Posted 6/22/2011 3:01 PM (GMT 0)
Back in 1970 I experienced low back ache, and/or tailbone ache, sometimes it was almost like a buzzing or painful tingling type of ache in one area or the other.
It turned out to be an infected rectal crypt, believe it or not. A digital rectal exam sent me thru the roof due to pain! I would have glady killed the surgeon the day he did THAT exam!!!!! I had to have a rectal cryptectomy to get any relief.
That was 5 years before actual Crohn's symptoms emerged in mid-1975.
Altho for about 2 years I had a job that I LOVED that had a LOT of pressure/stress at a particular time each night. I THOUGHT I thrived on that pressure - but I began experiencing SEVERE abdominal spasms at that time each night. One night so bad it doubled me over so quickly and severely my face hit the table shelf and I got a bloody nose out of it to boot. I bid off that schedule and had no more problems or any hint of problems until that infected rectal crypt. Any relationship between the two??? Who knows. I look back and wonder now.
Then in 1973 I had a tubal ligation and in the process the surgeon insisted on removing my perfectly healthy appendix as well.
Now, when we read where removal of the appendix seems to provide some protection against Ulcerative colitis but to raise the risk of Crohn's disease I have to wonder ......
Ah well, what is done is done and can't be undone.