IBD causing abscess in pelvis

Hi this is a quick update on my previous post. To recap, after having agonising stomach cramps - so bad i ended up in A & E (have had milder versions before for the last 2 years), inflammation that moved through to bowels and the into pelvis. Lost 5 kg in 4 weeks, was incontinent for 2 days diarrhoea so bad. Was in a lot of pain for 4 weeks, then an MRI scan shown a 6cm abscess next to my right ovary. Mri scan also showed bowel thickening. Doctors think it is likely to be caused/ secondary to a form of IBD -so basically inflammation moved through to pelvis and caused the abscess there. Has anyone else experienced this? Usually abscesses in pelvis are cause by pelvic inflammatory disease from an STI- but my STI results were negative- (I knew they would be), and so doctors think most likely from IBD- possibly Crohns.

Am still waiting to see a Gastronomist inflammatory bowel disease specialist (NHS appointment in January) and get a colonoscopy for a diagnosis.

Also I saw a nutritional therapist recommended by a friend of mine recently, she put me on the elimination diet to see if I had allergies or if anything was making the symptoms worse, but I came off it as I was feeling very week after already loosing so much weight. Also currently raw veg , nuts and pulses do not agree with me at the moment (so was not much to eat on the elimination diet, where you have to give up dairy, sugar, gluten, eggs, soya, corn, caffeine and alcohol-or the one she recommend I had to...). Anyone else had experience of the elimination diets- surely can't be good, after a bad flare up, where one may already be nutrient deficient etc? Thanks. 😃

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