Hello! I've promised a quick one so I'll try keep my little story brief! I've been mooching on here for about two weeks and it's so useful, so thank you.
I am a 23 year old female who, until recently of course, had no gastro issues at all.
26th of nov 2013 I had a meal at my parents and made my way back to my apartment. Nothing funny or different about the meal, but started to feel 'not right' around midnight. Queue 3 hours of vomiting, sweating, shaking....then a huge pain in my ribs and my shoulder blade, followed by more vomiting until I could not bare it anymore. 6am I was in A&e and on morphine (thankfully!). To cut it short like I promised, they suspected gallstones but ultrasound did not find anything. I was discharged and told to come back in 3 months.
Christmas came and went, I was in agony everyday. My pain threshold is high, stupidly so I think at times. So I went to see a Gi surgeon (who had treated my sister previously), I had a hida scan which showed my gallbladder did not function fully but I was sent to a medical Gi to rule out any other underlying causes before they whipped the little begger (my gallbladder) out. Endoscopy clear, barium meal showed small bowel inflammation and colonoscopy confirmed crohns in the ileum. It was like a nightmare (as I'm sure you all know the feeling too well....).
So as of last Monday (the date of my colonoscopy) I have been on budnsoside and mebreverine and I have little joy from it. I've never had diarrhoea, but from Tuesday my Bm's have been irregular...
So if anyone can shed any light on this story....
Is the 'episode' I had in November a flare up? I feel like I've never recovered from it!
What could the constipation be from? Lord knows my backside is telling me to go, I run to the toilet and nothing! I've been twice in 6 days.
I've suffered in the last few years from kidney infections, could this be related to the crohns?
Thanks so much for any help you can throw my way, but I'm really just here to say hello!
I am a 23 year old female who, until recently of course, had no gastro issues at all.
26th of nov 2013 I had a meal at my parents and made my way back to my apartment. Nothing funny or different about the meal, but started to feel 'not right' around midnight. Queue 3 hours of vomiting, sweating, shaking....then a huge pain in my ribs and my shoulder blade, followed by more vomiting until I could not bare it anymore. 6am I was in A&e and on morphine (thankfully!). To cut it short like I promised, they suspected gallstones but ultrasound did not find anything. I was discharged and told to come back in 3 months.
Christmas came and went, I was in agony everyday. My pain threshold is high, stupidly so I think at times. So I went to see a Gi surgeon (who had treated my sister previously), I had a hida scan which showed my gallbladder did not function fully but I was sent to a medical Gi to rule out any other underlying causes before they whipped the little begger (my gallbladder) out. Endoscopy clear, barium meal showed small bowel inflammation and colonoscopy confirmed crohns in the ileum. It was like a nightmare (as I'm sure you all know the feeling too well....).
So as of last Monday (the date of my colonoscopy) I have been on budnsoside and mebreverine and I have little joy from it. I've never had diarrhoea, but from Tuesday my Bm's have been irregular...
So if anyone can shed any light on this story....
Is the 'episode' I had in November a flare up? I feel like I've never recovered from it!
What could the constipation be from? Lord knows my backside is telling me to go, I run to the toilet and nothing! I've been twice in 6 days.
I've suffered in the last few years from kidney infections, could this be related to the crohns?
Thanks so much for any help you can throw my way, but I'm really just here to say hello!