Big people with Crohn's

Fongers06

I read that post and was flabbergasted at that poster's statement - it tee'd me off - and you should ignore it...
that's like saying you breath oxygen so you must not be sick
pah!

I've been "in remission" for 6 years
does that mean I don't have crohn's? NO

it means I take my meds, guard what I eat (that's every single thing I put in my yap), drug myself to sleep well, do everything I can to reduce my stress levels (even if that means going to bed at 5pm cos I work for a lunatic) and still try my best to have some sort of quality of life around all that...in spite of the complications I have like almost complete hair loss and huge weight gain and eye problems...

I'm count myself lucky - but I still have crohn's
and no one can tell me that I don't....or that my crohn's is not as "bad" as anyone else's
that's just childish and judgmental and I aspire every day to not be like that!

Fongers,
You have to take some people's words with a grain of salt. Even if they have had this disease for longer then I have been alive doesn't mean they know everything. In fact I hope you read my words after that poster's post and that is why I referred you to this post. Just because one are big does not mean one do not have a severe case of crohns.

I have never been a smaller person. At 5'6" I averaged about went from 165 after high school to 225 after having my two kids. A few years before I was diagnosed I lost a bunch of weight for reasons that I didn't compeltly understand. I went though my divorce, had a lot of family members with health issues, my sons autism diagnoses, you get the idea. I really chalked most of it up to stress and the lack of wanting to eat due to it. I can look back now of course and see that I was having increasing issues with Crohns. I went down to 167 and felt like crap. My weight started going back up slowly and when in Jan 07 I got extremely sick. I missed three weeks of work and my doc said it was a combo of the flu, ibs and stress. Over the next year I gainned a bit more and was back to my 190 range by Jan. 08 when I was officially declared a crohns patient. Since then I have been on all the crohns medications and my weight is higher than it has ever been at 247. My GI doesn't say anything bad about this....I don't really understand why. My family doctor says I need to get back to that 190 range since that is where I feel the best. However, neither of them is telling me how to work on the issue.

WyzWmn...my family doctor is concerned about my family history. My dad has had a heart attack and 10 years later a triple bypass and valve replacment (the heart doc said he wouldn't have made it if he would have had a full blown heart attack). It does bother me that he thinks since my BM's are not as severe that I am eating more. In lamest terms, my stomach and bowels still hurt when I eat too much or certain foods....so no I am not!! As far as dietians go...I haven't had much luck with them. I am told high fiber, no low fiber, eat dairy for calcium, no dairy for crohnies, etc... My sister who is insulin dependant diabetic is told to eat fruit. It is like HUH? A piece of fruit raises blood sugar. I think they can get a bum rap because the "generic" guidelines are just that, generic. It is so hard to tell what works for one and not another. Your dietian says eat fruit and veggies. I normally can handle veggies ok, however fruit makes my stomach hurt most of the time.