Hi, I have decided it’s about time I shared my story considering I’ve leeched off this forum for the last year.
So Just over a year ago in my third year of college while starting to study and complete assignments for my final year exams I started get symptoms such as extreme fatigue, started losing a lot of weight and my amount of trips to the bathroom largely increased and also started to get bad fevers.
This led me to getting my bloods done at my GP which came back the day after I finished my last exam with an elevated WBC and a slightly low HB count.
I was immediately admitted to hospital where a CT scan was performed on my stomach when I mentioned the increase in bowel movements along with other symptoms.
This came back with inflammation in the terminal ileum and led to me being diagnosed with crohn's disease.
I was discharged from hospital and was put on budesonide (entocort).
Obviously I was anxious to what exactly crohns was so ended up reading a lot online which lead to a lot of dooms day stories, I also read a lot on this forum and found a lot of success and horror stories.
While on the entocort 9mg I done OK for a few months and then started getting strong pains in my stomach, this lead to being hospitalised with two abscesses after another CT scan for a week and out on flagyl and Augmentin for 3 months.
I was then started on 6mp 50mg in December.
Since leaving hospital last October I was after losing 13 kg which was a lot since I have an athletic build and to a lot of training the loss of weight certainly did not suite me.
Now 1 year later I am happy to say I have regained all my weight and have more energy than I ever had I also started a new job in IT and going to start a master degree by night next year.
Now my social life was affected for a few months while on flagly and while generally run down, but now I am enjoying nights out, holidays and training like every other young male which I no longer take for granted.
Just taught id share my experience and hopefully it will encourage anyone recently diagnosed and worried or even someone who’s going through a rough patch, I know when I was diagnosed last year and worried it helped greatly reading success stories and talking to people my own age with some form of IBD.
So if anyone wants to ask anything or even just want a chat don't hesitate to contact me.
(Which I definitely found helps to talk to someone who is in the same boat as me)
Best of Luck
So Just over a year ago in my third year of college while starting to study and complete assignments for my final year exams I started get symptoms such as extreme fatigue, started losing a lot of weight and my amount of trips to the bathroom largely increased and also started to get bad fevers.
This led me to getting my bloods done at my GP which came back the day after I finished my last exam with an elevated WBC and a slightly low HB count.
I was immediately admitted to hospital where a CT scan was performed on my stomach when I mentioned the increase in bowel movements along with other symptoms.
This came back with inflammation in the terminal ileum and led to me being diagnosed with crohn's disease.
I was discharged from hospital and was put on budesonide (entocort).
Obviously I was anxious to what exactly crohns was so ended up reading a lot online which lead to a lot of dooms day stories, I also read a lot on this forum and found a lot of success and horror stories.
While on the entocort 9mg I done OK for a few months and then started getting strong pains in my stomach, this lead to being hospitalised with two abscesses after another CT scan for a week and out on flagyl and Augmentin for 3 months.
I was then started on 6mp 50mg in December.
Since leaving hospital last October I was after losing 13 kg which was a lot since I have an athletic build and to a lot of training the loss of weight certainly did not suite me.
Now 1 year later I am happy to say I have regained all my weight and have more energy than I ever had I also started a new job in IT and going to start a master degree by night next year.
Now my social life was affected for a few months while on flagly and while generally run down, but now I am enjoying nights out, holidays and training like every other young male which I no longer take for granted.
Just taught id share my experience and hopefully it will encourage anyone recently diagnosed and worried or even someone who’s going through a rough patch, I know when I was diagnosed last year and worried it helped greatly reading success stories and talking to people my own age with some form of IBD.
So if anyone wants to ask anything or even just want a chat don't hesitate to contact me.
(Which I definitely found helps to talk to someone who is in the same boat as me)
Best of Luck