Hi there forum, I'm Jacob, I'm 13 and have had Crohn's for about 5 years now. It all started around June or July 2006, I was 8 years old.I started to feel sick and throw up any meal I ate.
My mom told me when I was little I would go to the washroom often and usually always after meals. I got even worse throughout the summer, I had agonizing pain every washroom break and I was in so much pain I couldn't get out of bed.
After about 2 months of going downhill we went to our family doctor, he thought I might have celiac disease, so I tried not eating any gluten. It didn't help one bit, after he went through the ideas he had our doctor referred us so a doctor somewhere in the middle of town, I don't remember what it was called since I was 8 .
That doctor tried some more tests and they must have not came up with much because I remember getting referred to my doctor I currently have pretty quickly, Dr. Christopher Justinich (he's on google!) He did a colonoscopy pretty quick, It was about August 26th when he diagnosed me with a severe case of Crohn's disease.
I don't remember being told I had Crohn's, My family was suspecting Crohn's a little also because my dad's brother has crohn's too.
Since my diagnoses I've been on a number of medications including Sulfasalazine(Went off a couple years ago,it dodt help)
Prednisolone(Which im still on) Imuran(Which I stopped b/c it didn't work very well and the risks) ]
Methotrexate(Which im also still on, it seems to help pretty good) and
an antibiotic that i haven't even tried to remember thename on 'cause it's so confusing! And thats my story! ^_^