Hey all, I'm a 42 year old 6 ft. 3 guy. 12 years ago, I had a Crohns scare, I had gotten in the hospital, they thought it was from my appendix but that had already been removed, so they thought it was Crohns. I was taking Vioxx at the time for back problems, I had a herniated disk, and well after the Colonoscopy they said quit taking the Vioxx. 2 days later all my symptoms went away. 
Years go by I still have back problems till they finally get back enough where I decide to get a back fusion done on my back, thru my stomach, it’s called the ALIF surgery, very common if you look it up. I wanted the surgery done thru my back, but the doctor all his nurses all told me you will heal faster etc... Also my mother works for my doctor, hes a very good doctor. So I trusted him.
Well surgery went well, I was healing up and then I was at work and did something really stupid, we had a fire drill and I participated in it, the stupid part, were in a big building. After that I had tingling in my legs and I for the last couple of months had off and on Diarrhea and constipation and cramping, Also they had me on Celebrex, even though I told them that I had all those problems with Vioxx.
Months go by then I had one day an intestinal Obstruction, I started throwing up could not stop, went to the hospital, they got me under control, and I met a hard CORE STUPID nurse, They had me on Morphine and a drug what controls your nausea, well they needed to do a Cat Scan, So I had to drink a half gallon of this crap and hold it down, well I was able to and got back to the room and I figured, hey I’m done, this is nauseating me, I’m going to throw this crap back up. Well I throw up. The STUPID nurse thought, well he’s starting up again, and they ambushed me and put a NG tube in my nose, well as soon as they left, I pulled that crap out; from that point onward it was me against the hospital whether or not it was going back in. And I thought they were idiots, because THEY CAUSED IT. Anybody met nurses like this?
Well they found an obstruction, I stayed there a couple of days and kept moving around and it passed, more time goes by and I get more pains in my right side, and I had probably the most clueless Gastroenterologist I have ever met, this bozo makes me wait 9 days to do a sonogram. Well I had Gallstones. They did a colonoscopy to look for Crohns but according to this gastro doctor, I didn’t have it. Even though I had a mass in my large intestine. So I had my Gallbladder removed. I didn't realize about the mass on the colonoscopy till later.
Well they had me on Questran, Whelcol for the diarhea it never stopped, and thru my pain doctor for my back, Percocet and muscle relaxers and I just felt like I was getting worse. I had a MRI for my abdomen and the dumb doctor said I was clear again. This doctor I felt was learning on me, I knew he was fresh out of school a couple of years. This went on for 4-5 months
I had a friend who had gastro problems and she has a husband who has diverticulitis, I figured it was time to get a 2nd opinion. So I went to see their doctor he’s a colon-rectal surgeon. We’ll he comes in and sees my colonoscopy and MRI and right off the bat, says you have 2 fistulas, one at my ileum and the other at my large intestine. He said in layman’s terms, that my intestines have re-routed my small intestine in to my large intestine. Missing half of it. He said there are no drugs that will help this except surgery. He’s a very well respected surgeon in Atlanta where I live. I have read all his reviews. He said the drugs the other gastro doctor are making you take will just cause obstructions, and the previous Gastro doctor wanted me to get ANOTHER colonoscopy done. I asked the new doctor about this and he was like WHY? I have all the data in front of me. I showed him everything and he saw the scar from my back surgery and said, well it looks like Crohns but they may have messed you up doing the back surgery, I won’t know till I go in and fix it.
So that’s where I’m at the surgery is scheduled for 3 weeks from now, he’s taking the one from the ileum out and taking the other fistula out in my large intestine, he said they were both small and I should be fine after that. I have had this tingling thru my legs ever since this has started and gets worse every time I eat and the back doctor thinks, that since the inflammation is right by the ileum its right where the sciatic nerve is and I‘m praying it fixes it.
I’m like scared of everything and probably the most, the NG tube. I hated that thing more than anything they have ever done to me. I’m mad at the first Gastroenterologist for delaying the findings for this all, I think either 2 things, was he greedy trying to get another colonoscopy OR was he just that stupid. Also now knowing I may have not had my Gallbladder removed if I had a better Gastro doctor. I wish I had gotten a 2nd opinion.
Either way I’m not a happy camper, as you can tell by my rambling on. I have been dealing with this a year now and I have been on pain meds the whole time. All I wanted to do was get my back fixed and it has seemed like I opened a can of worms that I cannot get out of. :depressed:
I have been very depressed thru all this and my work has been very supportive of it all, but I’m praying that he can get me back on track, I still have diarrhea all the time, bout have to take Pepto bismal or Imodium daily. In my family’s whole heredity has never been Crohns, one case of Ulcerative Colitis but nothing else.
Why at times I think it’s the back surgery that caused this. Saw ya’lls site and you are all sound like we have the same problems and if it is Crohns; I’m already used to thinking about it. If anybody else has gone thru the stuff I have I would love to talk to them and get some hope. Especially gone thru a double resection in both the small and large instestine. I at times think the meds, Celebrex caused some of this, like the problems I had 15 years ago. The whole time I told the doctors about it and they won't listen, its a great drug. What they say, I cannot take a advil even because it has caused cramping.
Thanks
Kellix aka Eric
Years go by I still have back problems till they finally get back enough where I decide to get a back fusion done on my back, thru my stomach, it’s called the ALIF surgery, very common if you look it up. I wanted the surgery done thru my back, but the doctor all his nurses all told me you will heal faster etc... Also my mother works for my doctor, hes a very good doctor. So I trusted him.
Well surgery went well, I was healing up and then I was at work and did something really stupid, we had a fire drill and I participated in it, the stupid part, were in a big building. After that I had tingling in my legs and I for the last couple of months had off and on Diarrhea and constipation and cramping, Also they had me on Celebrex, even though I told them that I had all those problems with Vioxx.
Months go by then I had one day an intestinal Obstruction, I started throwing up could not stop, went to the hospital, they got me under control, and I met a hard CORE STUPID nurse, They had me on Morphine and a drug what controls your nausea, well they needed to do a Cat Scan, So I had to drink a half gallon of this crap and hold it down, well I was able to and got back to the room and I figured, hey I’m done, this is nauseating me, I’m going to throw this crap back up. Well I throw up. The STUPID nurse thought, well he’s starting up again, and they ambushed me and put a NG tube in my nose, well as soon as they left, I pulled that crap out; from that point onward it was me against the hospital whether or not it was going back in. And I thought they were idiots, because THEY CAUSED IT. Anybody met nurses like this?
Well they found an obstruction, I stayed there a couple of days and kept moving around and it passed, more time goes by and I get more pains in my right side, and I had probably the most clueless Gastroenterologist I have ever met, this bozo makes me wait 9 days to do a sonogram. Well I had Gallstones. They did a colonoscopy to look for Crohns but according to this gastro doctor, I didn’t have it. Even though I had a mass in my large intestine. So I had my Gallbladder removed.
I didn't realize about the mass on the colonoscopy till later.Well they had me on Questran, Whelcol for the diarhea it never stopped, and thru my pain doctor for my back, Percocet and muscle relaxers and I just felt like I was getting worse. I had a MRI for my abdomen and the dumb doctor said I was clear again. This doctor I felt was learning on me, I knew he was fresh out of school a couple of years. This went on for 4-5 months
I had a friend who had gastro problems and she has a husband who has diverticulitis, I figured it was time to get a 2nd opinion. So I went to see their doctor he’s a colon-rectal surgeon. We’ll he comes in and sees my colonoscopy and MRI and right off the bat, says you have 2 fistulas, one at my ileum and the other at my large intestine. He said in layman’s terms, that my intestines have re-routed my small intestine in to my large intestine. Missing half of it. He said there are no drugs that will help this except surgery. He’s a very well respected surgeon in Atlanta where I live. I have read all his reviews. He said the drugs the other gastro doctor are making you take will just cause obstructions, and the previous Gastro doctor wanted me to get ANOTHER colonoscopy done. I asked the new doctor about this and he was like WHY? I have all the data in front of me. I showed him everything and he saw the scar from my back surgery and said, well it looks like Crohns but they may have messed you up doing the back surgery, I won’t know till I go in and fix it.
So that’s where I’m at the surgery is scheduled for 3 weeks from now, he’s taking the one from the ileum out and taking the other fistula out in my large intestine, he said they were both small and I should be fine after that. I have had this tingling thru my legs ever since this has started and gets worse every time I eat and the back doctor thinks, that since the inflammation is right by the ileum its right where the sciatic nerve is and I‘m praying it fixes it.
I’m like scared of everything and probably the most, the NG tube. I hated that thing more than anything they have ever done to me. I’m mad at the first Gastroenterologist for delaying the findings for this all, I think either 2 things, was he greedy trying to get another colonoscopy OR was he just that stupid. Also now knowing I may have not had my Gallbladder removed if I had a better Gastro doctor. I wish I had gotten a 2nd opinion.
Either way I’m not a happy camper, as you can tell by my rambling on. I have been dealing with this a year now and I have been on pain meds the whole time. All I wanted to do was get my back fixed and it has seemed like I opened a can of worms that I cannot get out of. :depressed:
I have been very depressed thru all this and my work has been very supportive of it all, but I’m praying that he can get me back on track, I still have diarrhea all the time, bout have to take Pepto bismal or Imodium daily. In my family’s whole heredity has never been Crohns, one case of Ulcerative Colitis but nothing else.
Why at times I think it’s the back surgery that caused this. Saw ya’lls site and you are all sound like we have the same problems and if it is Crohns; I’m already used to thinking about it. If anybody else has gone thru the stuff I have I would love to talk to them and get some hope.
Especially gone thru a double resection in both the small and large instestine. I at times think the meds, Celebrex caused some of this, like the problems I had 15 years ago. The whole time I told the doctors about it and they won't listen, its a great drug. What they say, I cannot take a advil even because it has caused cramping. Thanks
Kellix aka Eric
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