new- please help!

I've been having serious stomach issues for some time now. I've been to the emergency room several times in the past few years to little avail. A couple years ago I started to lose my appetite and noticed blood whenever I wiped after a bowel movement. I feel sick after I eat, and that has gotten much worse in the past couple of months. In the last month I started having severe diarrhea and bloating, as well as serious pain in my right side of my abdomen. This weekend when I went to the emergency room they said I had fecal impaction, which doesn't make a lot of sense with all the diarrhea. They prescribed me sorbitol. This made the bloating and pain 10x worse. I've never seen a gastro, but when I told them all this theygave me an appointment (one month away was the best they could do) and prescribed me medicine they said was similar to colonoscopy prep and said if I'm not better after that they'd do a colonoscopy. I'm just wondering if this sounds familiar or if anyone has ideas or advice? I can't live like this, I've been bed\bathroom ridden for weeks. Any help would be appreciated!

I could possibly, but the bleeding has been 4+ years so I would think that its something else.

The very first thing my family doctor did was send me for an ultra sound. In that appointment the nurse or attendant asked me if I had Crohns. She seen right away I had a thickening in one spot of my intestine.

Then I was sent to a near by hospital that did colonoscopy's. They didn't look far enough into my small bowel to see the Crohns. I went to a specialist in Toronto and he confirmed it.

My family doctor put me on prednisone inbetween those two colonoscopy's. Which healed it up real good. But had to be weened off before I went to the specialist. So he could see the problem.

My advice to you is to start a diet that will help you. Like SCDiet. Stay away from foods that cause further damage.

Get a full blood work up done. Make sure your not deficient in any nutrients. Like iron or B12.

Make sure you cook all your veggies, and stay away from hard food like nuts. Even red meat can hurt you.

I lot of people here have problems with lactose or gluten.

Seems to me that people with Crohns get super sensitive to certain foods, even some natural foods. So beware.

Probiotics, vitamin D, and fish oil pills are a good supplements to start with.

And if you like, smoke or ingest some cannabis. I have my card. And after a week on it, I got a lot of my appetite back and some more energy.

I don't know what else to say. But I work 40 hours or more a week as a hydro lineman and I have energy, I don't use the cannabis at work but as soon as I get home....

Anyway, hope you find answers

I agree with gumby. See your PCP if you can in the meantime. He might be able to get you into someone sooner. The bleeding is an important symptom. Sometimes when a patient mentions bleeding, it can be overlooked because they think of hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoidal bleeding is usually bright red whereas bleeding farther up the tract will be darker.

I feel for you because it took me a lot of years to be taken seriously.