Bowel problems

Betty Swallox:

matizerSCANIAR480:

bigtruck:

matizerSCANIAR480:
Im not a driver but i go with my dad loads, and the specialist doctors think ive got crohns :frowning: i had to have my MRI scan yesterday to try and help find out for sure, but ive been this ill for 4 or 5 months now!

Hope your keeping better young man I had a bowel op a few weeks back and have another one after Christmas.

Thanks, i ended up in hospital for a week to help me recover and they’ve said its crohns, so im on steroids for the next few weeks then move onto another drug, which i’ll be on for a minimum of five years, hope all your operations go well.

My eldest lad was diagnosed with Crohns when he was 17, about 5 years ago, it’s a nasty little disease, you have my sympathy.

The steroids will hopefully control the disease & allow you to function more normally, however, it is a hit & miss affair, my lad was on them for nearly a year but they didn’t really work so eventually he had an operation to remove infected parts of his intestines.

Now he’s in good health, he needed a 2nd operation about 3 years ago, but he recovered from that quite quickly, nowadays he’s free from pain & continual bouts of diarrhoea. He’s even taken up playing football in a local league with his mates again.

Hopefully things work out for you. If you’re still having problems then look at your diet, certain foods are known to irritate the bowels in those with Crohn’s, by cutting out certain foodstuffs could ease your suffering a bit. Good luck.

Thanks, im 17 now and apparently this is the most common age to get it or thereabouts, ive had the camera’s done and they’ve said its not bad enough to require surgery, ive got it in both my large and small intestine but luckily ive not got diarrhoea or anything like that, i just get horrific stomach pains and nausea, but the tablets im taking are controlling it well enough at the moment, slowly coming off my steroids again! Last time i came off them, it was done to quick and i ended up with depression and getting ill again but im much better now cheers, ive cut out all the foods that are high in fibre which is what i was told to do by my specialist doctor so everythings rosey at the moment (touches wood). :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: