Hi, im a 24 year old male whom recently got told by my gastrologist that he thinks i have crohns and started me on budesonide tablets which i have taken for roughly 6 days now. My condition started a few years back where i was told i had a hemorrhoid which i went into an operation and had it removed by putting a bandage on it and removing the blood flow to it and let it drop of by itself. Shortly after that i was in so much pain whenever i needed to go to the toilet and the doctors again had a look and diagnosed me with anal fistula's, i had three operations on them to get removed where the surgeon cut them open waited for them to heal, one would heal another would open after a few months, one of them wouldnt heal at all. I always asked why this was occuring and always was told it was abscess. After 4 years of putting up with the anal fistula i started to get pains in my abdominal area quite a lot, they were there in the day time, they were there in the night time, constantly always in pain the only thing that would make them go away was co-codamol 30mg of codaine. On two seperate nights i had a fever that lasted only one night and suddently the next day they went away and i was perfectly fine, recently i been having diahorrea all the time once or twice a day the most - sometimes my stool has blood in it but thats understandable cause of the fistula's. I feel a sign of relief when i go to the toilet to urinate or empty my bowels it seems the pain goes away when i do, one night i couldnt even urinate no more as it was hurting and stinging so much - so i went to the emdoc and they gave me some antibiotics for it. Whenever i eat spicy food i constantly get hiccups that do not stop at all and sometimes im always belching for no reason at all and i cant control them. I've done loads of blood tests which have shown that there is an inflammation in the body and also did an MRI scan which showed there was inflammation in the actuall bowel - im gonna have a colonscopy in the next 3 weeks to do biopsies and to have a look to confirm its crohn's disease. My consultant is very sure that it is crohn's disease cause of the anal fistula he says and has started me on budesonide but they dont seem to help at all at the moment.
I feel like life aint the same as it used to be i hardly go out now, im always depressed cause of the pain and im on my last semester at university - done all my exams but i cant seem to do my assingments cause of the pain - life has become very very depressing with this pain
Anyone have any advice or thoughts on all of this ?
I feel like life aint the same as it used to be i hardly go out now, im always depressed cause of the pain and im on my last semester at university - done all my exams but i cant seem to do my assingments cause of the pain - life has become very very depressing with this pain
Anyone have any advice or thoughts on all of this ?