First I want to thank you for having this forum. This has been such a great asset these past few months while I've been having all these tests done. So thank you all for being here.
I meet with a GI doc for the first time later this month. I'm a bit nervous. At this point I just want to know what's wrong.
It started with abdominal pain very low on my right side. I dismissed it as gas but it stayed for a couple days. Then I had a very bloody stool and it scared me into going to urgent care after work that day. They almost rushed me to the ER to get my appendix out, but I wasn't in that much pain, and when I told them my Uncle had Crohn's they decided to do some tests and ruled out my appendix.
After a few docs, blood tests, an ultra sound, and a CT scan they still don't know what's wrong. The pain settled in my back, then went away. Then it cycled again from my front, to my back, and ebbed away again. It's done that a handful of times. Usually the front pain is sharper than the back. I haven't had pain for a couple weeks, and it's almost disappointing since I know if they want to do a colonoscopy it would be better if I was experiencing more symptoms.
After thinking of all the things I've had wrong with me in the past few years I just don't know what's a symptom and what's not. I would dismiss it as IBS but I have a near constant fever, and I don't think that's part of IBS. I guess at this point I would like to know what is Crohn's related, and what can I dismiss? I'd like to start keeping a food and/or sympton journal, but I'm not sure what to include. Here is everything that has happened within the last year, some have been going on since I was little (I'm 28 now, female, if that helps):
Headaches
Eye bumps (on whites of eyes)
Tonsil infections
Bumpy skin rash on upper arms and lips (psoriasis?)
Hives when warm
Chest Pains
Abdominal pain / lower back pain, right side
Bloating, distended stomach after eating (look pregnant)
Constipation
Small dark deer-poop-like stools
Near constant low grade fever
Changing joint pain: hands, wrists, hip, knee, toes (joints throb for a couple days then goes away)
Muscle quivers
Do any of these not fit with Crohn's and I can dismiss them from a food/symptom tracking journal? Some of them seem allergic in nature, so I didn't know if I could dismiss those.
Thank you all for your time, if not your responses. And thank you for just being here.
I meet with a GI doc for the first time later this month. I'm a bit nervous. At this point I just want to know what's wrong.
It started with abdominal pain very low on my right side. I dismissed it as gas but it stayed for a couple days. Then I had a very bloody stool and it scared me into going to urgent care after work that day. They almost rushed me to the ER to get my appendix out, but I wasn't in that much pain, and when I told them my Uncle had Crohn's they decided to do some tests and ruled out my appendix.
After a few docs, blood tests, an ultra sound, and a CT scan they still don't know what's wrong. The pain settled in my back, then went away. Then it cycled again from my front, to my back, and ebbed away again. It's done that a handful of times. Usually the front pain is sharper than the back. I haven't had pain for a couple weeks, and it's almost disappointing since I know if they want to do a colonoscopy it would be better if I was experiencing more symptoms.
After thinking of all the things I've had wrong with me in the past few years I just don't know what's a symptom and what's not. I would dismiss it as IBS but I have a near constant fever, and I don't think that's part of IBS. I guess at this point I would like to know what is Crohn's related, and what can I dismiss? I'd like to start keeping a food and/or sympton journal, but I'm not sure what to include. Here is everything that has happened within the last year, some have been going on since I was little (I'm 28 now, female, if that helps):
Headaches
Eye bumps (on whites of eyes)
Tonsil infections
Bumpy skin rash on upper arms and lips (psoriasis?)
Hives when warm
Chest Pains
Abdominal pain / lower back pain, right side
Bloating, distended stomach after eating (look pregnant)
Constipation
Small dark deer-poop-like stools
Near constant low grade fever
Changing joint pain: hands, wrists, hip, knee, toes (joints throb for a couple days then goes away)
Muscle quivers
Do any of these not fit with Crohn's and I can dismiss them from a food/symptom tracking journal? Some of them seem allergic in nature, so I didn't know if I could dismiss those.
Thank you all for your time, if not your responses. And thank you for just being here.
