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I haven’t been around for a while because once again, illness snuck up on me and knocked me for a loop. One major thing I have learned through this flare is the importance of communicating with my doctor about my crohn’s disease. It’s so easy to “forget” something during a 15 minute appointment… and forgetting
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I don’t know why I seem to be so unable to grasp the pain involved with crohn’s disease. For some reason, I keep thinking that “this time”, I will get better. Honestly, I think deep down, I believe one of these times, medicine or treatments are going to actually make my crohn’s disease “go away”.
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Getting a colonoscopy to diagnose my Crohn’s Disease was probably one of the singly most horrendous things I’ve had to do. A colonoscopy is a test done using a small camera on the end of a flexible tube about the size of an adult figure to look at the large colon and small bowel. If
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At 37 years old, and an otherwise healthy wife and mom of 4, I was officially diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. Over all, it was simple to diagnose, it was just a matter of my not having insurance and suffering for several months before my body finally said, “Listen, you must do something and do it
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