Crohn's or not? Anyone have a similar experience? Appreciate any insight...
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Hello,
I'm a healthy 42 yo male who's lived with IBS for >10 years But recently my situation changed. My new symptoms started about a month ago with what I presumed was an intestinal infection (fever, diarrhea for a day). Stool cultures were negative. Since then I've had pretty much constant abdominal pains that are mild, occasional cramps and are located mostly left lower, lower and right lower. Lots of churning and gurgling too. My stools are frequent, mushy but have never been bloody and the diarrhea has very much improved. My appetite is poor and I have trouble sleeping due to churning / gurgling and cramps. Occasionally I've woken up in the middle of the night to have a BM. Had a colonoscopy recently that showed a couple areas in my colon and terminal ileum of "focal, mildly active inflammation and cyptitis". Pathologist said "not characteristic of Crohn's but cannot rule it out". GI doc is not convinced it's Crohn's, thinks it's more likely a post infectious inflammation that will eventually calm down. Plan is to wait a few months and see what happens. Anyone else have a similar experience? Did your symptoms get better with time or did you end up on treatment / diagnosed with Crohn's?
Thanks for any insight!
?Max
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Have you changed your diet?
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Thanks for your reply. Do you have symptoms that sometimes keep you up at night? My cramps and gurgling wake me almost nightly. Did you have a colonoscopy? My concern is that my colonoscopy showed inflammation on the biopsy ( granted, it was acute inflammation and they said that it didn’t exactly look like Crohn’s).
And I’m in the process of starting to log my diet and try to figure out which foods are triggers.
Thanks again for the reply. Glad to hear that your symptoms are getting better.
Max
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