Crohn's Symptoms

Since CD can be located anywhere in the GI tract, symptoms can vary. On the whole however, they often include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and not surprisingly, weight loss and lack of energy.

Crohn’s disease is a chronic (lifelong) illness. People who have CD will experience periods of acute flare-ups, when their symptoms are active and other times when their symptoms go into remission. The average risk of a flare-up in any one year is approximately 30%.
In 25% of those with CD, perianal disease may also develop. “Peri” means “around” – therefore perianal disease is located “around the anus”.

Specifically this means that a person could develop:

• painful, swollen skin tags (that appear to be haemhorrhoids but are not)
• abscesses (bags of pus created inside the body as a result of infection)
• fistulas (infections that have tunneled from the abscess to a hollow organ such as the rectum or vagina)

-CCFC

Crohn's Facts

Did you know...

Crohn’s disease (CD) is named after the doctor who first described it in 1932. (Since he did not have the disease itself, it is sometimes more accurately called Crohn disease).
The inflammation from CD can strike anywhere in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, from mouth to anus, but is usually located in the lower part of the small bowel and the upper end of the colon (like me!!)Patches of inflammation are interspersed between healthy portions of the gut, and can penetrate the intestinal layers from inner to outer lining.
CD can also affect the mesentery, which is the network of tissue that holds the small bowel to the abdomen and contains the main intestinal blood vessels and lymph glands.

-CCFC

Crohnie "T"

My new t-shirt arrived today!!

A Crohnie Bike...??

 

 

LOL !!!!

I think it's funny that it's actually locked up....

I mean, who would steal it?!

You Might Be A Crohnie If....

If you can still fit in your jeans from Highschool....
you might be a Crohnie




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Remicade : Day 197

Well lets hope changing my Remicade treatment will help my abscesses.  I just had my infusion after 7 weeks instead of 8 and my next infusion will be at the 6 week mark.  One abscess is tollerable, two is bothersome, but when there are three....it's just a pain in the ass!
One has gone (?) and one is on the way out (after getting it lanced), but the third is intramuscular, sooooo fingers crossed.
Going to relax now....sure takes alot out of you

Crohnie Quote Of The Day

I can't count how many times I've felt like this, especially when there is a flareup


“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”




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Starting a Support Group

A fellow Crohnie I met on Twitter and I want to start up a support group for fellow Crohnie's here in BC, specifically the Lower Mainland.
We were thinking about getting together and talk, support each other, exchange experiences, laugh, have some fun, maybe wipe some tears....who knows!

Interested...??

send me an email and we'll get acquainted....

crohnieisland@yahoo.ca

or leave a comment here

Let's Connect! 

You Might Be A Crohnie If....

If you know exactly how much intestine you have........left....
you might be a Crohnie

If hearing the phrase "you're so skinny, you should eat something" makes you want to scream....
you might be a Crohnie

If you could bottle your disease and sell it as the new celebrity diet and make millions....
you might be a Crohnie

You Might Be A Crohnie If....

If you can produce enough gas to power a small rocket....
you might be a Crohnie

If hanging out at the hospital on a Friday night is your idea of fun....
you might be a Crohnie

If there are more holes in you than a dead gangster....
you might be a Crohnie