Hey everyone, so here's a bit about my story.
I am 20 years old, and didn't even knew this existed until I was diagnosed. In June of 2010 i began to have stomach aches all the time, and was losing weight very quickly. I started to get dark spots all over my legs, which my family doctor thought were bites and put me on so much unneeded medication. Then one day I went to emerge because I had such bad stomach pains and that's when they decided to start doing tests on me.
I had scopes done and they determined that it was crohn's. I had experienced bad stomach pains throughout high school but never thought much of it. I was on a lot of medicine when they first diagnosed me, something like 16 pills a day, but now I'm down to just one medicine, Imuran.
I'm a lot better now, just over a year later. I've gained weight back (which I'm not thrilled about lol) but my stomach doesn't bother me much anymore. I never thought I'd have something I needed to treat for the rest of my life, especially starting this young.
I am 20 years old, and didn't even knew this existed until I was diagnosed. In June of 2010 i began to have stomach aches all the time, and was losing weight very quickly. I started to get dark spots all over my legs, which my family doctor thought were bites and put me on so much unneeded medication. Then one day I went to emerge because I had such bad stomach pains and that's when they decided to start doing tests on me.
I had scopes done and they determined that it was crohn's. I had experienced bad stomach pains throughout high school but never thought much of it. I was on a lot of medicine when they first diagnosed me, something like 16 pills a day, but now I'm down to just one medicine, Imuran.
I'm a lot better now, just over a year later. I've gained weight back (which I'm not thrilled about lol) but my stomach doesn't bother me much anymore. I never thought I'd have something I needed to treat for the rest of my life, especially starting this young.