Hey everyone,
I decided to join this forum after being diagnosed 8 days ago with Crohn's disease =/
To start, i'm a 15 yr old boy and last year exactly during this time of the year I had weeks of cramps and pains in my stomach. I was taken to see the Doctors and went to the hospital and everyone kept telling me i wasn't eating healthily and abs exercise was causing this (yeah right lol). There I told them I had an ulcer, heck I preached that I did and I asked for a gastroscopy but no-one believed me or took me that seriously. But after that I became well again, more or less and went through everything just fine. Well after a few weeks of being fine i came down with such a bad case of diarrhea but the doctors just told me to eat bland foods and it cleared.
3 months ago, i had sudden instances when i'd have diarrhea for just a day or 2 and i'd get better but i was sure this was because i was helping out at a fast food shop and was eating badly and so i made my diet healthier and the symptoms were gone. Then 5 weeks ago everything just went crazy: Insane diarrhea with me going 7-8 times a day, unbearable stomach pains which lead to me crawling on the floor and massive weight loss of 21kg. My life was going downhill by the second and I found myself on the floor with my arms around my stomach in pain, not being able to get up. After staying in hospital for a week, fainting from bowel prep and not being able to sleep from my stomach aches. I had biopsies and an endoscopy done. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and I was discharged 7 days ago and put on steroids, Pentasa, vitamin supplements and put on Modulen and only that - no food, no drinks for 6 weeks =(
After all this, I'm really depressed and sad all the time, i see and smell food everywhere and miss going to school (yeah that bad lol) and lie around stressed not being able to play sports or even do normal everyday things because I've become so weak. My future doesn't look so good and my hopes are somewhat fading away.
I was looking around online and I came across this forum, I was amazed, other people are going through this and know where i'm coming from.
it's a pain. I hope it gets better, I hope I can live life like a normal person and become a doctor someday, like I've always wanted and who knows; I may specialise in IBD someday and find a cure - i'm a dreamer
Thank you for reading, anyway, i'd jus like to say hello to everyone and hope i'm welcome here and I wish everyone the best of luck with whatever demon's they're fighting.
I decided to join this forum after being diagnosed 8 days ago with Crohn's disease =/
To start, i'm a 15 yr old boy and last year exactly during this time of the year I had weeks of cramps and pains in my stomach. I was taken to see the Doctors and went to the hospital and everyone kept telling me i wasn't eating healthily and abs exercise was causing this (yeah right lol). There I told them I had an ulcer, heck I preached that I did and I asked for a gastroscopy but no-one believed me or took me that seriously. But after that I became well again, more or less and went through everything just fine. Well after a few weeks of being fine i came down with such a bad case of diarrhea but the doctors just told me to eat bland foods and it cleared.
3 months ago, i had sudden instances when i'd have diarrhea for just a day or 2 and i'd get better but i was sure this was because i was helping out at a fast food shop and was eating badly and so i made my diet healthier and the symptoms were gone. Then 5 weeks ago everything just went crazy: Insane diarrhea with me going 7-8 times a day, unbearable stomach pains which lead to me crawling on the floor and massive weight loss of 21kg. My life was going downhill by the second and I found myself on the floor with my arms around my stomach in pain, not being able to get up. After staying in hospital for a week, fainting from bowel prep and not being able to sleep from my stomach aches. I had biopsies and an endoscopy done. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and I was discharged 7 days ago and put on steroids, Pentasa, vitamin supplements and put on Modulen and only that - no food, no drinks for 6 weeks =(
After all this, I'm really depressed and sad all the time, i see and smell food everywhere and miss going to school (yeah that bad lol) and lie around stressed not being able to play sports or even do normal everyday things because I've become so weak. My future doesn't look so good and my hopes are somewhat fading away.
I was looking around online and I came across this forum, I was amazed, other people are going through this and know where i'm coming from.
it's a pain. I hope it gets better, I hope I can live life like a normal person and become a doctor someday, like I've always wanted and who knows; I may specialise in IBD someday and find a cure - i'm a dreamer
Thank you for reading, anyway, i'd jus like to say hello to everyone and hope i'm welcome here and I wish everyone the best of luck with whatever demon's they're fighting.
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