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Newly Diagnosed with Crohn's Disease

swan19 · 2011-09-10 07:32:24

Hi everybody im new to boards. I have just been diagnosed with Crohn's. I'm 23 and reading other posts i don't think i have it as bad as i thought. It started in Jan where i had a very large peri anal abscess that had to be removed...i then had a long wait for a colonoscopy and when the day finally came..i woke up during…

10-09-2011 7:32am

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swan19

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Hi everybody im new to boards. I have just been diagnosed with Crohn's. I'm 23 and reading other posts i don't think i have it as bad as i thought.

It started in Jan where i had a very large peri anal abscess that had to be removed...i then had a long wait for a colonoscopy and when the day finally came..i woke up during it because the sedative wasn't strong enough and my inflammation was pretty bad...so had to come back in on the thursday to have it done under general anesthetic..they found a fistula during it and removed it...they took biopsies and i got my results on tuesday...

so its official...I have Crohn's..pretty upset about it and feel kinda lost regards what foods to avoid..feel like the doc didn't tell me much other than its down to the individual...i am low in B12 and blood folate..so im on a multi vitamin...folic acid..dipentum twice a day and now steroids for the nxt 3 months starting off at 30 mg reducing every week down to 5...

is there anybody out there who is a smoker and has crohns..iv been warned to giv them up but finding it hard!!! Also is Alcohol a trigger for flare-ups??? The only thing that i noticed i can't eat are white rolls!! I find it hard to pin down what causes pain because i was so used to it and thought it was normal..if that makes any sense.

Do ye think its a good idea to go to a dietitian? Sorry for the long post..i'm just feelin lost at the moment...and its hard to talk about it to people who don't have it or know what its like..thats why i joined here to learn from people who are going through it aswell.

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