Hello forum,
I'm new here and I wanted to introduce myself and possibly find some advice dealing with the symptoms of what is most likely Crohn's disease. My girlfriend is in her early 20s, and has just encountered what seems to be a full-on flare up. She has had tummy troubles her whole life, but never to this extent.
Aching body all over, her joints hurt, stomach pain, blood in stool.... It's starting to take its toll... making it very difficult for her to go in to work, and spending a lot of time in bed.
It just feels so unfair. She just moved in with me after we had been dating long distance for 3 years, and then almost immediately we encounter a flare up. I see her positive energy just sapped out of her, and it makes me feel like our youth is being stolen away by this disease, and that we'll never get this time back, wasted on suffering and stress.
She is still not officially diagnosed, but has some procedures next week that will hopefully get her diagnosed so she can start some sort of treatment. I just hope her symptoms aren't signs of permanent damage and that treatment will help her get into remission.
It's just really hard trying to be a supportive partner when my own life is overwhelming most of the time. I'm still in college and not really established in life so this whole situation is totally throwing us off our track.
I'm new here and I wanted to introduce myself and possibly find some advice dealing with the symptoms of what is most likely Crohn's disease. My girlfriend is in her early 20s, and has just encountered what seems to be a full-on flare up. She has had tummy troubles her whole life, but never to this extent.
Aching body all over, her joints hurt, stomach pain, blood in stool.... It's starting to take its toll... making it very difficult for her to go in to work, and spending a lot of time in bed.
It just feels so unfair. She just moved in with me after we had been dating long distance for 3 years, and then almost immediately we encounter a flare up. I see her positive energy just sapped out of her, and it makes me feel like our youth is being stolen away by this disease, and that we'll never get this time back, wasted on suffering and stress.
She is still not officially diagnosed, but has some procedures next week that will hopefully get her diagnosed so she can start some sort of treatment. I just hope her symptoms aren't signs of permanent damage and that treatment will help her get into remission.
It's just really hard trying to be a supportive partner when my own life is overwhelming most of the time. I'm still in college and not really established in life so this whole situation is totally throwing us off our track.