Hello Everyone.
This is my story in a nutshell..
34 year old male. Diagnosed with Crohns at 19 years old. They tested a ton of medications on me for a couple years. Resection Surgery at 21 years old. This pretty much had me in remission for about 10 years. I didn’t take any medicine during this time. By remission I mean not a lot of pain, no major blockages… but I did suffer from diarrhea.
At 31 years old extremely painful flair ups started to happen again. I sought out a GI doctor. Was prescribed entocort and imuran. The next couple years kept spiraling downward with weight loss and more and more pain.
I asked my Dr for surgery last year. He was hesitant and upped instead put me on prednisone. 3 weeks later I crashed hard… couldn’t breath, painfull stomache spasms… my wife dragged me to the ER.
3 days later I was having surgery. A Resection. 3 Days later the resection failed and I went septic. I was shipped to a different hospital and they performed an emergency surgery and I woke up with an illeostomy bag.
Almost a year has passed and I am going into surgery in 3 weeks for an illeostomy takedown.
I am scared nervous but excited to give it a go.
I have a wife, 2 children and one on the way. I want to be around a long time for them.
Thanks for reading.
This is my story in a nutshell..
34 year old male. Diagnosed with Crohns at 19 years old. They tested a ton of medications on me for a couple years. Resection Surgery at 21 years old. This pretty much had me in remission for about 10 years. I didn’t take any medicine during this time. By remission I mean not a lot of pain, no major blockages… but I did suffer from diarrhea.
At 31 years old extremely painful flair ups started to happen again. I sought out a GI doctor. Was prescribed entocort and imuran. The next couple years kept spiraling downward with weight loss and more and more pain.
I asked my Dr for surgery last year. He was hesitant and upped instead put me on prednisone. 3 weeks later I crashed hard… couldn’t breath, painfull stomache spasms… my wife dragged me to the ER.
3 days later I was having surgery. A Resection. 3 Days later the resection failed and I went septic. I was shipped to a different hospital and they performed an emergency surgery and I woke up with an illeostomy bag.
Almost a year has passed and I am going into surgery in 3 weeks for an illeostomy takedown.
I am scared nervous but excited to give it a go.
I have a wife, 2 children and one on the way. I want to be around a long time for them.
Thanks for reading.