and they all point to Crohn's disease. My GI has officially diagnosed me but nothing is working yet. I can understand that it takes time for medication to start working but I cannot handle the constipation much longer. I feel completely out of it and I'm becoming extremely depressed.
I am sick and tired of people asking me if I feel better. I DONT and I'm not going to over night. I feel like people are looking at me like I'm making this up. Please help me before I have a nervous breakdown. :sign0085: