CharAnn74
07-31-2004, 05:30 AM
Last year I was very sick from June to October with colon problems.In early June I went to a Gi for occasional bleeding, and bm problems, and pain.He did a scope and Dx'ed IBS, with non-bleeding internal hemmies.
3 weeks later I was in horrible pain most of the time, and ended up being hospitilized 3 times during that 4 month time, with very dark bloody diarrhea and horredous abdominal pain.
They kept saying I had ischemic colitis, but it kept happening and they could not figure out why.I had 17 inches of ulcers in my colon!! They ruled out Crohns and Ulcerative Colitis by biopsies,and bloodwork.
I finally got fed up and asked for a refferal to a new GI after my last hospitilization.He looked at the biopsy reports from the other GI, and said it looked like an infection.He did a scope shortly there after, and found all the ulcers healed up, with some minor inflammation in the rectum.HE DX that it was infectious colitis,that cleared up on it's own.
I was MAD! :cussing:
I suffered for 4 months with something that could have been treated.I think this lowered my immune system alot.
Right before my last hosp stay I started having muscle aches and pains all over.(Turned out to be Fibromyalgia)
Then shortly thereafter when my colon healed, I started having bladder pain.I had already been dx with an over-active bladder when I was a teenager.SO I have always suffered with freq/urgency/leakage.But no pain.I kept going to the Dr,ER, Immediate cares etc....thinking for sure I kept having a UTI, no bacteria, just blood,a few times they put me on anti-biotics with no relief.
I thought I was losing my mind, I was in so much pain for no reason from what they was saying, one Dr told me it was GERD !?!?! :loco:
Finally in Jan of this yr they sent me to a uro doc.She put me on Detrol for my 'over active bladder' It made things worse for me, could not pee, and in more pain.I stopped it, and they finally decided in April to do a hydro, and I got my dx.
I think the fact that my immune system was a mess from the infection, that it caused my IC, and my FM.Plus ever since then I have been sick on and off the past yr with other things, like chronic sinus infections and bronchitis.
I had a GI bleeding episode in March also, and they found nothing,GI guessed it was the NSAID'S I was on for FM.Not sure if I believe that since this time it was bright red bloody diarrhea, and upper GI bleeding would be dark.
Quit taking NSAID's up until here recently.I am careful though what I take, and not take very many.An advil here and there.They put me on Toradol after my last distention last week, and it tore up my gut immediately, got my IBS going bad.So I stopped it and it cleared up.
Anyways, this is my theory on what caused mine.It just seems like to much of a coincedence, that my body started falling apart soon thereafter.
:dizzy:
3 weeks later I was in horrible pain most of the time, and ended up being hospitilized 3 times during that 4 month time, with very dark bloody diarrhea and horredous abdominal pain.
They kept saying I had ischemic colitis, but it kept happening and they could not figure out why.I had 17 inches of ulcers in my colon!! They ruled out Crohns and Ulcerative Colitis by biopsies,and bloodwork.
I finally got fed up and asked for a refferal to a new GI after my last hospitilization.He looked at the biopsy reports from the other GI, and said it looked like an infection.He did a scope shortly there after, and found all the ulcers healed up, with some minor inflammation in the rectum.HE DX that it was infectious colitis,that cleared up on it's own.
I was MAD! :cussing:
I suffered for 4 months with something that could have been treated.I think this lowered my immune system alot.
Right before my last hosp stay I started having muscle aches and pains all over.(Turned out to be Fibromyalgia)
Then shortly thereafter when my colon healed, I started having bladder pain.I had already been dx with an over-active bladder when I was a teenager.SO I have always suffered with freq/urgency/leakage.But no pain.I kept going to the Dr,ER, Immediate cares etc....thinking for sure I kept having a UTI, no bacteria, just blood,a few times they put me on anti-biotics with no relief.
I thought I was losing my mind, I was in so much pain for no reason from what they was saying, one Dr told me it was GERD !?!?! :loco:
Finally in Jan of this yr they sent me to a uro doc.She put me on Detrol for my 'over active bladder' It made things worse for me, could not pee, and in more pain.I stopped it, and they finally decided in April to do a hydro, and I got my dx.
I think the fact that my immune system was a mess from the infection, that it caused my IC, and my FM.Plus ever since then I have been sick on and off the past yr with other things, like chronic sinus infections and bronchitis.
I had a GI bleeding episode in March also, and they found nothing,GI guessed it was the NSAID'S I was on for FM.Not sure if I believe that since this time it was bright red bloody diarrhea, and upper GI bleeding would be dark.
Quit taking NSAID's up until here recently.I am careful though what I take, and not take very many.An advil here and there.They put me on Toradol after my last distention last week, and it tore up my gut immediately, got my IBS going bad.So I stopped it and it cleared up.
Anyways, this is my theory on what caused mine.It just seems like to much of a coincedence, that my body started falling apart soon thereafter.
:dizzy: