Hi guys!
I'm completely new to this so I just wanted to share my story so far and see if anyone has been in the same boat as me. I am currently un-diagnosed (suspected Crohn's) but waiting for further tests however I dont have the typical symptoms most Crohn's sufferers do.
I'm a 20 year old teaching student from New Zealand and until last year had never really had any major health problems apart from getting the flu more often than i suppose normal people do (I presume my immune system just isn't brilliant)
For me it all started about 8 months ago when I started developing severe pain on my left side of my abdomen which also lead into chest pains. I went to the doctors for this and was told I had gastritis and given Omaprazole to take. After about a week everything was fine and i thought nothing more of it, continuing to take my Omaprazole for gastritis.
Then about 3 months later I had the same pains. They were so bad I could hardly move without them starting up and it was incredibly painful whenever I ate. I went back to the doctor and had my pills changed for my gastritis. However about 2 days later I went to the emergency room in extreme pain. I was told I had Bronchitis and was given anti-biotics and sent home. After about 4 days the pains had gone again so I thought nothing of it.
But the pains came back about 3 months ago. Went away for a few weeks and came back. By this stage I knew something wasn't right and after several doctors consultations where I had extreme tenderness in my lower right and upper left abdomen my doctor advised me to go straight to A & E as they thought I had an appendicitis.
I spent the next week in hospital after having exploratory key-hole surgery where they removed my appendix which had quite a lot of scar tissue surrounding it and they also had to clean out some blood they found in my abdomen. They believed this was the source of my pain. I went home on the Saturday after the surgery and was recovering well and was up and about. By Friday I was starting to get the painful stabbing pains again in my lower right abdomen and by Sunday morning the pain was so bad I was rushed to hospital again. The medical team were fantastic and preformed every test under the sun including a CT which didnt reveal anything so I was told it was likely just still healing pains and sent home.
I still had severe pain for the next week but started to feel better. So I decided I was well enough to start my final teaching practical (which started 4 weeks after the appendix surgery). 2 and a half days into it I was feeling very unwell again and starting to have abdo pain again and I ended up collapsing in class.
At this point I went back to the doctors again. My doctor is fantastic and consulted with other doctors right away about my case and last week I was told they think I have some form of IBD, they suspect crohn's. I have an appointment tomorrow to get specialist referals to have the diagnosis confirmed.
I've been reading a few posts but my symptom's seem to differ from the norm of crohn's.
I've had:
- Severe abdo pain (mostly lower right but with some higher left)
- Constipation
- Blood in Stools
- Mucus in Stools
- Extreme Nausea/ Occasional Vomiting
- Tiredness
- Weightloss
- Fevers
- Constant Headaches
So far all of the tests including the CT and bloods are normal (except for an extremely high inflamation count. The norm is 5 whereas all of my blood tests have been between 35 - 80 and even as high as 98 right before my appendix surgery). So whatever is wrong is doing a bloody good job at hiding!
The past few days have been pretty bad. I've actually had to drop out of my teaching practical because I simply can't do it with the pain I'm in.
Obviously this is only a suspected case of crohn's but because I dont have the usual symptoms I was wondering if anyone else has a similar kind of story to me?
Nicole
I'm completely new to this so I just wanted to share my story so far and see if anyone has been in the same boat as me. I am currently un-diagnosed (suspected Crohn's) but waiting for further tests however I dont have the typical symptoms most Crohn's sufferers do.
I'm a 20 year old teaching student from New Zealand and until last year had never really had any major health problems apart from getting the flu more often than i suppose normal people do (I presume my immune system just isn't brilliant)
For me it all started about 8 months ago when I started developing severe pain on my left side of my abdomen which also lead into chest pains. I went to the doctors for this and was told I had gastritis and given Omaprazole to take. After about a week everything was fine and i thought nothing more of it, continuing to take my Omaprazole for gastritis.
Then about 3 months later I had the same pains. They were so bad I could hardly move without them starting up and it was incredibly painful whenever I ate. I went back to the doctor and had my pills changed for my gastritis. However about 2 days later I went to the emergency room in extreme pain. I was told I had Bronchitis and was given anti-biotics and sent home. After about 4 days the pains had gone again so I thought nothing of it.
But the pains came back about 3 months ago. Went away for a few weeks and came back. By this stage I knew something wasn't right and after several doctors consultations where I had extreme tenderness in my lower right and upper left abdomen my doctor advised me to go straight to A & E as they thought I had an appendicitis.
I spent the next week in hospital after having exploratory key-hole surgery where they removed my appendix which had quite a lot of scar tissue surrounding it and they also had to clean out some blood they found in my abdomen. They believed this was the source of my pain. I went home on the Saturday after the surgery and was recovering well and was up and about. By Friday I was starting to get the painful stabbing pains again in my lower right abdomen and by Sunday morning the pain was so bad I was rushed to hospital again. The medical team were fantastic and preformed every test under the sun including a CT which didnt reveal anything so I was told it was likely just still healing pains and sent home.
I still had severe pain for the next week but started to feel better. So I decided I was well enough to start my final teaching practical (which started 4 weeks after the appendix surgery). 2 and a half days into it I was feeling very unwell again and starting to have abdo pain again and I ended up collapsing in class.
At this point I went back to the doctors again. My doctor is fantastic and consulted with other doctors right away about my case and last week I was told they think I have some form of IBD, they suspect crohn's. I have an appointment tomorrow to get specialist referals to have the diagnosis confirmed.
I've been reading a few posts but my symptom's seem to differ from the norm of crohn's.
I've had:
- Severe abdo pain (mostly lower right but with some higher left)
- Constipation
- Blood in Stools
- Mucus in Stools
- Extreme Nausea/ Occasional Vomiting
- Tiredness
- Weightloss
- Fevers
- Constant Headaches
So far all of the tests including the CT and bloods are normal (except for an extremely high inflamation count. The norm is 5 whereas all of my blood tests have been between 35 - 80 and even as high as 98 right before my appendix surgery). So whatever is wrong is doing a bloody good job at hiding!
The past few days have been pretty bad. I've actually had to drop out of my teaching practical because I simply can't do it with the pain I'm in.
Obviously this is only a suspected case of crohn's but because I dont have the usual symptoms I was wondering if anyone else has a similar kind of story to me?
Nicole
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