Question.....has anyone here had multiple extra-intestinal symptoms before having bowel symptoms? I have an 18 year history of kidney stones, have had multiple blood clots with no known cause and was diagnosed with scleritis a year ago. About five months ago started having constant diarrhea with abdominal/back pain, fevers and night sweats. My PCP referred me to GI then, but I didn't go until today after developing a small anal abscess. GI doc thinks its probably Crohns and wants to do a colonoscopy. I've always had a "nervous" stomach, but nothing like I'm having now. She was surprised none of the other specialists I've seen linked all these symptoms together, but I just figured they were individual issues. She also mentioned immune inflammatory disease as if it were something different than Crohns (she also said its different than UC). Anyone else out there had an experience like this?